The Boot Inn, Willington and The Prescott Family of Cheshire [electronic resource]
2020
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This is the first real story I have attempted to write featuring my husband Roger’s side of the family. It is set in the delightful rural area of Delamere in Cheshire and centres on John and Martha PRESCOTT, Roger’s great-grandparents, and erstwhile licensees of the ‘Boot Inn’, Willington.I first heard about the ‘Boot Inn’ decades ago from Roger’s Uncle Bill who, unlike his younger sister Lucy, Roger’s mother, always had plenty of tales to tell of his happy childhood around Delamere. He even nostalgically named his first, and only, house: ‘Delamere’ when it was newly built in Saughall Massie at the time of his marriage in 1937.My initial research all those years ago at Cheshire Record Office, then housed at Chester Castle, using original parish registers and microfilmed census, together with field trips to the churchyards in Delamere, Kelsall and Tarvin produced an interesting if somewhat brief PRESCOTT family tree. However, last year my friend, Joan, was taken out for a celebratory meal by her son to one of his favourite restaurants and it turned out to be the ‘Boot Inn’, Willington! She had subsequently printed out the history of the ‘Boot Inn’ from the website to show me which naturally sparked a renewed interest in the story.At the end of the story, along with some relevant data, I have included Roger’s PRESCOTT Ancestry Chart together with Family Tree Charts of everyone I have discovered related to them, to date. It has taken quite a while to get to this stage and I have side tracked on many an occasion but, if like most of us, you view life in the countryside through rose tinted spectacles then some parts of this story may make you think again.Thanks Joan for your help and enthusiasm and thanks, as ever, Roger for printing and binding the end result.I hope you enjoy reading it.Helen M. GillNovemberI first heard about the ‘Boot Inn’ decades ago from Roger’s Uncle Bill who, unlike his younger sister Lucy, Roger’s mother, always had plenty of tales to tell of his happy childhood around Delamere. He even nostalgically named his first, and only, house: ‘Delamere’ when it was newly built in Saughall Massie at the time of his marriage in 1937.My initial research all those years ago at Cheshire Record Office, then housed at Chester Castle, using original parish registers and microfilmed census, together with field trips to the churchyards in Delamere, Kelsall and Tarvin produced an interesting if somewhat brief PRESCOTT family tree. However, last year my friend, Joan, was taken out for a celebratory meal by her son to one of his favourite restaurants and it turned out to be the ‘Boot Inn’, Willington! She had subsequently printed out the history of the ‘Boot Inn’ from the website to show me which naturally sparked a renewed interest in the story.At the end of the story, along with some relevant data, I have included Roger’s PRESCOTT Ancestry Chart together with Family Tree Charts of everyone I have discovered related to them, to date. It has taken quite a while to get to this stage and I have side tracked on many an occasion but, if like most of us, you view life in the countryside through rose tinted spectacles then some parts of this story may make you think again.Thanks Joan for your help and enthusiasm and thanks, as ever, Roger for printing and binding the end result.I hope you enjoy reading it.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Wirral Libraries, 2020
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
2221368238371
Language:
English
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BRN:
3900497
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