The main RATHBONE Family of Liverpool (ex Gawsworth, Cheshire) is well documented, and every member on this very large family has been identified. A great many of the family's documents and photographs are held by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Liverpool. SeeThe RATHBONE Papers.

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Information Wanted

Trying to identify Arthur RATHBONE (c1850-1868) who was lost at sea on the ship "Margaret Longton" on the voyage from Swansea to Valparaiso on 14 May 1868, when he was 18.  He was the second son of an Emma (RATHBONE?) DUTTON, wife of Robert George Elliott DUTTON of Liverpool, who died on 5 March 1885.  No birth registration has been found for this Arthur RATHBONE in 1849-1851 in England.

Searching for the parents of

Jane RATHBONE who married Thomas OLIVER at Farnworth St Luke in 1835.
 

Searching for informationr regarding

Thomas Higginson RATHBONE / RATHBORNE (c1845-1872),
a hammer driver of Openshaw, son of William RATHBORNE, when he married in 1867.
No birth registration found.

• Searching for the family and descendants of

Theodore Vigars RATHBONE (1898-1971), son of George RATHBONE (1858-1930),
draper of West Derby, Liverpool, later of Solihull, Birmingham.
 
• Searching for the parents and family of

John William RATHBONE
married Elizabeth (nee ?) in Liverpool in 1844.
 
• William RATHBONE

who married Ann DAVENPORT at Manchester Cathedral in 1866.
 
• Thomas RATHBONE (c1858-   )

of Liverpool > Menton OH, USA, arriving 20 May 1910, aged 52
with his wife: Susan, born c.1852.
 
• William RATHBONE

married Elsie McCULLOCH (1879-??), Crosby/Ormskirk area; children: Ethel and Joyce.
Seeking details of his birth/baptism and parentage.
 
• Searching for the parents, and family of

James RATHBONE (c1820- )
born Manchester; who may have been the son of John & Sarah (Davies?) - moved to Ryhope, Co. Durham.
 
• Searching for details of

Walter RATHBONE
joined the Liverpool Scottish Regiment in 1913, sergeant (No.2657?) mentioned in despatches.
He continued to serve in the Regiment after World War I.
Coincidentally, this is the was the Reginment in which (Philip St John) Basil RATHBONE served, but there is connection with his family.

Early Sources in Lancashire:

The earliest records of RATHBONE in Lancashire have been found in the parish of Farnworth, near Ditton. Amongst the early entries in the Farnworth parish registers there is a William RATHBONE who was thought to have been born before 1538, and died in 1587, and was buried at Farnworth on 8 June 1587. He married 2 February  1565/66 at Farnworth to Ellen (nee?), who was buried at Farnworth on 30 November 1587.
Their children were:

1. William RATHBONE (1562-before 1577)
2. Thomas RATHBONE (1563-before 1566)
3. Thomas RATHBONE (1566-7 Nov 1623)
     married 13 Oct 1588, Grace COPPOWE

3.1 Margaret RATHBONE (1589-before 1594)
3.2 William RATHBONE (1591-?)
3.3 Margaret RATHBONE (1594-?)
      married 16 November 1612, Thomas ROSE
3.4 Thomas RATHBONE (1596 - 7 Feb 1654), shoemaker
      married 13 April 1616, Alice CHILDWALL

3.4.1 Thomas RATHBONE (1622-?)
3.4.2 Grace RATHBONE (1626-?)
3.4.3 John RATHBONE > RATHBUN (1629-1702)
          married circa 1654, Margaret ACRES
          (dau of Thomas ACRES), emigrated to America (USA).

3.4.4 William RATHBONE (1632-?)
3.4.5 Mary RATHBONE (c1634-?)
3.4.6 Alice RATHBONE (c1636-?)
3.5 Ellen RATHBONE (1600-?Aug 1652)