The Marland Family

History in Print

Much of what we know of the earlier history of the Marland/Merland family families comes from accounts in local history publications, some over 150 years old, some now quite rare.

We have reproduced the relevant extracts in the following pages, with the sources cited (where they are given). All additions and corrections to this collection are welcome.

• Winifred Bowman, England in Ashton under Lyne (1960)
• Winifred Bowman, Five Thousand Acres of Old Ashton (1990)
• James Butterworth, History of the Town and Parish of Ashton under Lyne and Village of Dukinfield (1823)
• John Corry; The History of Lancashire (1825)
• Henry Fishwick, The History of the Parish of Rochdale in the county of Lancaster (1889)
• Thomas Dunham Whitaker, An History of the Original Parish of Whalley (1801); revised by John Gough Nichols and Ponsonby Lyons (1872)
• Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire (1987)
• Owen Manning and William Bray, History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey (1814)
• Victoria County History - Surrey: Volume 3 (1911)

See also the individual accounts of the local families, and the documentary sources we have found:

• Lancashire
• Surrey
• Somerset