Hello John
The following is the family history of the
Beesley Flint Hoades and Macbeth families
Henry Beesley born 1845 at Heysham Lancashire removing for a time to
Liverpool... His parents died young and he came to Coldwell Street
Wirksworth to live with his Uncle and Aunt Samuel and Anne Flint nee
Taylor ..Samuel son of Samuel and Hannah Flint nee Allen they my
4XUncle and Aunt .
On achieving working age mid teens he became a Solicitors Clerk at the
office of what by 1901 was Andrew Macbeth Solicitors also in the 1830s
Wirksworth Savings Bank where the Manager was Samuel Frost nephew of
my 4XGrandmother Mary Flint nee Frost.
Samuel married Nanny Smith daughter of Richard Smith who with Thomas
Smedley partnered at a Hosiery Works on North End Wirksworth
Thomas Smedley having married Mary Smith sister to Richard Smith their
son being John Smedley 1st whose name founded John Smedley Lea Mills
Henry married Anne Marie James daughter of Thomas James a Druggist and
China Ware dealer on St John Street Wirksworth formerly from Haverfordwest
Pembrokeshire, Anne Marie's sister Mary married Andrew Macbeth at Duffield
Parish Church on September 16th 1857 Andrew the son of Isaac and Hannah
Macbeth nee Boden ..Hannah daughter of Abel and Anne Boden nee Hoades of
Scarthin Cromford Anne Hoades being daughter of my 4XGrandfather Isaac
Hoades via his 2nd wife Elizabeth Peach .. Isaac Hoades was my 4XGrandfather
via his 1st wife Anne Shaw daughter of Jethro and Ruth Shaw nee
Clark-Robinson of Oker and Wensley respectively (Annes nephew John Shaw
began the dynasty of quarry owners at Matlock Dale Colehills Hoe Grange
(with George Lovegrove) and Middle Peak (with William Green Goodwin of
Wigwell Grange John Wilde Shaws brother in law and Peter Bowne )
Henry and Anne Marie had the following children
Frederick A Beesley, Ernest, Lawrence born 1877, Edith, Louisa H,
Cyril J, Frank and Arthur The childrens Nanny was Martha Millward
Farnsworth my sister in laws Grt Aunt Martha sister to Thomas Millward
Farnsworth who married Anne Potter of Wirksworth they my sister in laws
Grandparents Potters being Plumbers and Building Contractors of Cromford
Road Wirksworth J Farnsworth married my brother J.M Flint retired Bank
Manager
Lawrence Beesley of this family married Gertrude Cecile Macbeth in 1901
daughter of Thomas and Ellen Macbeth nee Fox Thomas son of Andrew Macbeth
and Isabella nee Spencer Isabella daughter of Anthony and Ellen Spencer
nee Duffield of Gorsey Bank, Isabella kin of my wife's family of Spencer
Evans Slack Else and Butler and my sister in laws family of Potter
Isabella's brothers Anthony married Grace Potter 2nd wife and Henry
Spencer married Anne Potter children of James and Grace Potter nee Peat
Grace nee Peat was sister to Anne Peat who married my 3XGrandfather
John Flint as his 1st wife they daughters of Phineas Peat ..Anne died in
childbirth 1st child and John married Elizabeth Colledge in 1789
she my true 3XGrandmother
Thomas and Isabella lived at 15 Clayton Street Hulme Manchester where
he owned his own Commercial Tailoring business employing over 45 staff
Lawrence and Gertude Beesley had a son Alec who married Dodie Smith of
Manchester Alec and Dodie were Actors at The Athenian Theatre Manchester
owned by Dodies Uncle but by the 1930s as Alec was a opposed to war they
removed to U.S.A. where Dodie made her mark as a Playwright being the
author of 101 Dalmatians and other works made into Feature Films by the
Disney organisation .. Meanwhile at home in England Lawrence had
attended Caius College Oxford gaining 1st Class Honours in Science teaching
at Anthony Gell Grammar School from 1902 - 1904 and then becoming a
Lecturer at Dulwich College
By 1910 he became a member of The Christian Science movement of Mary Baker
Eddy and had written papers on pure science ..
