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| Tree Name | Individuals | Families | Sources | ||
| 1 | Barkers | Not so simple working class folk, these Barkers came to Macclesfield from Leeds via Manchester. They climbed the ladder to become publicans, pawnbrokers, coal merchants and printers. | 1,114 | 365 | 864 |
| 2 | Birchenoughs | They came from the fields of Shropshire and from the north, attracted by the new industries in Sandbach to become shoemakers or work in the silk mill in Union Street. With the mechanization of shoemaking and the death of silk making they moved on - to work in the newly-arrived lorry factories of ERF and Fodens or the railway works at Crewe. The Birchenough clan were typified by Nancy's father and mother: Albert and Mary. Albert worked for all his life at Fodens and fought in both World Wars (Sergeant Birchenough was the last soldier to leave Alderney before the Nazis arrived). Despite all the hardship Mary (right) brought up six children who all went on to success. | 2,504 | 808 | 1,488 |
| 3 | Brooksbanks | Lamplugh and Brooksbank families of Cumberland and Yorkshire | 7,752 | 3,116 | 4,093 |
| 4 | Cowards | From the farming town of March in Cambridgeshire they sought their fortunes, some as publicans or as emigrants to America. Then came the move to the back streets of Nottingham from where sprung a rich business brain | 744 | 261 | 451 |
| 5 | Potters | The ancestors of Evelyn Marsden Potter come from the North West and made names for themselves in myriad fields. | 1,356 | 488 | 735 |