Editing Openai/6967cb19-00ac-8006-95fb-cdd2efe1177b (section)

=== Assistant: Yes — I can pull out a clean, meaningful list of personal names from that page, stripping out the places of abode and l… ===
Yes — I can pull out a clean, meaningful list of personal names from that page, stripping out the places of abode and leaving you with something you can actually work with. I’ll keep the original spellings where they’re clear, lightly normalise obvious OCR artefacts (e.g. “Tho.” → Thomas), and preserve the order of appearance on the page rather than inventing anything.

This is page 68, clearly a list of Persons’ Names with residences alongside.

==== Left column: ====
* Thomas Do Protus
* Fermick Robinson
* James Finch
* Thomas Wamfley
* Richard Burches
* Cram Lydall
* H. Nicholson, Gent.
* John Shields
* Walter Tancard
* William Hogg
* John Larr, Bar.
* George Hodson
* Thomas Goode
* George Cowling
* Robert Coop
* James Calton
* Richard Cootling
* Henry Cooper
* Roger Dunkinson
* Edward Duckworth
* Thomas Brierly
* John Barrow Westby
* John Brocholes
* Edward Bewick
* Henry Hoskinson
* John Kitching
* Tomgar Langdale
* Francis Leigh
* Edward Coore
* John Jackson
* Henry Newsham
* Thomas Darwen
* John Gyson
* Thomas Garside
* John Huthersale
* Richard Holland
* Alderman Osbaldon
* John Pleasington
* Robert Pleasington
* Richard Pottlethwait
* Thomas Paris
* Richard Dansford

Right column:
* John Parlenison
* Hugh Anderton
* Anthony Barlow
* John Bleaddall
* Nathaniel Allen
* Thomas Bryers
* Luke Hodkinson
* Thomas Bryers
* William Bolton
* William Brocholes
* Thomas Waring
* Thomas Birches
* Robert Daniel
* James Dogheader
* Ralph Trapp
* Thomas Shuttleworth
* John Slutzaker
* Ingleby Thorn
* John Trafford
* Thomas Wamfley
* John Wareing
* Thomas Stanley
* James Singleton
* Richard Shirton
* Joseph Rigby
* Lawrence Sharrock
* Robert Searsbrick
* William Shuttleworth
* Richard Davey
* Christopher Tracy
* Robert Nough
* Alexander Bryers
* William Houghton
* Robert Wadworth
* Thomas Curns, Jun.
* Ralph Shuttleworth
* William Scott
* James Aspden
* Richard Piborough
* George Clifton
* Thomas Hesket

==== - This looks very much like a muster / oath / assessment list, not a parish register. ====
* The mixture of gentlemen, aldermen, and trades surnames fits a late-17th / early-18th-century civic or county list.
* Spellings are phonetic and inconsistent, which is exactly what you’d expect for this period.
* Several surnames (Hog(g), Shuttleworth, Anderton, Cowling, Hodkinson, Pleasington, Trafford) are strongly Lancashire-local — very much your territory.

If you’d like, next steps could be:
* 🔹 normalising spellings into a research index
* 🔹 grouping by surname (to see family clusters)
* 🔹 comparing this list against Preston / Ribbleton / Walton-le-Dale parish records
* 🔹 dating the document more tightly based on officeholders (e.g. Ald. Osbaldon)

Just tell me how you want to use it.