Mike Webster (mikewebster777@btinternet.com)
I have traced my family name of Webster back to c.1650. They are in the areas between Wirksworth and Ashbourne - (many of the villages round here). My earliest known ancestor was one John Webster of Hulland (c.1655). I have amassed details of hundreds of relatives from many families including Tomlinson, Copestake and Nuttall. I have found my relatives appearing in Ince's Pedigrees as well as the parish registers. Would love to hear from any 'WEBSTER's who have their roots set in and around Biggin, Bradley, Hulland, Ashbourne, Wyaston and Atlow. Loads of information to share. Mike Webster
Jackie Askew (jackie.askew@clara.co.uk)
My gt, gt grandfather William KIDD (b.1842 Middleton) ran the Scarthen Nick Printing Office, before he moved to London. His parents were William & Esther HOPE who were born in Staffs. His wife was Mary TOPLIS (1845-1884) daughter of John TOPLIS (1806) and Maria GREEN (1817). Maria was the daughter of James GREEN, grocer (1792) & Mary BODEN (Cromford, c1795).
Siblings of the above married into BIDDULPH, STONE & FURNISS families.
http://www.jackie.askew.clara.co.uk/familytree.htm
Peter C Turner (pcharlestur@hotmail.com)
I have a 4xg grandfather, John MAWLEY/MORLEY; John married Elisabeth GRIFFIN at St Martin's in Birmingham in 1791. It is believed that Elisabeth's father, Silvanus, was the elder of the two sons of George GRIFFIN and Sarah BAGNITT who were wed in Wirksworth. [Sarah is one of those "IGI isolates" she appears just once, a marriage but no parentage.]
From George GRIFFIN, my 6xg grandfather, two earlier generations take us to the marriage of George GRIFFIN and Elizabeth WIGLEY, two of my sixty-four 8xg grandparents.
One of George and Elizabeth's sons was Bartholomew; there is some evidence from Ince's Pedigrees that a Bartholomew GRIFFIN was the incumbent of St Mary's Parish Church of Wirksworth at the turn of the 16th C.
From the marriage of George and Elizabeth the following surnames have been encountered: GRAYSDALE, WOOLAT, VICARS, BUXTON, COTTERILL, FRITH, CORDIN, LINACRE, MOSS, REDD. BUXTON and FRITH have the most extensive genealogy.
I have no defining or definite corroboration of the ancestral Birmingham marriages, from Silvanus back to Wirksworth I remain satisfied births, marriages, deaths and occupations all tally.
John MORLEY's daughter, Mary Ann, married James TURNER in February 1859 in St Philip's Parish Church in Birmingham. James' ancestry and subsequent history can be seen on the South Derbyshire site of Brett Payne: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/sdindex.htm, see under Surname interests on the Oakthorpe Parish Page.
Jane Hall(JANEHALL55@aol.com)
I am researching the name of Allsopp Samual and Grace ,Charles and Eliza,I cannot find their marrige. In the 1851 cencus it is stated Eliza came from Cheadle Staffs but I thing she was living in Wirksworth before they married .Also Charles second marrige to Emily . I think Emily was a Phillips as she was born in salisbury.And their was a family of that name in Wirksworth at that time.
William /Mary Ann Phillips /Barber
If possible could you let me have any information about the family. I am also looking for any information about the Gould family namely Thomas Henry Gould /Mary Elizabeth Higton 19/12/1897.
And last of all I am looking for the family of Job Bunting you married Mary Blackwell in Winster on 25/07/1786 it is said JOB came from DUDLEY WORCS But I think he was living in the area before that . Their home was in BONSALL. as their first child was born in Bonsall 27/05/1787 SAMUAL. Any help would be grateful
Thankyou Jane .
