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Another "Mottershead" Page!
It's hard to believe that a name as unusual as "Mottershead" could have so many different family lines, but it seems there are!
This site is aimed at dealing specifically with my lineage within the Mottershead tree (although it contains references to other family names including "Hall", "Gaskell", "Seel", "Evans" and "Critchlow"). There's no doubt we Mottersheads are all related somewhere, as the name appears to have a common root in the township of Mottram St. Andrew in Cheshire, England. There are however variations on a theme as to how the name "Mottershead" actually came about. It has been suggested that it was to this region th