We are making some significant progress with this tree, thanks to help from 
family members - Louise Lopdell Armstrong, Paul Campbell, Michael Moore, and 
from the wonderful people on RootsWeb and BannValley mailing lists.

In 1800, none of our ancestors were living in Liverpool!  The first to arrive
were the Ryans, some time in the late 1820s.  They disappeared to Bristol for a
while in the early 1840s, but otherwise they've stayed put.  
They were joined in the 1840s by the Armstrong, the Smiths and the McDermotts 
from Ireland, then later on by the Ricks all the way from Denmark!
Samuel Roberts moved from Mold in Wales in the late 1850s, as did Lydia 
Runacus from Suffolk - via London, Norfolk, and possibly London again.
In the late 1860s and 1870s, the Stirrat and the Jones families arrived from
Ireland via Scotland - they had taken the same route for very different reasons.
 The former were 'Ulster Scots' - Presbyterians, and the latter Roman Catholics 
from the South (Cork and Limerick)
The Hughes and the Corrigans arrived at about the same time, we think.
Finally, right at the end of the century, Christina Naylor went to Newton Le 
Willows and returned with William Naylor, one of a long-established Lancashire 
family.
So now, we've begun to spread out again.  We are in Manchester, Bicester, 
Bristol, Stockton on Tees.  People have joined the family from Zimbabwe, and 
there are Spanish links too.
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