My name is John Shepherd and I started this site. A lot of the work has been done by my daughter  Rachel and is included in her family tree OnceWereBrigantes on the ancestry.com site. Her tree  includes my wife's family tree which makes the whole thing rather cumbersome in my opinion so I  have hived off the Shepherd part.

Two important new resources have been located since I last updated this site. One is a record of  All the Monumental Inscriptions in the Graveyards of Brigham and Bridekirk 1666 to 1876 which I  obtained from  an organisation called Parish Chest (www.parishchest.com). This has allowed me to  tie up a number of loose ends in the Brigham roots of the family. It has also uncovered some new  loose roots. There are other Shepherds in the Brigham graveyard who are probably part of the same  family but so far I have been unable to establish the precise link. For this reason there is a  disconnected tree on the site centred on the John Shepherd who was born in 1782.

The other is not really a new resource but the parish records of St Elphin's Warrington (always  simply Parish Churcn to Warringtonians), have been made much more user friendly which has allowed  me to tidy up the Warrington roots.