Objectives
The Lawton History Group is an informal body established to foster interest in and research into the history of Church Lawton, Cheshire.

Contacts

History
Formerly Lawton Heritage Society (Formed 1993), Lawton History Group formed in 2001.

Membership
See Contacts above.

Membership Fees
None.

Publications
Lawton Chronicles Volumes 1,2 & 3 out of print, volumes 4&5 £3.50 each plus £1 postage.
Monumental Inscription of All Saints’ Church £8.00 plus £2 packing and postage.

Records
The archive is divided into the following sections:

• Documents
  This contains a wide variety of material : reports, printed articles, lists, work undertaken by group members, wills, booklets, copies of records held at the Cheshire Records Office, census returns. (Earliest record - Terrier dated 13th May 1770)
  
  
• Maps
  Numerous - earliest dated 1777.
  
  
• Lawton Hall
  A substantial amount of material is being collected appertaining to Lawton Hall and the Lawton Family.
  
  
• Photographs
  In excess of 200 prints have been scanned and are held in digital form.
  
  
• Copies of Parish Registers, Graveyard Plan and Graveyard Database - All Saints' Church.
  

Projects
Computerisation of census returns.
Digitalisation of historical photographs.

Fund Raising Activities
None.

Links

Lawton Family Genealogy Web Sites

Realm of Lawton Includes latest news on Lawton Hall, Lawton Family in England, Lawton Family in America & Lawton Family Tree.

Family newsletter - Lawton Ledger

General Interest

Numerous recent colour photographs of Lawton Hall and manor