Ferneyhough & variantsSubmit

Ferneyhough family history

Early records timeline

Medieval (place and first bearers)

Date Record Source Status
c.1278 Place named Fernihalu Oxford Dictionary of Family Names (as summarised online) reported
1307 Place named Fernyhalg as above reported
1315 John Fernyhough of Fernyhough, a small Staffordshire estate Guild of One-Name Studies profile reported, primary source not seen
1327 Adam de Fernihaleugh assessed at Endon Staffordshire lay subsidy, Totmonslow hundred; Staffs Hist. Collections vol 7 pt 1 (British History Online) seen
1332 Adam de Fernyhough Staffordshire subsidy roll, Totmonslow hundred; Staffs Hist. Collections vol 10 pt 1 (British History Online) seen (township inferred)
1349 William, son of Adam del Fernyhalgh of Cheddleton (Assizes) Guild of One-Name Studies profile reported, primary source not seen
1383 Richard de la Fernyhalgh, Staffordshire SurnameDB reported

Tudor to Stuart

Date Record Source
1567 Randle Fearnough christened, St John the Baptist, Chester (13 Nov) SurnameDB
1584 Marriage of Alicia Fernyhoughe and Richard Pyott, Kingsley (8 Oct) SurnameDB
1613 Richard Ferneyhough christened, Kingsley (3 Mar) SurnameDB
1618 William, son of Simon and Anne Fernihough, christened, Norton in the Moors (6 Sep) SurnameDB
1621 Will of William Fernihough, leaving the Fernyhough estate to his daughter Ellen; the will was later contested in Chancery Guild profile
1635 John Fernihough married Margaret Clowes, Leek (17 Dec) SurnameDB
1693 Marg Fernyhough christened, Leek (3 Feb) SurnameDB
1720 Thomas Fearnehough married Mary Thornley, Chester (29 Sep) SurnameDB

SurnameDB quotes these from registers but gives no folio references; we aim to check them against the registers themselves.

Parish registers and the family tree (deceased only)

St Leonard's Church, Ipstones, Staffordshire
St Leonard’s Church, Ipstones, where many of the Fernihough and Fernyhough baptisms, marriages and burials in our tree were recorded. Photo: David Weston, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

From the site owner's tree, still to be corroborated from the registers and given proper citations:

  • Ipstones, Staffordshire: Josiah Fernihough (1706-1739); Jonah Josiah Fernihough (1738-1804) and his children (baptised 1770s-1790s); Josiah, James and Thomas (died 1844-1859); Thomas Scarratt Fernihough (1820-1889).
  • Madeley, Staffordshire: Thomas Ferneyhough (1768-1842).
  • Cheddleton, Bagnall, Caverswall, Leek: the family of Henry Ferneyhough (1847-1923) and John Thomas Ferneyhough (1818-1887), mid-1800s.
  • Monmouthshire and the Forest of Dean: the sons of Thomas Herbert Ferneyhough (1867-1947), born at Caverswall, born c.1890s-1900s.

Records still to be mined

Lichfield and Chester probate; Leek, Ipstones, Endon and Cheddleton parish registers; Hearth Tax; poll books; 1841-1921 censuses; emigration records.