Updated 27 Nov 2009
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WIRKSWORTH Parish Records 1600-1900
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Stuart Flint
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Stuart Flint of Wirksworth  ,
over the years, has regularly sent
the webmaster emails packed full of genealogical and historical
information, a veritable goldmine. Up till now, I have managed
to keep pace with his input, placing the information on an
appropriate existing webpage. However, I have recently fallen
behind, and now have to resort to placing them all on this page,
with an index, and trusting to the wonders of Google to find
the information you, gentle reader, are seeking. I hope Stuart
does not mind if I let the world into a private joke between him
and me: I have always said he is related to everyone in Wirksworth.
I will let the reader judge for himself.
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Newspaper report demise of Emma Goodall
5 Apr 2009 |
The following is the family of Mather and Goodall
GOODALLS
Richard Goodall married Anne Jepson of Middleton in 1804
Son
Joseph Goodall born 1815 married Pheobe Spencer December 29th 1836
FOOTNOTE Pheobe Spencer was daughter of Peter and Hannah Spencer nee
Porter (Potter) Peter a Butcher / Farmer who lived at Hallicar Lanes
Middleton where my Sheldon family also lived
Pheobe's sister Mary Spencer married John Flint son of my 4XUncle and
Aunt Robert and Sarah Flint nee Allen of Bolehill
Sarah Flint nee Allen died in 1829 . Robert and his sons John Flint
born 1815 who married Mary Spencer and William Allen Flint who married
Elizabeth Slack daughter of my 3XUcle and Aunt Samuel and Sarah Slack
nee Land of Middleton (Sarah sister of Hannah Land who married James
Smith of Carsington they my 2XGrandparents ..Samuel Slack also my wifes
and my kinsman ) Robert, John and William and wives and children then
born became members of The Latter Day Saints. and in 1850 emigrated to
Kays Ward now known as Kaysville Utah... Letitia Flint, Roberts daughter
married Elijah West of Ockbrook near Derby he a Priest in the L.D.S. who
often preached about Joseph Smiths new Latter Day Saints under an Oak
tree in Hallams Yard Bolehill where also Elizabeth Evans Aunt of George
Eliot, Jesse Sheldon of my kin and Billy Higginbottom of Belper also
Preached
I have been in contact with the Flints of Layton Kaysville and St George
Utah for many years and in August 2008 attended a Family Reunion organised
by the Broughs and Flints of Utah at Meersbrook Leek Staffordshire when
over 60 members of the Utah family came to UK and with a further 70 +
Broughs and my wife daughter and I representing the Flint family..we met
to share family history ..)
Son of Joseph and Pheobe Goodall nee Spencer
James Goodall born March 2nd 1848 married Emma Mather daughter of Samuel
and Sarah Mather nee Spencer May 30th 1870
MATHERS
Robert Mather married Sarah Moor of Middleton July 9th 1767
Son
Robert Mather married Elizabeth Wragg of Middleton she of my wifes kin
June 16th 1796
Son
Samuel Mather born 1804 married Sarah Spencer July 26th 1827
Children of Samuel and Sarah Mather nee Spencer
1.Robert Mather born 1828 married Anne Goodall daughter of Joseph Goodall
April 18th 1850
2.Hannah Mather born 1830 married Thomas Buckley son of Thomas October 1855
3.Elizabeth Mather born 7th April 1833
4.Twins Thomas and Samuel born 1836
Samuel married Pheobe Spencer May 28th 1863 daughter of Francis Spencer
5.George Mather born 1839 obt aged 17 years
6.Edward Mather born 1844
7.Millicent Mather born 1841 married 1st husband Daniel Doxey having sons
John who married Elizabeth Hayward and George who married Sarah Kilkenny
dau of Dominic and Sarah Kilkenny nee Adams Sarah my kin via Killers..
Dominic originally from County Mayo Ireland. George Doxey's family
thereafter becoming known as Kilkenny Doxey heirs of whom are my wife and
my relations /friends today.. George Doxey was killed at Killer Bros Quarry
1900 5 years before my Grandfather William Flint was killed at Killer Bros
December 5th 1905
Millicent Doxey widow of Daniel Doxey on the demise of Daniel married as
her 2nd husband William Evans who was my wife's Gr Gr Uncle whose son
Herbert Evans married Sarah Killer their sons William Evans who married
Ida Bateman their daughter living near my home today and George Evans a
School Teacher who was my Form Master at Middleton Junior School in the
1940s ..Herbert Evans's nephew Herbert Evans was my wifes Grandfather who
married Sarah Jane Hall living on Sheldons Yard Duke Street Middleton the
house owned by my mother's Sheldon family..Herbert Evans daughter is my
mother in law..Herbert and Sarah Jane also reared Eric Sheldon of my kin
at their house Eric and his brother Albert Sheldon owning Shellards Quarry
Griffe Grange in the 1950s / 60s now owned by Standcliffe Stone
8.Emma Mather born 1849 married James Goodall May 30th 1870 James Goodall
born March 2nd 1848 at Killers Yard Middleton (Killers Yard is opposite
Middleton Junior School one time cottages stretching further up the bankside
towards where the quarry was founded by William Killer my 3XUncle...In
recent years my wife and my kinsmen of Spencer and Harrison lived at
Killers Yard..)
Children of James and Emma Goodall nee Mather
FOOTNOTE
James Goodall was a Lead Miner at Mill Close Lead Mine Warren Carr near
Darley Bridge
He had to walk nearly 6 miles to work walking from Middleton down Bonsall
Wood and then over Bonsall Moor into Winster and then down into Warren Carr
where the mine was..
My father told me about how that many Middleton men worked at Mill Close
Mine up to the mid 1930s and when they were coming home after a 12 hour
shift they could be seen wending their way up Bonsall Wood by the light of
their Mining Lamps..As the cottages they lived in where small and cramped
it was often the case that as one man climbed out of bed to go on shift
another would take his place
1.Anne Goodall born 1871 married Ernest Wilson Shoemaker of Cromford 1893
Their daughter Emma Wilson married Joseph Gould whose son today is retired
Deputy Head Master at Anthony Gell School he also my kin via Sheldon
Longden and Frost
His sister and her husband James Allen were close friends of my family both
deceased .. James Allen being Manager of Middleton Football Club when my
brother and his pals made up the team in the 1950s see John Palmers Old
Photograph pages
2.Samuel born 1881
3.Thomas born 1879
4.Emma born 1885
5.Pheobe born 1889
6.George born 1887
7.Sarah born 1892
FOOTNOTE
The Gould family in the mid 1800s were Spar Turners of Matlock Bath and
Scarthin Nick Cromford..who with my fellow kinsmen William Walthall
Joseph Fletcher Charles Wildgoose and Samuel Smith lived for a time at
Madron near Penzance Cornwall where they worked at The Serpentine Works
Charles Wildgoose being the Foreman ..Serpentine is similar to Blue John
in that many statues and other products were made of the Marble
My kinsman Joseph Fletcher remained at Penzance and founded a Marble Works
there..
In Penzance Cathedral is a Statue made of Serpentine by Joseph Fletcher
he having married Marie Jones daughter of my 3XUncle and Aunt Peter and
Mary Jones nee Flint..Their heir today is my friend and kinsman who lives
near Gloucester owning a Riding Stable
Samuel Smith was son of my 2XUncle and Aunt William and Sarah Smith nee
Walker he eventually owning The Royal Museum Matlock Bath once owned by
John Mawe who was a Botanist, Samuel was Apprentice to Walker & Vallance ..
John Vallance having been Mawes Manager William Smith, Samuels father
being Head Gardener at The Botancial Gardens Heights of Abraham Samuel
Smiths son William taking over The Royal Museum into the 1930s ..
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Arkwright information
11 Feb 2009 |
You may like to have the following information which I have been researching
and proofing for over 7 years ..I have recently been invited to join the
Killer family MY Heritage site by Iain Keiller who is of my kinship and
having viewed his site much of my own research has been proved correct ..
