The Manchester Family

The Manchester family has an ancient and illustrious lineage.
When surnames were first taken by families we find the first recorded ancestor. Wakeliniugs, the Saxn, who lived in the time of King Stephen. Of Saxon origin its representatives were among the few who survived in any measure the wreck of the Norman Conquest. The spelling Manchester is the English form of the old Saxon spelling Mancestre and it in turn is a corrupted version of the Roman name "Manduessedum" meaning little fort which the Romans had called the district. It was located on the Anker river in Warwickshire, near Oldbury, not far from the city of Coventry. The old Roman road which runs through the ruins of the fort is called Watling street and here forms the boundary between Warwickshire and Leicestershire. In the reign of Henry III Simon de Manchester left the Mancestre estate and took up residence at Tanworth, eight miles south of Birmingham, at Cheswick Green. This too had been an ancient earthwork surrounded by a moat. Very little history is available about Tanworth and only one reference has been found of Simon's residence there. From his descendants, come the American Manchesters as believed by their family genealogist.

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