Tracing the family name can be a daunting task and the Winskill name, being unusual, I have found to be very difficult at times. I hope that others can contribute so that I may build up a better picture of the family tree.

It doesn't help that my grandfather was alleged to have been the youngest of 20. As I have only traced about 10 of his brothers and sisters, you can see the problems that present themselves. It gets worse as thier ancestors also had large families and some of them even changed the spelling of the name. Some did not like the 'kill' on the end of the name. Personally I believe it to be 'skill'.

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