A FRIEND who lives in Cheshire told me that there are a lot of Becketts in the Northwich area.

At the moment I'm trying to find more information on my Beckett ancestry in Cheshire, and am wondering if any of the Becketts in the Northwich area may be connected.

I'm looking for ancestors, or any other relatives, of my three x great-grandmother Mary Beckett (she married John Latham in Knutsford in 1783) who was born in Ollerton and baptised in St Lawrence's Over Peover in 1761, the daughter of Joseph Beckett and his wife Sarah.

Joseph seems to have been born Cir 1701 and possibly was the one who died in either Ollerton or Bruera in 1769.

Was he Joseph the Yeoman or Joseph the Schoolmaster?

There appears to be more than one Joseph Beckett at that time.

Descent is this: John and Mary Latham's daughter Hannah married William Faram, with their daughter, Sarah, emigrating to Australia in the late 1840s and marrying Joseph Robins in Melbourne in 1855; they are my great-grandparents.

My email address is cliveden@iinet.net.au (the Cliveden bit comes from the Robins family farm here in Queensland, which was named by Sarah after her mother's birthplace of Clive near Middlewich).

Pam Robins Queensland Australia