","Lancashire (Lancs) didn’t exist in 1086 for the Domesday Book but was first created in 1182, a historic, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Originally two separate parts which included Manchester and Liverpool along the northwestern edge of England.","This historic county of Yorkshire (County of York) is located in Northern England and is the largest in the whole England and the United Kingdom. Full of large stretches of countryside including well known Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the Peak District it is now surprise it was nicknamed “God’s own Country”.","Cheshire is located in the North West of England, the history can be traced back to the Hoxnian interglacial (400,000 and 380,00 Years BP), stone age remains have been found showing permanent habitation in the Neolithic period.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","
County Palatine of Durham was succeeded to County Durham or just Durham. A Historic County located in Northern England with borders Northumberland, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Cumberland (Cumbria). Durham has a mixture of mining and farming heritage as well as railways, Durham Castle and Cathedral are designated World Heritage Sites. Steeped in history from the Bishop of Durham to St Cuthbert and Norman capture in 1069.
","A family seat, or simply a seat, was the principal manor of a medieval lord, which was normally an elegant country mansion and usually denoted that the family held political and economic influences in the area. In some cases, the family seat was a manor house.","Poll Tax by definition is a "tax, of uniform amount levied on each individual, or 'head' and dates back to 14th century England. Poll Tax has continued in many forms through to modern history. The Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379 led to the Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising in 1381. In the United States a similar tax based on the right to vote was struck down in 1964 with the 24th Amendment.","Many of our last names in use today, cannot be found before the 17th and 18th century since the majority of them were changed. By example, the famed William Shakespeare, spelt his last name, Shakespeare, Shakespere, Shakespear, Shakspere, and Shaxspere.","wapentake, from Old Norse word vápnatak, is an administrative division of the English counties of York, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Derbyshire, and Rutland. It was first referenced in Saxon times, about 962 AD. Literally the term wapentake, meant the taking of weapons and was prevalent in these counties due to the Danish or Viking influence at that time.","Suffolk is in East Anglia on the East side of England, bordered by Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, it has a coast line in the North Sea. It has extensive farming and arable land with areas of outstanding natural beauty with its hill and the wetland area of the Broads. With many archeology finds over the years from eras like the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the famous Sutton Hoo one of England’s most significant Anglo-Saxon finds. ","Normans were established in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Normans, or Northmen, were actually descendants of the Vikings. Vikings, under Chief Stirgud the Stout, invaded the Orkneys and Northern Scotland in the 9th century. ","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Nottinghamshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/bayeux1.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lincolnshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/westmorland_england.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lancashire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Yorkshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Cheshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Durham England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/castle1.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Suffolk England.webp?pos=floatRight","","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Godale","sU":"GOODALL","oC":"EN","o":"English","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/GOODALL/EN/Godale/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}