Our
research into the history of our family has taken us back to the 18th Century in Denbighshire and Lancashire. As can be seen they moved about a great deal.
The pages in this section tell something of their lives, the places where they lived and how over the past 200 plus
years our lives have changed.
It wasn't until 1868 that the 't' was added to the Prichard name of our
ancestors. All our records show that before that date it was Prichard without the 't' so that is how it appears on this
website for all of those members of the family born in Wales. George (1842) and Margaret (1842) Prichard were
illiterate and the 't' was added to their name when they registered the birth of Robert (1868) in Co. Durham. We have
also decided to use the Welsh name 'Aberchwiler' rather than the English 'Aberwheeler' in all our references to the place
where our earliest known family members lived.
