Trivia
St Wallburge's has the second or third highest spire in England and in the nineties a certain Bolton Steeplejack namely Fred Dibner spent a few weeks repairing the spire. I saw him perched at the top of the spire one day, rather him than me that is for sure.
It was the last spire Fred worked on. 2004? Mentioned in article about the church on "Lancashire Past" website.
Btw Biggles, I see you have Lamb and Hardman among your surnames. My Lambs went to live in booming Preston almost 200 years ago. They were stonemasons so may have worked on, in or near churches. Ellen Hardman was my earliest ancestor in the direct female line, born 1760s. Mother of 10. One of her daughters + husband & children moved to Preston.
My Lamb family lived in and around Cockerham for 300 years hence the St Michaels Church records were invaluable for piecing the tree together.
In the tree there is a Jane Hardman and Jane Lamb, they married and Jane Hardman became Jane Lamb and Jane Lamb became Jane I have not found any interbreeding but going sideways can be problematic with so many Thomas, William, Richard, Jane, and Elizabeth Lamb’s in the records.
As far as I can tell the furthest back Lamb was from Lancaster but that is tentative at best.
