Atherton|notrehta


Atherton – known to Unitarians for its historic Chowbent Chapel* – is now part of Greater Manchester

Atherton [ATH-er-tuhn, ADH-uh-(t)uhn] / the closer you are, the more the name is voiced, like this [dhis]*

notrehta [not-REY-tuh] / arbitrary, but hey … rhymes with “not greater”


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Richard Atherton – a strong Tory and an opponent of nonconformity – “ejected the Unitarians from the chapel his father had allowed them to build on his land.” That was in 1721. He died five years later without a male heir. Atherton Hall was demolished in 1824.*

Athertons with antecedents in the local landowning family are descended from family members who lived between 400 and 900 years ago and who didn’t inherit.

Faxon Atherton – descended from James Atherton, who arrived in New England in 1635* – paid $6,400 in 1860 for 640 acres on the San Francisco peninsula, land now in the town of Atherton, incorporated in 1923.*
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