This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/698.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Mike, There are pedigrees for the Hollinshead family Booth, Omerod, who give the early part of the Hollinshead tree. The Hollinsheads originated in Cheshire and spread from there the earliest mention is a Hugh Hollinshead alias Hollyns 1184 that maybe Hollynshed am not using my computer at the moment as it's down. I can sen you a gedcom file on it if you want, send an email to stephenhollinshead@hotmail.com If I remember correctly one of my line's branches lived in Stockport, but I think the silk weavers were a different branch from Macclesfield. Stephen