His Father some years ago organised a Killer Family Reunion wich I attended
First the following is information taken from certain papers belonging to
the Arkwright family which I have access to and which have been catalogued
recently by friends of mine who are members of the Barmote Court Wirksworth
24th April 1778 Exchange of lands between Thomas Hallett Hodge and George
Kilhare of Matlock Miner Maiden Close and Buntings Croft between Matlock
and Cromford George Kilhare was son of Thomas and Sarah Kilhare of Bunting
Croft Starkholmes nr Matlock .Thomas Kilhare was brother of my 6XGrandfather
Adam Kilhare who married Sarah Banks of Cromford....Buntings Croft was on
the Willersley Castle side of Starkholmes Maidens Croft on the St Giles
Church side of Starkholmes which Hallett Hodges procured some years before..
(on 19th October 1753 William Milnes surrendered to William Soresby
(Chesterfield) of lands including Maidens Croft, Far Maidens Croft
Ridstone Meadow and Mesne Torr Fields On 11th September 1755 William
Soresby surrendered the above to Peter Nightingale and on April 22nd 1778
Peter Nightingale surrendered the above to Thomas Hallett Hodge
Footnote see history of Thomas Hallett Hodge at end of this e mail
1st April 1760 and 2nd April 1760 Joseph Fox and wife to John Higgett of
Cromford lease for possession, house and lands at Starkholmes (Woodseats
Farm top of Willersley Lane) Joseph Fox was son of Joseph and Anne Fox nee
Brailsford This Fox family is of my wifes family and also of my family via
Killers and Brailsfords of Middleton
Footnote
Samuel Carden (also spelt in later years as Carding) married Mary Flint
1677..Samuel and Mary lived at Common Wood now known as Artists Corner
Carden and Flints owned partnerships at Nestus Lead Mine Matlock Bath now
known as Rutland Cavern Heights of Abraham where Benjamin Bryan of my
allied kin was a Guide and part owner )
Pedigree of my wifes family of Carden Carding Fox Blackham Hall and Evans
Samuel and Mary Carding nee Flints son Samuel married Anne Wood 1708 their
son Solomon married Mary Wood whose daughter Mary married Samuel Fox of
Starkholmes
Samuel and Mary Fox nee Cardings son Solomon Fox a Hatter of Starkholmes
married Anne Robinson of Cromford ..Solomon and Anne Fox's son George Fox a
Building Contractor married Harriett Blackham dau of Ambrose Blackham of
Wash Green Wirksworth Their daughter Emma Fox married John Thomas Hall
whose daughter Sarah Jane Hall married Herbert Evans they my wifes
Grandparents
George and Harriett Fox nee Blackham's 2nd cousin Timothy Fox of Starkholmes
a Stone Cutter born 1838 married Anne Willan Killer in 1861 Anne Willans
Killer daughter of my 3XUncle and Aunt William and Mary Killer nee
Willans ..William Killer Founder of Killers Quarry Middleton When Timothy
died Anne lived for a time with the George Farnsworth of my brothers wifes
family at Lane Head (top of Willersley Lane) She then married William
Batterley they living at Middleton, Battlerleys my sister in laws allied
kin via Slack's who are also of my wifes family
William Killers 2nd wife on Mary nee Willans demise was Anna Brownson dau
of my Gr Gr Uncle and Aunt John and Elizabeth Brownson nee Walker
Elizabeth sister of my Grt Grandfather Joseph Walker William and Anna
Killer nee Brownson's son Samuel Thomas Killer married Elizabeth Mather
who again was of my wifes Mather family who also adopted my Aunt Harriett
Janet Fields Flint nee Woodiwisse also known as Dolly Mather
The Brownsons of my kin have a pedigree stretching back to Major Johannes
Conradt Molinus who with Sir Cornelius Vermuyden oversaw the digging of
The Dovegange Sough where my 8XGrandfather Henry Coates was Mining Agent
to Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and Sir Robert Heath..Anna Killer nee Brownsons
sister Elizabeth married into my sister in laws Farnsworth and Sims family .
Major Johannes Molinus was a Commander in Sir John Gells Derbyshire Regiment
of Foot who fought on the side of Cromwell on the 1642 Civil War, as was my
other kinsman Captain Thomas Collinson whose allied kin are also my
Wheatcroft family ..Jane Wheatcroft my 7XAunt being mother of Samuel
Collinson her illigit son alias Wheatcroft who married Catherine Molinus
Grandaughter of Major Molinus aforementioned as his 2nd wife after his
1st wife Mary Spencer of Middleton ..
Ella Fox who married Herbert Smith was of this same Fox Family of
Starkholmes Ella Smith nee Fox founded with her husband The Matlock
Mercury ..
10th May 1787 Assignment for 1,000 years in Manor of Cromford from Urban
Hall and Richard Nall by direction of Mr Milnes and wife and Peter
Nightingale to Rev Peter Manlove for regaining £10,000 and interest
7/4/1789 Rev Manlove by direction of Peter Nightingale and Sir Richard
Arkwright to Mr John Toplis ..Assignement of 1,000 years in The Manor of
Cromford ..In Trust to attend the inheritance for Sir Richar4d Arkwright
Footnote John Toplis founded a Bank at Wirksworth in 1782 which by 1820
Sir Richard Arkwrights son Richard Arkwright was a partner (Arkwright &
Toplis) Richard Arkwright in 1823 took over the bank it known then as
Richard Arkwright & Co . By the 1890s Henry Beesley of my kin was Manager
there when known as Capital & Counties Bank..
In the 1900s Lloyds Bank took it over now known as LLoyds T.S.B. In 1863
my Grt Grandfather Joseph Walker renovated the bank he having also built
Crompton & Evans Bank (now NatWest) Market Place Wirksworth and Wirksworth
Baptist Church Joseph Walker & Sons also built railway property on the
L&NW Railway amd Midland Railway lines Gloucester Station being one such,
also parts of the Wirksworth - Duffield line
Footnote Joseph Walker born 1815 married 3 times his 3rd wife Martha nee
Sheldon my true Grt Grandmother married 1867..
8th April 1789 Peter Nightingale Esq. to Sir Richard Arkwright .. Release
of The Manor of Cromford and parcel of land within Manor of Matlock
7th April 1789 Ditto to Ditto Lease for Possession
20th June 1682 Deeds relating to Brownes Wood and payment of £750.00
by John Spateman. Recites that William Hopkinson at his decease was seized
of Browns Wood and Whitefield (on the north side of Derwent except two
smelting Mills called Lums Smelting Mills )
30th May 1700 Indenture John Spateman to Thomas Hoades possession of Browns
Wood and Whitfield adjoining to Bow Wood (Boughwood) Cromford Bridge End By
the mid 1700s the Wakebridge family purchased Bow Wood who then left it to
the Poles who sold it on to Peter Nightingale
Footnote
Thomas Hoades was my 7XGrandfather (S G Flint) John Spateman married
Millicent Wigley of Seniorsfield Wigley's being of my kin..
