This Prescott family is currently taken to be the
descendants of James
Prescott who was born in the town of St Helens, Lancashire in
1810.
The earliest Prescott occupations centred around the glass
industry of St Helens where
they worked in the manufacture of plate glass and mirrors at a
time when rough cast sheets
of glass had to be ground and polished. There was at least one
known fatal accident
involving a Prescott son and grinding machinery. Glass artefacts
still exist from this
time and include an engraved glass tankard, an inkwell and a slab
of polished glass.
Local and national politics have played an inportant role for some
of the decendants of
James and there have been several Mayors and Mayoresses (Crewe,
Godmanchester) and two
Members of Parliament (Darwen, Tottenham North). The Prescotts
have also supplied Chairmen
for many public bodies including Middlesex County Council and the
Metropolitan Water
Board.
The male line decended from James' eldest son William is now
extinct with the last male
Prescott being the headmaster of Buxworth School, Derbyshire. The
descendents of William's
daughter Ellen, visited St Helens on July 24th 2002 in search of
family locations. The
glassworks at Sutton, where they were known to work, has long
since been demolished and
the site remains unused except for a glass recycling business on
the northeast side. One
former Prescott house at 66 Peckers Hill Lane was found to be
currently in use as a
butchers shop. Another house at Ditch Hillock had been redeveloped
and now forms part of
New Street and Waterdale Place, near to the Glassmakers Arms. A
visit to the nearby
churchyard of St Nicholas found several Prescott gravestones
including that of James.
There are still living Prescotts descended from James' third son
Jonadab who moved to
Blackburn, Lancashire around 1884. Jonadab's branch is perhaps the
most interesting and
has included a convict, a knight and three baronets.
Click here to go to the early Prescott generations tree
Click here to go to the Jonadab Prescott decendants tree
Click here to go to the William Prescott descendants tree
E-mail address: martynpickup (at) aol.com
This data was updated on Friday 1 July 2005
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