John Doxey and son Matthew(Doxjohnmatt@aol.com)
born Rotherham, emigrated 1982 to Sydney, Australia
See my website at: http://pages.zdnet.com/jojogunne/doxeybennettfamilysite/
Descended from Thomas Henry Doxey, he was born in Bonsall Derbyshire 1867. His Mothers name was Mary Ann born in Bonsall 1843. I have found several Mary Ann's born 1842 and 1844 in Bonsall , but the only Mary Ann who matches the year is one Mary Ann Doxey. Mary was the Daughter of Anthony and Catherine Doxey of Yeomen St. Mary Ann had a Brother Benjamin born 1850 and it is this fact that leads me to believe this Family is the one I have been searching for. One of my Uncles referred to an Uncle Benjamin Doxey from the Matlock area who visited the family of Thomas Doxey in Platt Bridge Lancashire around 1890 to 1910. In 1874 Benjamin and his wife Hannah Elizabeth had a son born named Daniel and was still residing in Bonsall.
Anthony Doxey [ above ] was born in 1815 and his wife was born 1816 locations as yet unknown.
If you are interested in, or know of this particular Doxey Family We would love to hear from you.
John Dobson (j.dobson@uwinnipeg.ca)
23-10 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 1X2
I am descended from the following families:
Joseph Bell, of Matlock, Rowsley, and Great Longstone, b. 1819-20 at Manchester, Lancashire, living 1867, and his wife Lydia Hackett, b. about 1827 at Cromford, living 1867. see http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9713/ff/Bell.html
William Fogg (1762/63-1835), of Cromford, and his wife Lydia see http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9713/ff/Fogg.html
John Hackett, living at Cromford in the 1790s, possible identical with the John Hackett, aged 62 years, who was buried at Matlock on 20 Jan. 1808. see http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9713/ff/Hackett.html
Julia Joaquin (JuliaJoaq@aol.com)
Thomas Bowne b. ca 1595 Matlock d. 1650 Flushing NY Who was his wife? His son John Bowne b. 1627 Matlock m. Hannah Feke (Feek). He was a Quaker. Would like to trade information.
Sue Pepin(soupyis@telus.net)
They are Joseph Bunting born 1879 to Joseph Bunting and Emma E. Haslam. He was born in Bonsall and married in Bonsall to Emily Wildgoose born in 1883 to George Wildgoose and Harriet Elliott of Bolehill. Looking for Buntings and Wildgoose connections.
Barbara Broadway(bandb@tinyworld.co.uk)
My husband and I lived on Derby Road Wirksworth for twenty years and my daughter married a local lad by the name of Roger Lees. His mother was a Mather and was related to Herbert Doxy, her mother was a Lamb from Middleton. I have been trying to discover the family history for Roger....
Carol Wood(Toncarol@aol.com)
Hannah Kinder nee Oakley is listed in the 1841 census in Bonsall as a widow (Richard Kinder died in 1840). In 1851 she was running the grocer and draper shop in Two Dales Darley. Her son John Kinder married Amy Brooks in 1860 but I can find no trace of him in the 1861 census. John and Amy's son William Coare Kinder moved to Paisley Scotland as a shoemaker about 1880.
Lisa Miller(wildmillers@netscapeonline.co.uk)
Joseph Atkins born in 1839 in Wirksworth som of Charles and Ellen. Also GREATORIX - Traced back to William born 1810 in Parwich (not too far from Wirksworth) Son of Samuel Greatorix and Alice Plant.
Margaret Pidcock-Burns(margaret@burghwallis.fsnet.co.uk)
I'm doing a one-name study of the Pidcock family, one branch of which resided at Ashleyhay. I would like to make contact with anybody researching this name, for mutual help.
Malcolm Godber (malcolmg@hip-bodycote.co.uk)
Very happy to do any lookups amongst the 17,000 GODBER records that I have. One day I will have one tree!
Susan Buxton "Susan Johnson" (Sue.Halifax@btinternet.com)
Researching BUXTON from Middleton and Cromford. Married into the following families Wigley, Topliss, Frost, Lee, Pearson, Britland, Gell, Beeston, Staley, Leam, Kidd, Street. 1702 - 1850's (Cromford) and then moved to Ripley, Pinxton and finally Yorkshire.
Sylvia Martyn (smartyn@supanet.com)
Dear John,would you please include my name interests on your wirksworth website. They are daniel wilson,joseph wilson and christiana woodford all dates. Thank you.- Sylvia Martyn.