10th July 1712 Will of Thomas Hoades of Wirksworth ..This includes shares
left to his wife in Ratchwood Founder, Orchard and Ravenstor Groves Lead
Mines and shares in other meers to his son William Hoades
Footnote William Hoades was my 6XGrandfather
Thomas Hoades was a partner with Robert Greensmith of the mines at
Ravenstor Ratchwood and Orchard (also Thisley Mines ) Colehills twixt
Bolehill and Rise End Middleton..I purposely state it this way as
Steeplegrange was not established as such until Robert Greensmith built
his Grange and estate on the strength of his mining investments ..In 1760
Sir Richard Arkwright purchased The Grange from Greensmiths on Steeple
Hill demolishing the estate and using all the block gritstone to build his
first Mill on Willersley Road now called Mill Lane
14th October 1792 Richard Arwkright Esq (son of Sir Richard Arkwright) to
Mr Samuel Simpson of a moitey of leasehold premises in Great Longstone and
Bakewell and a moitey of machinery in a Cotton Mill for consideration of
£21.000
Samuel Simpson along with his brother John Simpson were brothers in law to
Richard Arkwright, Richards wife being Mary Simpson of Bonsall dau of Adam
and Elizabeth Simpson nee Oldham Adam nephew of my 5XGrandfather Peter
Simpson Peter Simpson being son of James and Grace Simpson nee Wigley the
Wigleys being of Seniorsfield where in time Bridge House at foot of
Willersley Lane was built and where the Evans family lived for a time
related to Peter Nightingale.. Wigleys also of Wigwell Grange and Middleton
Hall I have their pedigree back to 1450 Wigwell Grange was purchased by
Wigleys in the 1500s when Anthony Babbington who owned the estate was hanged
for his part in the Treason against Queen Elizabeth 1st ..My Brownson
family of Glasgow were Stewards to Mary Queen of Scots in this era when
she was incarcerated in Wingfield Manor and Tutbury Castle by the Earl of
Shrewsbury
The Earl of Shrewsbury owned lands in the Cromford area and is mentioned
in the papers I have re Arkwright estate
William Soresby (the name also spelt in other records Sowerby)
In the documents I have viewed William Soresby is named as having purchased
in 1664 a title from Lady Armyne who endowed the Alm Houses on Bede House
Lane Cromford (Dame Mary Armyne nee Talbot daughter of Henry Talbot son of
4th Earl of Shrewsbury ..she having married Sir William Armyne Bart)
The Soresbys it would seem lived in the early 1600s at Wirksworth removing
to Youlgreave and then to Chesterfield
The Soresbys (Sowerbys) married into the Milnes family of Ashford In The
Water whose kin married into the Gells of Hopton Hall (Dorothy Milnes
married Phillip Gell in 1723 Sheriff of Derbyshire..whilst William Milnes
of Aldecar was also Sheriff of Derbyshire 1740s who married Mary Soresby
sister of William Soresby in 1748)
William Soresby named in the Arkwright documents married Helen Wright in
1694 ..It is mentioned in the papers that on the 12th September 1758
Arkwrights had a copy of his will dated 6th April 1749 and it is also
recorded that on the 9th May 1760 a disposition of his effects was made
with the rider stating that "William Soresby was an English Gentleman of
Chesterfield Derbyshire dwelling in the City of Liege for several years"
The Wrights built Longstone Hall Gr Longston Thomas Wright rebuilding the
Hall Wrights have lived at Grt Longstone for over 700 years Allied
members of this family included Ichobod Wright a Banker at Nottingham who
financed Sir Richard Arkwright when Arkwright first built his Mills Wright
being the man who bought together Samuel Needs and Jedediah Strutt into
a partnership with Arkwright
Soresby's were also related to Thomas Bagshaw of The Ridge Chapel en le
Frith also related by marriage to the Hurts of Alderwasley Hall I have
documentary evidence of all these families
Thomas Hallett Hodges born at Harworth Nottingham 1750 married Dorothy
Carwright of Marnham Hall Marnham Nottinghamshire (near Newark) on 9th
February 1775 daughter of William and Anne Cartwright nee Cartwright
Anne dau of George Cartwright of Ossington Hall William and Anne being
2nd cousins
The Cartwright family were long time residence of Marnham and Ossington
Halls Edmund Cartwrigtt son of William and Anne being the inventor of
the Weaving Loom which Sir Richard Arkwright purchased another son of
William and Anne being Major John Cartwright who in later years after a
brilliant Army career became involved as a radical Anti Slave Trade
supporter ...
Thomas Hallett Hodges purchased the Manor of Cromford from Edmund Hodgkinson
who had purchased it from Edward Lascelles related to the D'arcy family who
were kin of the Duke of Kingston Upon Hull and the Pierrpoint family Henry
Talbot son of the Earl of Shrewsbury also having a stake in the Manors of
Cromford and Matlock before which The Manors of Willersley had belonged to
Richard Minors in the reign of Henry V1..
Thomas Hallett Hodges and Dorothy in 1782 sold the Manor of Cromford to Sir
Richard Arkwright..The land upon which Arkwright built his Castle was
originally in part land and crofts owned by the Kilhares Fox Knowles
Cardens Westons Higtons families which Hodges purchased over just a short
period of years before selling on to Sir Richard Arkwright for some great
profit..
Thomas Hallett Hodges owned Hempstead Park Benenden near Cranbrook Kent
which no doubt in part if not entirely was purchased via the means of the
Cartwrights family wealth ..Hallett Hodges was Sheriff of Kent and also
Bailiff to the King for the Seven Hundred district of Kent he holding
Court Leets to collect the tithes..
Hallett Hodges daughter Elizabeth Hodges married Rev Frederick Hotham son
of Beaumont Hotham 2nd Baron Hotham of Dalton
Direct Kilhare family of my kin
Richard Kyllar born Youlegreave
Son
George Kilhare born 1530 married Elizabeth Ball of Matlock
son
Frances Kilhare of Youlgreave
son
George Kilhare born 1603 married Elin Mecocke
son
George Kilhare married Catherine Holden of Matlock they living at Bow Wood
near Willersley George a Woodsman Their Grandson George Kilhare exchanged
a parcel of land called Buntings Croft owned by Kilhares and Buntings
(Thomas Killer, brother of my 6XGrandfather Adam Killer.. Thomas being
George's father married into the Buntings of Starkholmes)
Hallett Hodges owned another parcel of land on the St Giles side of
Starkholmes called Maidens Croft which George exchanged Buntings Croft for
eventually sold by Hallett Hodges along with other crofts and land to Sir
Richard Arkwright along with The Manors of Cromford
son
Adam Killer married Sarah Banks of Cromford Adam a Woodsman Bow Wood
son
Adam Killer married Rebcca Coates of Cromford Adam a Woodsman at Bow Wood
son
Adam married Anne Maddock of Bonsall living at Bonsall Adam a Joiner
son
John Killer Joiner / Engineer married Mary Hawley of Matlock daughter of
William and Mary Hawley nee Henstock ..Mary dau of Edward and Mary Henstock
nee Frost of Slaley Hall Edward owning Land and Lead Mines on Slaley Moor
his sister Edith married Paul Prince whose nephew Samuel Prince married
into the Flint and Simpson family of The Study Manor House Bonsall..Simpsons
my kin via my 5XGrandfather Peter Simpson whose Gr Neice Mary married
Richard Arkwright son of Sir Richard Arkwright
daughter
Mary Killer born 1808 married Samuel Flint 1830
son
Henry Flint born 1836 married Emily Crofts of Cromford dau of David and
Susannah Crofts nee Birch of Wooley Moor David a Wheelwright and Carpenter
at Cromford
son
William Flint born 1863 married Gwenillian Sprake of Blaenafon South Wales
1886 Gwenillian dau of Edwin and Leah Anne Sprake ..Edwin a Manager Bleanafon
Iron & Steel Works Leah Anne born at Upper Llanover Edwin born Scotland
(Ross and Cromarty of Huguenot origin.).William Flint was killed at Killer
Bros Quarry Hopton Wood Stone 5th December 1905
son
Harry Sprake Flint born 1894 married Kathleen Walker Christmas Day 1937
Children
Jennifer Anne Flint married Rev Arthur Macgregor Brown deceased Methodist
Minister
Prison Chaplin Walton Prison Liverpool afterwards Wakefield Prison Mac born
at Wallsend Upon Tyne Supt Methodist Minister in areas of Derbyshire
(Wirksworth Circuit Probationer Minister living at The Mews Willersley
Castle) Swanwick (Circuit Minister Ripley Circuit) Liecestershire
(Bottesford/Bingham Circuit) Liverpool (Toxteth / Bootle Circuit) Sheffield
(Woodseats Totley Circuit) Horbury (Horbury Junction Circuit) and Dewsbury
Circuit West Yorkshire ..
John Malcolm Flint married Jennifer Farnsworth daughter of James and Evelyn
Farnsworth nee Boden John Retired Bank Manager lives near Newark Notts
Stuart Gordon Flint married Veronika Steube dau of Wilhelm and Dorothy
Steube nee Evans both born at Middleton By Wirksworth
I am researching more of the history of Willersley Castle and the Arkwrights
plus others of my kin who sold land to Hallett Hodges which you may find
of some interest at a leter date
Regards Stuart G Flint
In the Arkwright documents are records of wills in the name of John Flint
of Holloway and Stephen and Samuel Hall of my allied kin Stephen Hall
being my 5XUncle he having married Ruth Henstock sister of Mary Henstock
who married William Hawley they my 4XGrandparents Samuiel Hall son of
Stephen Hall married into the Wager family of Grt Longstone Crich and
Wirksworth whilst Stephen's Grandson John Stephen Hall married into the
Charlton family of Brassington Hall..It is recorded that Samuel Hall owned
land on Wirksworth Moor which he sold to the Nightingales I have read
Stephen Halls will which is part of the Arkwright documents..
