A team of three researchers has worked since 1996 to compile the most extensive genealogy yet published on Blackleach/Blackledge/Blacklidge families in America. You can find more information on this project at http://www.blackledgebook.org/

Approximately 90% of all Blackledge/Blacklidge surnames and descendants in the United States derive from one of four primary progenitor lines dating back to the early 17th and 18th centuries. Chapters provide lines of:
John Blackleach, Phillip Blacklidg, William Blackledge, and Zachariah Blackledge
This work represents the compilers’ impressive collaboration with numerous contributors, both genealogists and descendants. The reader will find bibliographical notations throughout to support and authenticate the research. The work includes derivation of the name, English roots, and Blythe Hall – the Blackledge ancestral home. Numerous family stories of interest have been provided by descendants.

• The Blackledge Ancestral Home: Blythe Hall (36 KB)
  Blythe Hall as it appears today: Lathom, England. Photo is from Sep 1994, courtesy of Linda Grace Talbot. Published on page 10, "Blackledges in America."
• Blackledge Cousins from Jones Co, MS. (29 KB)
  This charming photo is c. 1910, Jones Co, MS, and includes Walters, Blackledges, Holifields. Photo courtesy Linda Grace Talbot and those pictured are identified in the published work on Pg. 570 of "Blackledges in America."

• Information on the 953 page book
• Blackledge Family Genealogy Forum

Michael Allan Blackledge
14321 Stalgren Ct. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87123-2209
United States
mike@blackledge.com

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