• William Heaton (1851-1920) left over £560,000 pounds when he died, according to a notice which appeared in The Times on March 3rd 1920.

10 Oct 2005

• A recent article in the Bolton Evening News has revealed the existence of a "Heaton family window", formerly owned by William Heaton and Sons and now in storage at Bolton Museum. The window features a coat of arms, apparently based on the one used by Richard Heaton in 1535, along with the family motto "Nec Temere Nec Timide".

30 Jan 2005

 

• The first entries from the 1891 census for Lancashire have been uploaded to FreeCEN and include 35 Heatons from the Rumworth area of Deane.

  http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

05 Dec 2004

 

• I've re-registered www.heatonroots.co.uk and plan to get missing pages back online in the near future.

01 Nov 2004

 

• I've let my domain name go and am restructuring the site. Many of the webpages won't be available in the meantime.

28 Mar 2004

 

• Joseph Heaton was born in Lowton on December 5th 1841 and was one of ten children of Thomas Heaton and Mary Bennett.

19 Feb 2004

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