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Walker/Ince
14 Jan 2009 |
.... the following is a re run of the Walker / Ince connections with
hopefully less errors.. The Walkers were of my father's family as such via
Frosts but also via Hoades and Shaw are my mothers family
John Walker born 1717 married Ruth Frost sister to my 5XGrandfather John
Frost who married Esther Hill John and Esther's daughter Mary married
John Flint they my 4XGrandparents
Children
1.Robert Walker Butcher / Farmer of Bolehill married Rachael Cooke
(not Ruth as on Ince Ped) of Matlock
2.Thomas Walker born 1734 an officer in the British army (British 5th
Regiment of Foot The Redcoats) killed on action at the Battle of Bunkers
Hill (Breeds Hills) Charlestown Massachussetts America 1775 under the
Command of Major General William Howe Commander of the British Forces
with General Sir George Clinton his 2nd in Command..
3.Samuel Walker born 1736 Survived The Battle of Bunkers Hill married to
a Colonial lady after the war settling at Phildelphia having several
offspring
4.Ruth Walker born 1752 marr Henry Maskrey of Gorsey Bank Wirksworth
Maskreys of this family being Stonemasons married into my mothers Walker
family up to the 1880s
5.Jane Walker born 1746 married Matthew Hoon of Kirk Ireton
6.Mary Walker born 1739 married George Austin of Mill House Green Wirksworth
7.John Walker born 1741Woolcomber married three times 1st wife Jane Fox..
Their daughter Sarah Jane Walker married George Dale Gent of Nottingham
whose son George Tertius Dale married Margaret Ince the daughter of Thomas
Norris Ince Solicitor and Genealogist of Wirksworth he the author and
originator of the Ince Pedigrees..John Dale another son of George and Sarah
Jane Dale nee Walker married Margarets sister Catherine
John 2nd wife was Anne Hibbert his 3rd wife being Lydia Roe she kin of
the Sleigh family whose fore bare Truth Sleigh married into the Dale
family of the Parwich..
The Sleighs were Solicitors at Hartington Matlock and at Leek Staffordshire
In Elizabeth Flint's will of 1905 of which I have a copy she leaves a
legacy to John Sleigh of Wensley born at Hartington he a Solicitor at
Matlock whose family had a Manorial Home at Wensley on the land where
today Eversleigh Rise is situated just below the Church and across from
Flint Lane.. Elizabeth Flint was dau of Dr Charles Flint of Hartington
F.R.C.S. who was Medical Officer of Health the first such positon created
by Staffordshire Moorlands Council in the 1820s when a Cholera outbreak
took place in the town his partner being Dr James Brindley.. Charles Flint
and Elizabeth are remembered on Monuments in Hartington Parish Church ..
Charles Flint was born at The Old Vicarage Hartington to Cornelius Flint
who was The Duke of Devonshires Mining Agent at Ecton Copper Mine..
Cornelius was the son of Rev Joshua Flint born at Great Longstone he cousin
to my 6XGrandfather Abraham Flint Elizabeth a spinster who died in 1905
at her home at Leek was the last of her Branch of the Flints.. Her
Solicitor's were Challinor & Badnall of Leek which became known as
Challinor & Shaw ..Challinor & Badnall were also Solicitors acting on behalf
of my / my wifes family of Killer Slacks and Doxeys of Middleton I have
seen a conveyance document signed by Challinors of a house and a butchers
Slaughterhouse which belonged to the Killers who sold the property to the
Slacks of Middleton, the documents counter signed by George Slack and
William Killer George Slacks son Douglas Slack was my father's best man
when Dad married Kathleen Walker in 1937, Douglas and my father Harry Flint
being friends and fellow Deacons at Middleton Congregational Church, Slacks
being of my wifes kin.. Douglas's daughter and myself were made Deacons
at Middleton Congregational Church in 1964 at the same induction service
led by Pastor Frank Brown minister at Middleton Congregational Church who
was a Director of Browns Foundry Derby a retired Lt in the Fleet Air Arm
deceased.(Canada).. William Killer was a Butcher his allied kin being my
Axe and Jones family he of the Killers who owned Killers Quarry Douglas
Slacks Half sisters were my Aunt Ada Flint nee Petts who married Dads
brother John Samuel Flint and Lillian Harrison nee Petts wife of Norman
Harrison he my kin via Hoades Land and Brookes of my mothers family
A present day member of the Badnall family is my fellow family researcher
his wife a member of my Axe allied family (Samuel Axe married Roseanne
Slack my wifes 3XAunt I lived at the house belonging to Samuel and Rosanne
Axe in my childhood ..where also my friends wife lived at one time she
Grandaughter of Samuel and Roseanne Axe) Jones and Killer family..My
friend who has researched his family has sent me the original wills of
Dr Charles Flint and Elizabeth Flint with a hand writted letter by
Cornelius Flint ..
FOOTNOTE
In Elizabeth Flints will she also left a considerable amount of money to
The Devonshire Hospital Buxton The Cruso Nursing Association Leek
Cruso's also Solicitors in Staffordshire and moneys for the upkeep of
St Edwards Church Leek where her father and brothers /sisters are buried
in a private cemetery at the rear of the church with Davenports who owned
Silk Mills at Leek and Macclesfield Cornelius Flint and his immediate
family are buried in a Iron railed tomb in Hartington Parish Church Yard ..
where Elizabeth also left moneys for its upkeep as at Longton Staffordshire
In her will she left a bequest for the provision of moneys towards the
education of poor boys of Hartington to be administered by the Vicar of
the Parish In the 1880s Elizabeth Flint sold land she owned to Leek
Town Council where The Butter Market was built she also had homes at
Fenny Bentley and owned farms and land in Staffordshire and North
Derbyshire Her father owned shares in The Cromford & High Peak Railway
Co which were left to Elizabeth also The North Staffs Railway which by
the 1890s was absorbed as was The Cromford & HP R into The London
Northwestern Railway Co..She also owned shares in the Cromford Canal Co..
The Erewash Canal Co and The Nottingham Canal Co..
Dr Charles Flints wife was Elizabeth Gough whose brother Charles Gough
was immortalised in two poems by Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth
when he was killed when he fell from Red Tarn Helvelyn in the Lake District
when on manouvers with the Volunteer Corp 1805 at Grassmere (The Volunteer
Corp an early kind of Dads Army to defend Britain in the event of Napoalian
invading our Lands )..Charles Gough was just 21 years of age having been a
prodigy of Edward Landseer the painter..It was whilst on manouvers that
Gough against his Commanding Officers advise climbed Helvelyn to paint
Red Tarn but instead it was the place of his death
I have the poems written by Scott and Wordsworth The Goughs were all
members of the Society of Friends but when Charles and then his brother
in law Dr Charles Flint joined the Quakers, because of joining the armed
forces they were disowned and yet Charles Goughs body was interred in
the Quaker burial ground Grassmere.... Edward Lanseer painted Goughs body
lying at the foot of Red Tarn with Foxie, Goughs faithful hound standing
over his master body..which in truth he did for three months before Goughs
skeletal remains were found
Back to the Walker family history
Children of Robert and Rachael Walker nee Cooke
1.Robert Walker born 29th July 1775 married Hannah Hoades dau of William
Hoades brother of my 4XGrandfather Isaac Hoades who married Anne Shaw of
Oker in 1771 at St Helens Church Darley Dale (in the year Robert was
born his Uncle's Thomas and Samuel were at war at Charlestown America)
2.Sarah Walker born 1769 married John Holmes of Bolehill
3.Hannah born 1768 married at London Husband unknown
4.All the other 6 children of Roberty and Rachael Walker nee Cooke died
of Smallpox which hit the Wirksworth area in the 1780s My 4XUncle Michael
Hall-Wigleys 5 children all died in the same outbreak as did his wife
Ellen nee Bush
Children of Robert and Hannah Walker nee Hoades
1.William Walker married Esther Biggin of Derby
2.Mary Walker born 11804 obt 1828
3.Henry Walker born 1806 married Martha Flint dau of Robert and Sarah
Flint nee Allen of Bolehill Henry and Martha lived at Steeplegrange where
Henry was a Stonemason with his brother James Walker .Robert and Sarah
Flint nee Allen were my 4XUncle and Aunt Robert brother of my 3XGrandfather
John Flint who married Elizabeth Colledge
4.Millicent Walker born 1808 married Rowland Buxton of Crich they living
at Middleton
Rowland was a relatively wealthy man and owned a Landau and Horses On
one occasion whilst travelling to Bolehill the horse was startled by
something and bolted the Landau overturned and Millicent was thrown out
striking her head on a rock..She was carried into the home of my kinsman
John Shaw nephew of Isaac and Anne Hoades nee Shaw where she died of her
injuries
5.James Walker married Elizabeth Higton 1834 James a Master Stonemason
6.Edith Walker born 1816 married William Walthall of Matlock Bath Spar
Turner who in mid life worked for Samuel Smith of my kin at workshops owned
by Smiths on Museum Parade Matlock Bath Samuel Smith went on to own The
Royal Museum Matlock Bath
7.Samuel Walker born 1816 married Mary Derbyshire dau of John Derbyshire
of Darley Dale Joiner The Derbyshires via George Derbyshire of Toad Holes
(Two Dales) Roof Slater married my 3XGrandmother Elizabeth Flint nee
Colledge's sister Margaret Colledge..