Eric Hatfield (eric.hatfield@bigfoot.com)
I have been using your Database for some time and have managed to trace my Family back to 1700. My family lived at Hatfield Farm, North end from 1860 and before that at St John's Street, West End, Beeley Yard and Hammond's Court.
Carol K Toulson (CarolToulson@aol.com)
I have traced my mother's family back to Samuel WRAGG (1730-1808). So far I have traced marriages connecting Samuel's descendants to the following families;
Brookes; Roger; Godbehere; Doxey; Alsop; Sheldon; Mather; Rouse; Huntstone; Evans; Slack; Spencer; Brook; Storer; Gamble; Andrew; Bowns; Higgins ;Measures; Burgin; Southron(Southern); Cocker; Doughty; and Burke.
Alan Bloor (a.w.bloor@abloor.freeserve.co.uk)
I am a descendant of James Barton CLAY who was born in Wirksworth around 1787 but left there to live in Belper around 1835. Some of his children followed him there and others went to Birmingham. I would be interested to hear from anyone researching this line.
Sheila Pursglove, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
(ronthorsen@sharkeysvideo.com)
Chapel-en-le-Frith and possibly Wirksworth.
Buchmann, (buchmann@bellsouth.net)
Beryl Young (g.y@ntlworld.com)
at Wirksworth and the surrounding area.
Richard J. O'Donnell (rodonnell@bigfoot.com) Melbourne, Florida, USA
Researching the FANTOM surname, all dates and localities, worldwide.
Please visit my home page "Fantoms of Fall River" at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6685/ and peruse the link "The Fantom Family Tree".
Phil Amatt (amatt@btinternet.com)
Susan Sylke (SusanSylke@earthlink.net)
Anne Turner (turner@lymm.u-net.com)
Researching all Buxtons, all dates from Derbyshire and in particular Wirksworth and surrounding area, particularly corn millers. Also looking for information on other corn millers, corn milling and corn mills in Derbyshire.
Rhys Williams (rhyswilliams@btinternet.com)
I'm tracing my mother's mother's FLETCHERs and am particularly interested in the firstname Marshall, which appears in a Wirksworth birth 1852 and several other branches of the family at earlier and later dates, though not in Wirksworth.
Chris Newall (chris@rebus.demon.co.uk)
I have traced my mother's family back to John HALL (d. 1688) of Middleton-by-Wirksworth and have investigated collateral links to the SLACK, SPENCER, BROOKS, ELSE, MOORE and DOXEY families. Some of these are summarised at my web site: http://www.rebus.demon.co.uk/, which also has a complete transcription of the 1841 Census for Middleton-by- Wirksworth.
Milton Froggatt (frogg@igrin.co.nz) & http://www.igrin.co.nz/~frogg/
Researching FROGGATT...Descendants of George born 1731 in Ashbourne, his daughter Ellen, & son Edward who married Hannah ? (1st wife), & Hannah Wood born 2 June 1800, and their son Nicholas born 9 March 1801 in Cromford.
Malcolm Byard (malcolm.byard@virgin.net)
Researching all BYARDS, all dates from Derbyshire and in particular Wirksworth and Wingerworth.
Kathryn Farrell (kfarr77711@juno.com or kfarrell@massed.net)
My new website is at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wirksworth
Terry Richards (TelBubOne@aol.com)
Researching Robert COOPER born about 1840 in Wirksworth or Callow
1871 Census RG10/3592 folio 42 Parish of Alfreton / Village or Hamlet of Greenhill Lane / Ecc. dist. Riddings. Robert Cooper Head Mar 31 Agri Labourer in Derbys. Wirksworth (maybe Callow) Ann " Wife Mar 29 Housekeeper " Wessington William " Son 7 Scholar " Wheatcroft Elizabeth " Dau 4 " Crich Robert " Son 2 " Greenhill Lane
Keith Brooks (ka@brooks500.freeserve.co.uk)
Researching all BROOKS and variants, all dates, in Middleton-by-Wirksworth and surrounding areas
John Palmer
I've traced my mother's DOXEY ancestors to Middleton-by Wirksworth between 1570 and 1870