Person:Thomas Binns (4)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends.

DEATH: Some controversy here, to be cleared up. Leicester says 1852. G.J. Binns gives 1862 in his genealogy. Sunderland gives 1842!!

OCCUPATION: Leather cutter. Local historian. With the help of his nephew and others he collected a very large number of plans and other documents relating to Lancaster and the surrounding district, and these, containing 6,000 items, are preserved in thirty-five volumes in the Liverpool Public Library and ought to be far better known than they now are. They were acquired by the Liverpool Corporation for £300. He wrote many obituary notices; he left much manuscript material in the Binns Collection and a small scrap of thirty-two words in the possession of Mr. G. J. Binns [T. Cann Hughes, MA, FSA in "A Lancaster Literary Family"]

CONFLICT: See records, above.

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

1. ↑ ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers)
   Line 8, pp 41-42.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} T. Cann Hughes, MA, FSA of Lancaster. A Lancaster Literary Family. (The Manchester Literary Club Papers 1932)
   p.228.
4.   Kenneth Wilson. Lothersdale Chart. (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).