8.Daniel Walker born 1824 married Hannah Hall of Wirksworth dau of
Gamalieil Hall Master Stonemason
THE DALE FAMILY
Richard Dale of Chelmorton born 1479 marr married Alice Sterndale of
Sterndale (Earl)1502
son
Thurston Dale born 1503 marr Anne Shakeley 1528
son
Robert Dale born 1529 married Margaret or Mary Chadwick of Chelmorton
son
Tertius Dale born approx 1565 married wife unknown
son
Thomas Dale of Parwich born 1603 married Mary Platt 1634
son
Robert Dale Born 1642 married Alice Buxton of Bradbourne living at Parwich
son
Thurston Dale born 1667 married Dorothy Haynes 1692
son
Tertius Dale born 1695 married Hannah Burton 1720
son
Tertius Dale born 1735 married Mary Flower of Nottingham at High Pavement
Presbyterian Church Nottingham
son
George Dale of Nottingham Gent (Christened at High Pavement Presbyterian
Church) born 1776 married Sarah Jane Walker of Wirksworth 1801 Sarah Jane
Dale nee Walkers sister married John Ludlam of Nottingham Weaver
George and Sarah Janes sons George Tertius Dale married Margaret Ince dau
of Thomas Norris Ince Solicitor of Wirksworth John Dale married Catherine
Ince Margarets sister
Regards Start G Flint
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Longden family of Ible
13 Jan 2009 |
William Longden born 1664 married Abigail Marshall of Youlgreave
son
John Longden born 1703 married Ellen Derbyshire of Youlgreave at All
Saints Church Youlgreave 1730 John for a while lived at Sheffield
Children
1.William Longden born 1733 married Mary Goodwin
2.Martha Longden born 23 nov 1735
3.John Longden born 1738
Children of William and Mary nee Goodwin
1.Job Longden 1759 marr Martha White 2nd wife Hannah Ferne
2.William Longden born 1761
3.Rebecca Longden born 1765
4.Samuel Longden born 1768
5.John born 1757
6.Mary Longden born 1763
Children of John and Martha Longden nee White
1.Job Longden born 1793 married Elizabeth Bradley of Chesterfield
They Farmers at Ible living in the next farm to the Rains family whose
heir married William Doxey of Middleton his son a friend / distant kinsman
of mine via Killers etc.. ..
2.William Longden born 1795
3.Anne Longden born 1791 married George Marple 1813 Anne died of a
fever aged 21 yrs 1813 George Marples family is of my kin via Marples
George remarried Hannah Spencer of Middleton in 1819 they living at Ible
Children of Job and Elizabetrh Longden nee Bradley
1.Job Longden born 1829
2.Anne Longden born 1825 married John Caldwell Smith of Aldwark Grange
at Bradbourne Parish Church
3.Elizabeth Longden born 1838 married George Frost of Hillside Middleton
Stonemason. George Frosts brother James Frost marr Elizabeth Sheldon dau
of John and Mabel Sheldon nee Spencer John Sheldon son my Gr Gr Gr
Grandfather John Sheldon who marrierd Esther Storer.. James Frosts
daughter Elizabeth Frost married Robert Joseph Gould of Cromford son of
Joseph Gould who marr Julia Mitchell of Madron Penzance Cornwall
Joseph Gould was a Marble Spar Turner who with my kinmsn Samuel Smith son
of my 2XUncle and Aunt William and Sarah Smith nee Walker and Joseph
Fletcher who marr Maria Jones dau of my 3XUncle and Aunt Peter and Mary
Jones nee Flint with Charles Wildgoose of Bonsall worked for a time at
The Serpentine Marble Works Penzance
Heirs of Robert Joseph Gould live at Wirksworth and Bolehill today..
Samuel Smith was Apprentice to Vallance and Walker at what became known
as The Royal Museum Matlock Bath one time owned by John Mawe friend of
Charles Darwin. Samuel took over The Royal Museum and had Spar Turning
Workshops on Museum Parade Matlock Bath and Matlock Bank..His son William
took over the business into the early 1900s where they made artefacts from
Blue John and other Derbyshire minerals
3.Jane Longden born 1844 married my Gr Gr Uncle Samuel Joseph Sheldon 1891
son of Joseph and Elizabeth Sheldon nee Sheldon Samuels sister Martha
Sheldon married Joseph Walker 1867 as his 3rd wife they my Grt
Grandparents Their son John Walker married Annie Cauldwell they my
Grandparents
4.Joseph Longden born 1842
5.Mabel Longden born 1831 married James Rains of Winster removing to
Manchester
6.Martha Longden born 1827
7.Mary Longden born 1826 married Joseph Hall of Sheffield brother of
Ebenezer all Managing Director of Martin Hall & Co Silversmiths Broad
Street Works Sheffield Ebenezer and Joseph born on The Alley Middleton
to Gilbert and Elizabeth Hall nee Slack see my wifes Slack family history.
8.William Longden
Ebenezer and Josephs Grand fore bares were the Hall family of Middleton
who owned Goodluck Lead Mine Via Gellia in the 1750s - Caleb Hall of this
family married Hannah Flint who was sister to my 3XGrandfather John Flint
who married Elizabeth Colledge. Calebs father Gamaliel Hall who married
Mary Goodall of Middleton was killed at Goodluck Mine in 1786 whilst
climbing down the shaft. All the Jurymen who served on the Grand Jury
Wirksworth Barmote Court at Gamaliels Inquest were of my wife and my
family via Wragg (Samuel my wifes 6XGrandfather) Spencer Hall Doxey
(Jacob Doxey whose family married into my Sheldon kin) Ashover Lee
Godbehere..(Thomas my wifes kin his sister Hannah married Samuel Wragg)
The Barmaster in charge of the Inquest was Adam Simpson of The Study
Manor House Bonsall whose daughter Mary born 1755 married Richard Arkwright
son of Sir Richard Arkwright in 1780 at Bonsall Parish Church
Richard and Mary the first to live at Willersley Castle.
The Simpson family are of my own kin my 5XGrandfather being Peter Simpson
Uncle to Adam Simpson Adams sister Dorothy Simpson married Henry Flint
son of Anthony Flint of Holloway (not of my Flint kin) Henry and Dorothy
Flints daughters Sarah and then Dorothy also known as Dolly..married Samuel
Prince of Longnor 1st Sarah upon whose demise Samuel married her sister
Dorothy..(Dolly).. Samuel Prince's Uncle and Aunt Paul and Edith Prince nee
Henstock were my 6XUncle and Aunt, Edith Prince nee Henstock being sister
to my 5XGrandfather Edward Henstock of Slaley Hall who married Mary Frost
of Bonsall .
