Just a quick note from a Stretch ex-pat now half a world away from his home county of Cheshire. Just joined but active elsewhere.
My research is mostly online because I'm so far away, but I still have too much to assimilate and too little time to do it ...
As well as my own, Cheshire surnames I'm looking at include Anderson, Bennett/Bennet, Brammell, Dodd, Fowles, Wainwright in the east... Nantwich, Over to Northwich and on to Macclesfield, Whaley Bridge/Manchester etc.
Most other names on the other trunk of the tree are in Liverpool, Yorks, Lincs, Norfolk, etc.