The Entwis(t)le Family

By Bannister Grimshaw

1924

Printed and Published by

The Accrington Gazette Co., Ltd. [1]

88 Abbey Street.

Dedication:    To W A Entwistle Esq.,  This Book is Dedicated, as a small recognition of his friendship to the Author.

Forward.

This little book makes no claim to be a history of the Entwis(t)le family. It is merely a compilation of notes and records the writer has collected from many sources in the hope that they may prove of service by creating an interest in the very ancient and notable Lancashire family; revive the dormant pride of ancestry in present-day representatives, and prove of some little service to a future historian.

The 1923 quest for evidences for the purpose of discovering if there were any grounds on which the family could base a claim for the recovery of their traditional lost inheritance, proved that there is a vast quantity of very interesting and ancient documents, etc., held by the family's modern representatives scattered over a wide area, a discovery mainly due to the "keen scent" and unflagging activities of Mrs. Marr, of Weaste, who seems to have invaded every creek and cranny in the country for evidence. It is hoped her labours may find reward in a future volume.

The effect of this knowledge was to create in Mr. W A Entwisle - one of the committee - the laudable  ambition that there should be an annual gathering of the clans to spend a social evening together with the dual object of maintaining fraternal intercourse and placing on permanent record such historical family records, traditions, etc, as they may possess.

It is with this object in view that he very generously offered to be financially responsible for  the publications of this little volume, should its merits fail to attract the necessary support of the family - on whom it is obviously mainly dependent for its sales.

Notes are ever incomplete, but they are always useful as bases for enlargement and research. There is the bare mention, for instance, of two brothers: Bertine Entwisle, Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; and Edmund, Dean of Chester. Their life stories must be teeming with interest; yet they have not been recorded.  There are many others - past and present - well worthy a writer's attention.

It is indisputable that for nigh on a thousand years the family has been producing modest men, doers of noble deeds - but unfortunately, unknown, unsuspected or unappreciated by their own posterity.