I have the record of Joseph Halls demise at Sheffield in a diary
belonging to Samuel J Sheldon I have all S.J Sheldons personal documents
and family ledgers etc in my keep some of which I have donated to Derbyshire
County Council Archives Library, S.J Sheldon being a Mine Owner Quarry
Manager and Deputy Barmaster for The Soke & Wapentake of Wirksworth and
Barmaster of Crich Liberty taking over from the Alsop family
Diary Entry Death of Joseph Hall
The late Joseph Hall. On Thursday November 2nd at West View Cottage Dore
Abbeydale Sheffield Joseph Hall died Interred in Sheffield General
Cemetery Saturday November 4th 1905
Ebenezer Hall his brother lived at Abbeydale Hall Dore Sheffield Ebenezer
married Sarah Wilkinson of Sheffield neice of John Roberts of Sheffield
the founder and former owner of Martin Hall & Co (Naylor & Roberts)
John Roberts was friend of Richard Arkwright of Willersley Castle and to
William Shore the Head master at Cromford School for Boys on North Street
Richard Arkwright being benefactor to the school where Ebenezer attended.
John Roberts asked Arkwright and Shore to choose a bright lad to become his
Apprentice at Sheffield as Roberts has no children..Ebenezer was chosen
and an arrangement was made with Gilbert Hall his father that Roberts
would in effect adopt Ebenezer. Ebenezer lived with the Roberts family at
Abbeydale Manor House which Ebenezer extended, it becoming known as
Abbeydale Hall..
The Silverware manufactured at Martin Hall & Co..Hall Marked EH today is
fetching good antique prices at specialist outlets
My wifes Great Aunt Anne Doxey nee Holmes (married in senior years to
Herbert Doxey a Draper at Middleton son of Aaron Doxey) lived at the house
on the Alley once owned by Gilbert and Elizabeth Hall nee Slack and where
of Ebenezer and Joseph Hall were born. The Halls via a branch, are of my
wifes kin.. Herbert Evans (his fore bares the Wraggs) married Sarah Jane
Hall dau of John Thomas and Emma Hall nee Fox of Brassington Herbert and
Sarah Jane Evans my wife's Grandparents
Many of my wifes family of Wragg and Slack etc left Middleton to work at
Martin Hall & Co when John Roberts left the business in Halls hands
Peter Wragg son of Nathaniel and Anne Wragg nee Spencer born at Middleton
was one of the men who left Middleton for Sheffield He eventually after
working as an accountant in the office became a Director of the firm...
Anne Spencer wife of Nathaniel and dau of Peter and Hannah Spencer was
sister to Mary Foster Spencer who married John Flint son of my 4XUncle and
Aunt Robert and Sarah Flint nee Allen who became Mormons and emigrated
to Kaysville Utah in the 1850s
FOOTNOTE
My Gr Gr Uncle Samuel Joseph Sheldon was Treasurer and Acting Secretary
of Middleton Old Friendly Society..which provided assistance to people who
were in distress either due to illlness or bereavment. I have the ledger
once owned by S.J Sheldon listing people who were payed out sums of money
and also contributors to the fund. Ebenezer Hall payed an Annual
Subscription to the fund making him a member (possibly on behalf of his
father Gilbert who remained in Middleton eventually living on Town Street
at what became known as Fountain House). Ebenezer also paid an Annual
Donation to the fund in excess of £500.00 payable at William Deacons Bank
Matlock of which he was a Director. Ebenezer was a Director and Shareholder
of The Sheffield and Rotherham Bank which in time became a part of William
Deacons opening branches at Bakewell Winster Darley Dale Matlock Bridge
(still there) The Bank today is part of The Royal Bank of Scotland..
Samuel J Sheldon was also a Member of Ashbourne Board of Guardians where
in the late 1920s my father Harry Sprake Flint was also a Board Member..
I have as photograph of all the Board Members taken in 1930 ie My father
Harry S Flint Liberal Councillor Middleton Ward on Ashbourne Rural
District Council, Daniel Slack of my wifes kin a Fellow Deacon at Middleton
Congregational Church with my father, Dan being Secretary and Convenor for
The General and Municipal Workers Union (Mines and Quarries) and Alfred
Axe of Bonsall he then in his 80s he my allied kin via Jones (his first
wife Ellen, Gandaughter of my 3XUncle and Aunt Peter and Mary Jones nee
Flint) Killer Flint Carlisle (2nd wife) and Slack (his brother Samuel
married Roseanne Slack my wife 3XAunt)
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Why I began Family Research...
11 Jan 2009 |
Mr John Palmer asked me recently to give the reason for carrying out
research into my family.. The following is some of those reasons
I was born into a loving and closely knit family at Middleton By Wirksworth
in 1942.. My father Harry Sprake Flint was born in 1894 son of William and
Guenillian Flint nee Sprake Guenillian born at Blaenafon South Wales to
Edwin and Leah Anne Sprake nee Williams Edwin was Manager at Blaenafon
Iron and Steel Works he also owner of a small brewery.. he born of Huguenot
origin..That is my first reason for researching my family as although Dad
told me a little of his Welsh family history which was sparse I was
intrigued by this family and wanted to trace back as far as I could..
(Here I have to thank Rt Rev Hackett born at Blaenafon Bishop of Glamorgan
and Mr Roynon of South Wales who searched the Monmouth and Glamorgan
Parish Registers and the Census giving me invaluable help.. Rt Rev Hacketts
wife having also givern me information as at Ecumenical Meetings she
attended on enquiring about my family was told that my father's cousin
Ethel Reece nee Sprake the wife of The Rev Reece a Baptist Minister who
lived at The Manse Mamihalad near Blaernafon had taught members of the
committee whom Mrs Hackett was meeting with.. In 1964 a year after my father
died I visited Ethel at Mamhiland who was then nearing her 70s..Ethels
sister Blodwen 's Grandaughter today lives near my sister in West
Yorkshire.. All the Rt Rev Hackett and Mr Roynon charged me for their
efforts was a donation to the charity of my choice which was Cancer
Research Campaign now known as Cancer Research UK , my father having had
skin cancer as did others of my kin.. I was a Committee Member on the
Matlock & District Branch of Cancer Research Campaign and have with my
family fund raised by organising concerts at Matlock and Wirksworth area
over the years
My Mother was born in 1916 to John and Annie Walker nee Cauldwell
Grandfather Walker being the son of Joseph and Martha Walker nee Sheldon
of Bolehill and Middleton, Martha , Joseph Walkers 3rd wife his 1st
wife Anne Wright being my blood kin as her 3XGrandfather Robert Frost was
my 6XGrandfather whilst her 4XGrandfather William Wheatcroft was my
7XGrandfather..Josephs 2nd wife was Margaret Fletcher of Wrockwardine
Wood Shropshire by whom he had most of his children Gr Gr Grandsons
living in the Wirksworth and Holloway area today.. Here is another reason
why I felt the need to find out how my family was knitted together as
Anne Wrights family were kin of the Alsop and Wass family of Lea and
Holloway whilst via Frost and Wheatcrofts way back in the 1650s - 1700s
my research has sprung many surprises ..
One of the major reasons though was when a relative of mine via Flints
Mrs Lillian Harrison nee Petts dau of John James Petts of Middleton
Lillian the wife of Councillor Norman Harrison both deceased ..Lillians
sister Ada nee Petts of Middleton married my father's brother John Samuel
Flint a Steam Engine Driver based near Crewe The Harrison family were
also of my mothers Land and Brookes family of Bolehill
Mrs Harrison often told me about my Grt Grandfather Henry Flint and how
his life was badly affected when his wife Emily nee Crofts of Cromford
daughter of David and Susannah Crofts nee Birch of Wooley Moor David a
Master Carpenter and Wheelwright working for Arkwrights.. Emily drowned
in Bonsall Mill Weir when on her way to see her brother John Crofts who
was a School Master at Bonsall Free Grammar School.. Henry who had been
a Station Master at Parsley Hay Station on the Ashbourne to Buxton Branch
line of the London North Western Railway which linked with the Cromford &
High Peak Railway at Friden where Henry was also Wharfinger.. By the 1870s
the branch lines of the London North Western Railway in the Hartington area
were losing trade to the main lines Derby to Manchester and in time all
that the Cromford & HPR was carrying was quarry product who employed their
own staff to load the wagons at the various sidings along the way.. Henry
was made redundant and returned to Middleton living on Bonsall Lanes in a
house belonging to one of my Slack family at the head of Bonsall Wood
also known as The Lanes Middleton
On returning to Middleton Henry became a Scapler in his Uncle William
Killers Quarry Hopton Wood Stone Works.. Henry after Emily's demise
apparently could not face life without her and became a recluse and relied
heavily on the public house seeking to find solace in a bottle of ale..
