The Furnivals of SandbachThis site is to store the Havercan-Louttit family tree.
It contains information about the Havercan and Louttit families as well as related families:
Pidcock, Murphy, Senior, Pimblott, Robinson, Abernethy, Chamley, Room, and many more.
Note that the tree contains many references to the General Register Office (GRO) index. See GRO indexes registration districts for an explanation of the codes for the registration districts.
The Furnivals of SandbachI have recently prepared a history of the Furnivall family in Sandbach, some of whom are probably the ancestors of my great-great-grandmother, Martha Furnivall.
The major websites used to collate this data are:
We have also visited these County Record Offices:
So far as I have discovered, Havercan (and obvious variants like Havacan, Havecan, and Havican)
are all anglicizations of the original Irish Gaelic
(Ó Gáibhtheacháin)
of which more common variants are Gaughan, Gavaghan or Hevaghan.
See Irish Gaelic Pronunciation for how to pronounce the Irish spelling.
It is apparently usual for wide variations of spelling to occur when converting
the Gaelic name to English.
The name is associated with Mayo, Galway and Roscommon counties.
The following reference suggests the Gaelic name O'Leimheacháin, which is similar, but not convincing:
Following is a map of Runcorn Hill and quarries, provided by Ross Bullock of the
Runcorn and District Historical Society.
(This is where the Havercan family lived in Weston in the early 20th century.)
Probable location of the cottages known as Mount Serrat marked in red. The road marked in blue is the route of the present Weston Road, and the road marked in green is Sandy Lane, leading to Weston Point. Also see the Google Earth location here.
Ada Senior, who married John Havercan in 1914, was part of the Senior family of Northwich. The best genealogy of this family I have found is by Garry Brookes, and I have borrowed freely from his website.
The Pimblotts of Northwich are the most prestigious of our relatives. Isaac Pimblott was the founder of Pimblott's boatyard on the River Weaver. See the article labelled PIMBLOTTS, NORTHWICH at cheshiremagazine for a brief history.
Isaac was the uncle of Ada Senior. Ada's mother, Annie Pimblott, was disowned by the Pimblott family when she married Joe Senior, one of the workers in Isaac's boatyard. There is a family tree of the Pimblott family online, but it barely mentions Isaac.
See also:
The mother of Joe Senior, mentioned above, was Mary Ann Bennion.
The Bennion name is an extremely old Cheshire name that derives from the Welsh "Ap Einion". The somewhat fanciful Pedigree Resource File for Mary Ann Bennion at familysearch.org goes back through fifty generations and includes Rhodri Mawr (King of Wales) and Coel Hen (Old King Cole). I don't trust this genealogy very much (I don't even think that Mary Ann's mother is correct), and I have not included it in the family tree, but I'm including the link for its entertainment value only.
The Pidcock family, ancestors of Winnie Pidcock, who married Jack Havercan in 1945, have some active genealogical sites, such as Pidcocks on the Internet, and especially in the USA at the Pidcock Family Association, and the Pidcock DNA Sleuth Project. The latter is attempting to trace the Pidcock family genealogy through DNA profiling.
A possible derivation of the name Pidcock is from the suffix "cock" meaning "son of" applied to Peter (or "Piet"). It appears possible that all the Pidcocks in England (and in the USA) are descended from a Flemish merchant Pieter, leading to Gilbert Pyttecocke mentioned in Cambridgeshire in 1298 (more details here.)
Joseph Pidcock (1856), of Latchford, was married to Selina Pinnington in 1878. The Pinningtons lived in the Huyton, Halebank, Halewood, Prescot area of South Lancashire. They may be connected to John Penington (abt. 1585) of Aston-by-Sutton, near Runcorn, but this has not been established in any way. In fact, as the Pinningtons to which we are related appear to have a long history in Lancashire, it now seems unlikely that there is any connection.