Lancashire
15 September 2003
    
   Digging up My Roots in Lancashire

   

Above is the area of Fishwick and to the right is Fishwick Eyves, meaning, literally, the edge of Fishwick. This was the land granted to Nicholos de Ewyas around 1200. He built a manor here and changed his name to Eyves, which was later changed to Eaves. 

  

  

  
This is Hambleton, where my great grandmother Annie Eaves was born.
   

This is Caton, where my great grandfather
John Harling was born.

  

  

  
This is all that remains of the Thornton train station, where John Harling last worked in the UK.  If you look closely, you can see the edge of the station platform.  John worked here as a plate layer before immigrating to America in 1907.
   

The parish church in Thornton, Lancashire.

  

  

  
The Plough at Eaves, a local pub.
   

The Lancashire moors.

  

  

  
Cathy and David Eaves.  David is my seventh cousin twice removed on my paternal great grandmother's side.


From 'Full Circle':
     The Harling family has been in America for merely the last 100 or so years; the lands David introduced me to in Lancashire have been inhabited by portions of the Eaves family for the past 8 centuries, and it's difficult to describe how the weight of those years sink into you when you stand on a footpath that was there when the Norman's invaded and was, likely as not, walked on by people you're descended from . . .
  

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