When Mrs Harrison told me about old Henry I felt the need to find out more
about him and whether the tales told about him were true.. and this started
me out on the quest in my late teens and into my 20s to find answers..
By the time of the 1970s having stalled in my quest I decided to renew my
efforts and with the onset of the Computer age and having studied
Genealogy and how to find out about family history I began again to delve
into the mysteries surrounding old Henry.. By this time Mr and Mrs
Harrison and I were fellow Deacons at Middleton Congregational Church my
wife and I also Joint Sunday School Superintendents there as my father had
been before me.. Every now and again Henry's name would come up in
conversation and eventually I found out why my father could never bring
himself to speak about Henry Flint and why Dad became an opponent of
alcohol and encouraged me to be the same ..but that is another story which
may be told one day ..
I have managed to trace much of my family back in time in some cases to
the 1380s whilst I have relations in all parts of the world who I regularly
contact ie Australia U.S.A. New Zealand Germany Chanel Isles Scotland
and Wales In the early years of 2000 I made contact with my Flint family
who went out from Bolehill and Middleton as members of The Latter Day
Saints to Kaysville Utah.. I worked through the International Phone Book
after midnight ringing any Flint living in the Kaysville or Ogden area for
from a book I had, giving the names of Flints living in Utah state I had
some idea of my kinsmen Eventually I contacted David Flint of Layton
who told me that his father Paul Spencer Flint of St George Utah was
Gr Gr Grandson of John Flint of Bolehill who had married Mary Foster
Spencer of Middleton and that John and Mary's son John Flint had married
Martha Brough whose former family had lived at Longton and Upper Hulme
near Leek Staffordshire going out to Salt Lake City in the 1860s as Mormons
In August of 2008 my wife daughter and I attended a Brough / Flint family
reunion at Meerbrooke near Leek when over 70+ members of the Utah Brough
family of Mormons with as many more of their families of the Leek area
and Stoke On Trent..I was the only Flint representative present but was
made to feel part of their family never the less (in fact just before
writing this email one of the members of the Broughs who live near
Upper Hulme today and attended the reunion has contacted me which I have
written a reply )
I met with the President of The Brough Family Organisation Richard Brough
who lives in West Jordon Utah and he has put me in touch with many of my
Flint family living at Salt Lake City today ie Loujean Flint who along
with Cynthia Doxey who is kin of my friend and distant kinsman via
Killers of Middleton W H Doxey of Wirksworth and John Palmer Web Master
of the Wirksworth Web Pages, are senior Lecturers at Brigham Young
University Salt Lake City Cynthia a noted expert on Genealogy... Loujean
Flint is a Board Member of the Brough Family Organisation ..
All in all I find family research to be most productive and to be a great
way of spending my time now that I am somewhat disabled.. I have found
so many new friends along the way and many pleasant surprises along the
way .. I always have believed that we all need to know from whence we
come..I do not go along with those who say as some of my own do that it
is a waste of time to look back at our heritage.. Having studied in some
depth my own family background it has helped to put in perspective my own
life .. We forget from whence we come at our peril and in a sense it is
a selfishness not to remember those of our forebares who sacrificed much
so that we can enjoy a more fruitful and more prosperous life style What
our nation is going through at the moment is nothing compared with how
our Grand fore bares had to live and exist.. As with Remembering our War
Dead every year we should never forget what our parents and Grand fore
bares have done for us. that is why even though I am not a member of
The Latter Day Saints I have great respect for them as they are aware
more than other faiths of what we owe to our family of yesteryear.
Regards Stuart G Flint..
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Spencer/Webster family of Ashover/Tansley/Hulland/Wirksworth
4 Jan 2009 |
I hope I am not sending you to much family research but the Spencers of
this family who were allied kin of Websters were also associated with the
Smedley Smith family of Lea Mills and Tansley
I first became intertested in the Webster and Spencer family when I
found that Mrs Kathleen Killer who lives next door to Killers Bakery
St Mary's Gate she the widow of Adam Killer of my kin was of the
Webster family and via Websters related to the Smith and Spencer family
of Tansley and Ashover..
Mrs Killers Grandparents in the 1850s left Wirksworth to live in New
Zealand with their sibling family By 1890s her Grandfather Thomas
Webster was forced to return to Wirksworth when his Tatlow family of
Tape Manufacturers left mills at the foot of Gorsey Bank to Websters
in wills..Thomas Webster took over the Tape Mill on Mill Yard it
situated by the side of the Wirksworth - Duffield Railway line the
Mills known in my youth as Greens Tape Mill (if you wish a photograph
of the mill I can get one although today the mills are used for other
trades )
WEBSTER history
William Webster born at Kirk Ireton 1729 to John and Hannah Webster
nee Mart
Sons
1.John Webster married Esther Smith
2.William Webster married Sarah Woodhouse of Atlow
3.Joseph Webster married Elizabeth Wright
Children of John and Esther
1.Thomas Webster born 1769 Shoe Maker married Mary Howse of Biggin By
Hulland
2.John Webster married ..... Bland of The Hollies Muggington near Hulland
3.Alice Webster married William Brown Farmer of Hulland Ward Gate marr
at Wirksworth Parish Church..Browns related to my Killer family by marriage
Children of William and Sarah Webster nee Woodhouse
1.William Webster of Biggin Bby Hulland married ....Tomlinson of
Sturtston near Ashbourne A present day member of this Tomlinson family
lives near Mayfield Ashbbourne
The Tomlinson family refounded the Shrovetide Football Match back in the
early 1800s the match using the whole of Ashbbourne which is still palyed
to this day Phillip Tomlinson of Mayfield a Dairy Farmer is a member of
the Shrovetide Football Committee today His Fore bare was Rev Tomlinson
who lived at Sturston Hall
2.John Webster in adulthood living at Wyaston Farmer
3.Sarah married William Nuttall of Hognaston April 16th 1809 son of John
and mary Nuttallof Wirksworth wittnesses being John Webster and Benjamin
Pearson
Benjamin Pearson was of my wifes kin
Footnote William Killer of Wirksworth married Elizabeth Brown dau of
William Brown wittnesses Thomas Webster and Benjamin Pearson
Children of Thomas and Mary Webster nee Howse
1.John Webster married Mary Hall dau of Caleb and Hannah Hall nee Flint
Hannah my 4XAunt sister to John Flint who married Elizabeth Colledge
their son Samuel Flint married Mary Killer dau of John and Mary Killer
nee Hawley ..Adam Killer deceased husband of Kathleen Killer nee Webster
being of the same Killer family
2.George Webster married Susannah Houghton of Cromford
3.Thomas Webster
4.Esther Webster
5.Eliza Webster married Thomas Hodgkinson Woolcomber 1838
Children of John and Mary Webster nee Hall
1.Hannah born 1826 married Charles Wall Grocer of Wirksworth
2.Mary born 1828 married William Tatlow Silk Manufacturer Gorsey Bank
son of Jeremiah Tatlow Tape Manufactuer Gorsey Bank
3.John Webster born 1830
4.Ellen Webster
5.Thomas Webster born 1835 married Annie Rose of Kegworth ..They emigrated
to New Zealand ..with children then born ..when William Tatlow husband
of Mary Webster Thomas's sister died..Thomas was left the Mill in Tatlows
will and Thomas returned leaving some of his family in New Zealand
My Family history contacts today are Elaine Dewhurst nee Webster of
Bleinheim New Zealand neice of Kathleen Killer nee Webster and Anne
Crane nee Webster also of New Zealand and Kathleens neice I have met
with Mrs Crane at the home of one of the family who lives near where
Websters Mill was situated when Mrs Crane visited England some years
ago I am in touch by e mail with Elaine Dewhurst
Children of Thomas and Annie Werbster nee Rose
1.Anne born born at Blenheim New Zealand
2.John Webster born at Blenhiem N.Z.
