This is the history of an obscure family living on the Lancashire-Yorkshire borders, a history more genealogical than biographical because nothing is recorded of many of its members but the occasions of their baptisms, marriages and burials, and even these details are not always complete. This scarcity of information has greatly complicated Roger Pye’s task and inevitably there has arisen the possibility of confusion of identity in a number of cases.
Following his research Roger compiled an interim edition but this was never published. More recently Roger’s brother, Anthony, resumed the research and prepared this publication.