"I thought 2 looked rather low for the number of Warburtons in Wigan. I would expect similar numbers for all towns in the Mersey corridor from Liverpool to Manchester, but the highest concentrations were in Bury and Bolton."
That's funny, Ray. My Cunliffe family comes from Bolton. And for anyone looking for information in Lancashire within the last couple of hundred years there are online parish and census records. I even found old pictures of Bolton in the Bolton section. The link is below.
I thought 2 looked rather low for the number of Warburtons in Wigan. I would expect similar numbers for all towns in the Mersey corridor from Liverpool to Manchester, but the highest concentrations were in Bury and Bolton.