Records of John Cheetham on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Cheetham and the Cheetham Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cheetham Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cheetham family tree.

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Cheetham Family History Databases

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Some Famous People called John Cheetham

John Frederick Cheetham

John Frederick Cheetham PC (1835 – 25 February 1916) was a cotton mill-owner in Cheshire and a Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for two five-year periods, in the 1880s and the 1900s.

Cheetham was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire, the eldest son of John Cheetham, a prosperous cotton manufacturer who became a Member of Parliament for South Lancashire in 1852. The family business had been started by George Cheetham (1757–1826) at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and was based on mills in Castle Street, Stalybridge and Bankwood Mills, Stalybridge.

Sometime in the 1870s he took over control of the family business, which at that time employed 1,400 in the two mills. He contested several elections before being returned as MP for North Derbyshire at the 1880 general election. He held that seat for five years, until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election, when he stood unsuccessfully in the new High Peak constituency, losing to the Conservative Party candidate William Sidebottom by only 9 votes (0.2% of the total).He contested High Peak again in 1892, and was also unsuccessful in Bury at the 1895 general election.

He returned to Parliament in January 1905 when he was elected at a by-election as Liberal MP for Stalybridge.He was then 70 years old, but was re-elected in 1906,and did not retire until the January 1910 election.In February 1911 he was appointed a Privy Counsellor.He died in 1916.

Source: John Frederick Cheetham, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

John Cheetham (manufacturer)

John Cheetham, (1802 – 18 May 1886) the son of George Cheetham (1757–1826) a prosperous cotton manufacturer whose business was based at mills in Castle Street, Stalybridge, Cheshire and Bankwood Mills, Stalybridge. The family was Nonconformist in religion and Liberal in politics.

John Cheetham served as MP for South Lancashire and later Salford.

During the Lancashire Cotton Famine in 1861–65, Cheetham rose to prominence as President of the Cotton Supply Association: a body that aimed to promote the growth and export of raw cotton outside the US and particularly in the British Raj. As the US cotton supply returned however, Cheetham's frequent attacks on the governance of the Raj gradually caused opinion in Britain and India to turn against the Association, and it dissolved in 1872.

His son John Frederick Cheetham was MP for North Derbyshire and later for Stalybridge.

Source: John Cheetham (manufacturer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cheetham

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