Families of Cheshire
The Palatine earldom, Chester's walls, the salt towns, and the gentry seats of the Cheshire plain.
Tap a region of the map to see who held it.
Families seated in Cheshire
- WrightThe maker, every guild town shaped one.
- WoodBy the wood.
- HallAt the hall.
- TurnerThe lathe.
- FisherThe fisher, and the Bishop of Rochester at Tower Hill.
- RichardsonSon of Richard.
- HolmesThe holme, dry ground in the wet country.
- LeeThe meadow, and a clearing-name stamped on dozens of villages.
- BrooksBy the brook, every wet valley had one.
- BennettBlessed Benedict, Lancashire knots it tight.
- ShawThe copse-edge, Lancashire loves it.
- FosterThe forester's shortening.
- GibsonGib's son, industrial northeast.
- WaltonThe settlement of strangers, England mapped it eighty times.
- HayesThe enclosure, hedged common.
- WebsterShe wove, northern -ster craft name.
- BatesBartholomew's short name, northern genitive.
- ChapmanThe merchant, fair and street.
- MortonThe moor settlement, marcher villages.
- GrosvenorDukes of Westminster, the wealthiest landowners in Britain.
- LoweDweller by the mound, a Marches hill-name.
Historic ties to Cheshire
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Cheshire.
- David ColemanThe Alderley Edge railway-clerk's son who anchored the BBC's Grandstand for twenty years, presented every Olympic Games on British television from Rome 1960 to Sydney 2000, and chaired A Question of Sport.
- Fred PerryThe Stockport son of a Labour MP who took the World Table Tennis title in 1929, won three Wimbledon singles championships from 1934 to 1936, and founded the laurel-wreath polo-shirt brand that wears his name.
- Hugh Lupus GrosvenorThe 3rd Marquess of Westminster who in February 1874 was created 1st Duke of Westminster by Disraeli, the last person outside the immediate British royal family to be elevated to a non-royal dukedom, and who across his fifty-five-year tenure of the family estate transformed the Mayfair and Belgravia inheritance into the most valuable urban property holding in the world.