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« on: Tuesday 29 November 11 08:17 GMT (UK) »
I am researching Walthews and allied families.
I am not sure of the Anne reflected above, but the molyneux family is long associated with the walthews.
They come out of the Wigan area predominantly, though there are pockets in Warwick/staffordshire and around London.
The further south you go, the more the name is spelled WALTHO or WATHOE, but there appears to be some links.
I have been trying to link the William Walthew family from Anglesey back to either the Lancashire or Cheshire families.
The Lancashire families are related to the Syers, the Hollands, The Molyneux the markland, among others. In lancashire the family seems to originate in the Wigan area about 1550, and earlier than that a group in Kirkham in the 1515's.
In Cheshire there are records around Nantwich from 1515 , moving to Chester by the later 1500's.
The Walthews in London are derived from the Wigan Walthews, but also seem to be linked to the Walthews from Stowe.
The early spelling is often phonetic, and varies from Walthewe to Walthooe for the same person in different records.
There are Walthews around sefton and Huyton about the mid 1700's and there is an anne daughter of Roger, but that is all I have