Professional Researchers for Derbyshire

Name Postal address Telephone E-mail address Sara F Scargill Flat 2/1 Waterloo Mill, Waterloo Street, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 8AT. website Joan Measham Tor Cottage, 81 Cavendish Rd, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 3HD --- Jane James Derby Local Studies Library, 25b Irongate, Derby DE1 3GL 01332-255393 Richard Green 6 Stanway Close, Uttoxeter ST14 8UZ 01889-568583 Sovereign Ancestry 246 Mauldeth Rd, Burnage, Manchester M19 1AA 0161-431-4762 07721-679104 Chris Rayson 123 Shardlow Rd, Alvaston, Derbt DE24 0JR 01332-574505 Kate Henderson 16 Steeple Grange, Wirksworth, Derbyshire DE4 4FS 01629-825-132 Simon Martin 21 Petticoat Lane, Higher Ince, Wigan, Lancs WN2 2LH 01942-702-594 Blanche Charles1 160 Oban Street, Wellington 6001, New Zealand. Freda Raphael 2 -

NOTES 1 Blanche lives close to the NZ Archives and writes: "I have some good resources at home and also live only a few minutes from our National Archives (passenger lists, wills etc) & National library (electoral rolls etc), so if people think that their Derbyshire folk came to NZ then I can help from this end." 2 Freda writes: "I've been a researcher for six or seven years,... following being hooked by local history (I went back to Uni at Nottingham and studied for the Advanced Cert in Regional and Local History with Dr David Marcombe, gaining a Distinction) I live just across the valley from Wirksworth - down the hill from Crich, in Bullbridge, Ambergate and opposite Stevenson's dye works. I've lived here four years - I was in Nottingham previously, and the East Midlands for 30 years. Part of the reason for moving here was that this area is so steeped in history - lead mining and quarrying (cf Wirksworth), dyeing (I'm keen on historic textiles, too, and grow woad, weld and madder in my garden!); coal, canals and tramways - my house was built for Harry Hyde, a local coal-merchant. I'm on the list of record agents at Notts and Derbys Archives."

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