The Petyt's, Newiss and
Thornton's are attached through marriage, the Thornton's
and Newiss's married into each other twice.
Because of name spellings, which could differ even in the
same family, working out who belongs to whom will be a
long working process.
In the 1400's we know that the Petyt's were farming around
Bolton Abbey. As the families grew there would not be
enough land to sustain the ever growing families, so other
farms in and around the area were obtained.
We can see that during the middle and late 1800's that the
movement of all three families from rural areas to towns
and the change of occupations to mainly textile is
Morton seems to have been one area that all three families
had in common in the mid 1800's.
While every effort as been made to record all the
information correctly, I am only human and mistakes have
most likely been made.