The material extracted both enhanced and confused the picture. From my work emerged thousands of jigsaw pieces and what appeared to be a truly daunting task of fitting them all together. There are about 1050 Rawes births between 1837 and 1987 registered in England and Wales. Over 618 were born in north-west England and about 90 died before there were ten years old. Although little work is now carried out, the Rawes archive is continuing to grow as occasionally people contact me and we are able to help each other.
Additional information is of course welcome.
Extra pages covering specific archive material will be added in due course. Care and a certain amount of delicacy however will be exercised on the material published. Information both photographic and documentary is always welcome. It must be enphasised that further research may well alter the conclusions drawn so far.