By 1911 Gertrude had died and in April 1912 Lawrence boarded the ship
Titanic for a trip to America and then on to Canada to see his brother
Frank who had emigrated to Toronto
When the ship was struck by an Ice Berg and began to sink Lawrence managed
to gain a seat in the last lifeboat to be launched and upon reaching land
after a time wrote a book about his experiences which was accepted as part
of the enquirey into the tragedy and from which the film "A Time To
Remember" was taken (Lawrence tried to gain a small part in the film but
was refused)
On returning to England Lawrence remarried Murial Grenwood (Mollie)
He died at Lincolns Inn Field in 1867 Dodie Smith died in 1994 at
Manchester
Andrew Macbeth Solicitors have been my family solicitors from their
foundation passing through to Phillip Cash and to Mr Peter Smith of
recent years ...
Anne Marie Beesley nee James and Mary Macbeth nee James's brother
Jonathan James was also a Solicitors Clerk with Henry Beesley and Andrew
Macbeth he becoming a Solicitor in his own firm at Ashbourne
The following then is the history of the Macbeth family
Andrew Macbeth born at Newcastle Upon Tyne 29th September 1769 married
Jane Holehouse 1791 at Manchester Cathedral
Sons
Andrew Macbeth born 1802 Baptised at Wirksworth 10th March 1823 married
Isabella Spencer dau of Anthony and Ellen Spencer nee Duffield 28th
December 1826 Andrew was a Commercial Tailor at Hulme Manchester
employing at one time 25 men 17 women and 5 boy apprentices
Isaac Macbeth born 1811 Baptised 19th March 1823 married Hannah Boden
1831 daughter of Abel and Anne Boden nee Hoades Abel a Baker..of Scarthin
Nick Cromford Isaac also a Baker at St Mary's Gate Wirksworth
Known children
Thomas Alexanda Macbeth born 1834 married Ellen their daughter
Gertrude Cecile married Lawrence Beesley
Isabella born 1839 Jane Elleanor born 1846
Andrew Macbeth born 1849
Son of Isaac and Hannah Macbeth nee Boden
Andrew Macbeth born 4th November 1833 married Mary James daughter of
Thomas James Druggist and China Ware Dealer St John Street Wirksworth
originally from Haverfordwest Pembrokeshire S Wales Her sister Anne Marie
married Henry Beesley Andrew and Mary married at Duffield 16th Sept 1857
Children of Andrew and Mary Macbeth nee James
Andrew Macbeth Solicitors Clerk along with Henry Beesley at the office
where eventually Andrew Macbeth established his Solicitors Office in the
old Wirksworth Savings Bank premises previously also a Solicitors office
to Kindom and others whose name plates are still visible on the wall of
Andrew Macbeth Cash & Co today now taken over by Potter & Co of Matlock ...
Henry Beesley in time left the Solicitors practice and became a Bank Clerk
at Capital & Counties Bank where once Richard Arkwright & Co were Bankers
previously owned and founded by John Toplis of Pratt Hall Pratt Hall Lane
above Gorsey Bank off St Helens Lane in 1780 By the late 1890s Henry was
Manager at Wirksworth Capital & Counties (in the 1900s taken over by Lloyds
of London and then became Lloyds T.S.B.) In the early 1900s Henry Beesley
became Area Manager based at Manchester living for a time at The Trevelyan
Temperance Hotel Corporation Street Manchester his wife and children living
at Bank Terrace Wirksworth (became The Causeway )
Footnote In the 1860s my Grt Grandfather Joseph
Walker renovated what is now Lloyds Bank (Joseph born 1815 married 3 times
his 3rd wife Martha Sheldon married 1867 my true Grt Grandmother his 1st
wife Anne Wright being of my blood kin via my 6XGrandfather Robert Frost
on Flint's he her 3XGrandfather and my 7XGrandfather William Wheatcroft
Cauldwell - Sheldon - Walkers )he Anne Wrights 4XGrandfather
Isaac Macbeth born 1860 married Emma 1891 Isaac owned an Antique and
Furniture Shop on Coldwell Street Wirksworth Had a son Alec Leslie in 1893
Elizabeth Macbeth born 1858 married Arthur Garside Heard Commercial
Traveller son of Hiram Heard Solicitor
I am in contact with the Grandson of Lawrence Beesley
Regards Stuart G Flint
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