Excerpt from Brereton: A Family History Biography is history in action. All should take pride in knowing something regarding their forefathers, where they came from, and what they have done. This work gives an outline of the Brercton family history in England, Ireland, and America, from A.D. 1066 to the present, but does not attempt a detailed pedigree of the different branches, or assume to prove "royal descent from Norman, Saxon, and Celt"; that is left to such works as "Ormerod's History of Cheshire," "Memoirs of the Brereton Family," by Sir Fortunatus Dwarris, and "The Breretons of Cheshire," by Robert Maitland Brereton. These scholarly works are mostly occupied with English records, touch lightly on Irish Breretons, and say little or nothing of American families, of whom no account has been attempted before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.