Marchington is a place name and the village of Marchington is on the boarder of Derbyshire & Staffordshire and is mentioned in Domesday in 1086 and a Saxon charter in 951. The first mention of a person called MARCHINGTON was a William de Marchington & Elias de Marchington in 1220 in the Forest court roles of Chapel en le Frith, High Peak. The Marchington family as far as my research as proved all hail from the High Peak area of Derbyshire, the Hot Spot being Chapel en le Frith and the family scarcely moved from the locality the biggest migration being to the growing industrials town of Manchester in the 1800's and to other places to a lessor extent. I'm in contact with all present day Marchington's throughout the world as some emigrated in the late 1700's, 1800's and 1900's. But still a large pocket live in the High Peak area to this day. Oou goal is to try to convince other family members to take a test which isn’t cheap but highly rewarding $99 = (£49 current exchange rate) for a 12 marker test. key Questions in which DNA testing can help. 1.Established family lines that we cant tie in with Documented lines. 2.Understand how we got in the locality of Chapel en le Frith? 3. Did the family come over in Norman times, as a few branches have stated the name is French? But it’s a place name so is there a Norman link? 4. Is this Norman link to the Montgomery titled family as a pocket of Marchington’s held titles being a cadet branch of Montgomery around Ashborune, Great Cubley area of Derbyshire near the village of Marchington over the boarder in Staffordshire? 5. Do we possess more Celtic, Saxon or Viking DNA? How many differing DNA branches are they? Is there one main DNA branch? Other local names may also share the same 12 marker DNA such as: Bagshaw, Carrington, Brown, Bowden Longsden, Gee, Lomas,Hartle, Hallam, Bowden plus others......