The Higson names is heavily associated with southern counties of Lancashire. You can find out more about the history and meaning of the /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/5537824 name.

Current research identifies our line of the Higson appears around Middle Hulton (in the Parish of Deane) in the mid 1500s. The earliest recorded member of our family line is Peter Higson (1530 - 1614). This Peter is the 8 x Great Grandfather of Mary Hayes wife of David Yates who emigrated to Australia in 1883.

My Higson ancestry goes back 16 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links

• Peter Higson married Elizabeth
  • Ralph Giles Higson ? - 1615 married Alice
    • Giles Higson 1595 - 1667 married Alice Jackson
      • George Higson 1623 - 1690 married Margaret
        • Giles Higson 1658 - married Anne Farneworth
          • Peter Higson 1685 - 1766
          • James Higson 1687 - 1776 married Margareta Sims
            
            • Giles Higson 1712 - 1792
              
              • Mary Higson 1748 - 1822 married Henry Pendelbury
            • Richard Higson 1725 - 1804 married Mary Brook
              • Richard Higson 1756 - 1831 married Ellen Seddon
                • James Higson 1791 - 1871 married Mary Pendlebury
                  • Margaret Higson 1825 - 1887 married John Hayes
                    • Mary Hayes 1851 - 1929 married David Yates
                      
                      • Eva Mary Yates 1895 - 1967 married James Bashford Bain
                        • Doreen Bain 1921 - 2000 married Douglas James Hardie
                          • My father
      • Peter Higson 1626 - 1688