John Ma[u]wdsley- educator. help?
I'm operating from very very obscured family lore here so please forgive a lack of useful details.Passed through an oral tradition I find that I have a line to John Mawdsley, who my Grandmother (now deceased) claimed 'introduced free education to England' and 'built the Sankey (9 arches) viaduct.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAsankey.htmhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAsankey.htm
Very big claims and not unusual for my grandmother!I've scratched the surface on research and found nothing.Do any of you good people know of whom I speak?
We may be looking at a MaWdsley or MaUdsley- even that basic data is lost to history.
many thanks