« Reply #10 on: Friday 07 December 12 00:36 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lal, when I looked on Street View it looked like it might have been a small village but you think it covered a bigger area? I know that in the 1881c her husband had re-married and was living in School Lane, Skelmersdale. It would be interesting to look at maps of the area from that time. Kit
School Lane is still there now, it's part of 'old Skem' as it's known, i.e. the original township before the 1960s expansion. There are other 'School Lanes' in the Lathom district, but if it states Skelmersdale it will be the one near Neverstitch Road (note, not the one in Upholland, as that was very definitely not part of Skem back then, it was its own parish).
I suppose the district was named Lathom due to the status of Lathom Hall as a great estate. Lathom village was always small and scattered.
West Lancashire - Leatherbarrow, Hunter, Sherman, Formby, Caunce, Cookson, Wright, Finch, Roughley, Sutch, Almond, Parr, Lea, Smith, Wignal, Marsh, Lovelady
Liverpool - Cottam, Candeland, Stewart, Breen, Owens, Wiseman, Johnson, Cross
Cheshire - Monks, Candeland, Cottam
Co. Durham - Palmer, Adamson
Shropshire - Huffa
Wales - Owens. Ireland - Breen, Wiseman