3.Joseph Roy Webster born 1877 came back to Wirksworth with Thomas.. John
R Webster was father of Mrs Kathleen Belfield Killer nee Webster who
married Adam Killer and Charles Edward Blackwall Webster Market Gardener
of Storer Farm Ashleyhay who married Edith Spencer she born in Canada but
of the Spencer family of Ashover allied kin to Smiths and Smedleys of Lea
Mills and Roy Webster who married V.Benyon of my allied kin Roy deceased
owned a Painting and Decorating Shop where today Spencers Bakery and Cafe
is on the corner of St Mary's Gate
4.Charles Webster born at Blenhiem N.Z.
5.Ada Born at Wirksworth
6.Ethel born at Wirksworth
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Doxey/Gregory family
4 Jan 2009 |
The following is the Doxey family re Rev John Smith Doxey
Sarah Doxey had a son Samuel Doxey out of wedlock Sarah married Thomas
Eley of Bolehill
Samuel Doxey married Anne Higton whose son Samuel married Anne Wragg
Samuel obt in Donnegal Ireland
Children of Samuel and Anne Doxey nee Higton
1.Samuel married Anne Wragg he obt in Ireland
2.Thomas Doxey married Millicent Gregory dau of David Gregory of Rise End
Middleton
3.Henry married Mary Wall of Hackney Lane Matlock ..This Wall family is of
my kin via Flints in more recent years Kathleen Flint born in Canada she
a retired Attorney in the Public Prosecution Department Ontario is
Grandaughter of Joshua J Flint who married a Wall of Smedley Street Matlock
Katheen is my fellow family history researcher Joshua J Flint was
seconded to The Canadian Forestry Battalion 1st W.W.and on being demobbed
was offered transit to Canada
Children of Thomas and Millicent Doxey nee Gregory
1.Samuel
2.Lydia married John Marsden of Milford
3.Thomas married Mary Byard of Alderwasley she of my Byard family..My
Grt Aunt Ada Cauldwell of Alderwasley married Albert Byard son of Francis
and Racheal Byard nee Maskrey of Breamfields whilst other members of the
Byard family of Broadgates Farm Ashleyhay and The Bent also married into
my kin
4.David Doxey marr Anne Ogden dau of William Ogden Butcher Market Place
Wirksworth more recently owned by my friend Ian Coates Butcher
5.Millicent married Joseph Sheldon of Cromford Cotton Spinner
6.Martha married Edward Wheatcroft he my kin see Wheatcoft / Cauldwell /
Hawley family history
7.Anne married John Allen alias Smith son of Anne Allen of my kin who had
two children by John Smith Gent of Bolehill when she was his Housekeeper
their Grandson was Rev John Smith Doxey of Rochdale
8.Hannah Doxey married John Randall of Stockport
Children of Thomas and Mary Doxey nee Byard
1.David Doxey married Anne Wragg of Bolehill
2.Millicent married Thomas Smith of Wirksworth 1834
3.Lydia
4.Mary married William Francis Smith of Wirksworth Butcher / Farmer
5.Henry
6.Harriett married Edward Bowman of Mansfield
7.Emma married Robert Abbott Butcher of Wirksworth
8.Joshua
The Gregory family
Benjamin Gregory Ore Buyer and Innkeeper under Middle Peak (possibly The
Lime Kiln Inn Middleton Road out of Wirksworth Stoneycroft Quarry one
time owned by my kinsman John Waterfield he Landlord at The Lime Kiln
where he burnt Lime in the Kilns then Stoneycroft became part of Middle
Peak Quarry owned by my Shaw family )
Children
1.David Gregory married Martha Clay of Wirksworth
2.Millicent married Job Burton
3.Lydia married Ebenezer Hall the senior partner at Goodluck Mine Via Gellia
where today my friend Peter Naylor is Chairman of Goodluck Show Mine he an
author of books a senior member of Peak Mining Museum and a Juryman on
Wirksworth Barmote Court...I haved carried out research for Peter and he
is assisting me with my own family history. Also a member of the trustees
at Goodluck Mine is Mr Doxey born at Stockport but now residing at Hackney
Lane Matlock ..I am helping to research his family who were involved at
Goodluck Mine in the time of Ebenezer Hall as were my own Doxey Flint
and Hall family My kinsmen of Doxey were still mining at Goodluck in the
late 1890s whilst my Jones Doxey and Kinder family were mining for
Barytes at Goodluck into the 1940s
The Doxeys of this family married into my Sheldon family who owned mines
at Middleton Hopton Wood Carsington Pastures and Griffe Grange
4.Mary married Samuel Ashover of Middleton Ashovers married into my
wifes family their kinsmen buried in Middleton Congregational Church Yard
5.Benjamin married Masry Gorshill
Children of David and Martha Gregory nee Clay
1.Joshua married Elizabeth Charlton of Brassington dau of Richard Charlton
2.David
3.Benjamin married Sarah Bateman (Batemans my wifes kin Ida Bateman
deceased of Middleton married William Evans of my wifes Evans family My
mother in laws 2nd cousin M.Evans dau of William and Ida married E.Kniveton
of my previously mentioned Kniveton family E Knivetons brother Reg
deceased was a friend and fellow chorister of mine in Cromford Male Voice
choir which was co founded by my Uncle Sydney Flint the Musical director
being Mr Routledge Headmaster at Cromford Junior School North Street
Uncle Syd Flint also founded and conducted Cromford Ladies Choir Uncle
Syd Flint also played solo cornet with Darley Dale Silver Prize Band in
the 1930s )
4.Anne Gregory married Gamaliel Hall brother of Caleb Hall who married
Hannah Flint..they my 4XUncle and Aunt Hannah sister of John Flint who
married Elizabeth Colledge Caleb was a partner with Ebenezer Hall at
Goodluck lead Mine Via Gellia Gamaliel and Calebs father Gamaliel Hall
who married Mary Goodall was killed at Goodluck Mine in 1786 when he fell
down the climbing shaft The Barmaster in charge of the Inquest at The Moot
Hall Wirksworth was Adam Simpson of my kin all the Jurymen members of my
wife and my family ie Samuel Wragg my wifes 6XGrandfather who married
Hannah Godbehere Thomas Godbehere brother to Hannah.. Samuel Mather of
my kin Job Hall Jacob Doxey of my family his heir marrying into my
Sheldon family his more recent heir of today a friend of my brothers her
husband having been a colleague of my brother when they were Senior
Managers with NatWest Bank in the Nottingham and South Yorkshire areas
both having started out in their careers with National Westminster Bank
at Matlock Bath in the 1950s..where I also for a time was a Bank Guard
in my late teens. My friends father was Councillor Leslie Arthur Doxey
who took over from my father as Chairman of Wirksworth Water Board he
also a Councillor on Wirksworth UDC His father John Frederick Doxey was
a member of the Grand Jury Wirksworth Barmote court along with Joseph Evans
my wifes Gr Grandfather..the Barmaster being Samuel J Sheldon my Gr Gr
Uncle
5.Lydia
6.James
7.Martha married Daniel Roper of Middleton
8.Millicent married Thomas Doxey they fore bares of Rev John Smith Doxey
9.Elizabeth married Daniel Walker Publican at The Rising Sun Inn Middleton
10.Mary married Thomas Hall 1789 His son Thomas married Mary Flint of my
kin they Bakers and Grocers at Bolehill Thomas Hall was a partner with
my Gr Gr Grandfather Samuel Flint and Marys brother Joseph Flint at Flints
Wharf Steeplegrange having a Coal business and Brick Works.. Halls also
Carriers.. Joseph Flint as with my Gr Gr Grandfather Samuel were
Wharfingers..Samuel at Middle Peak Wharf and Joseph at Steeplegrange
Wharf..Samuel Flint married Mary Killer he also Station Master at
Steeplegrange when a primitive passenger service was run on the Cromford
& High Peak Railway line to Whalley Bridge.. The Halls married back
into my mothers family of Brookes Land and Holmes of Bolehill in recent
years Thomas Halls Gr Gr Gr Grandaughter May Flint dau of Harry Flint
Coal Agent Flints Wharf was partner to my mother in law Dorothy Steube
nee Evans cousin Haydn Spencer Haydns sister Moira is my fellow family
history researcher living at Middleton in a bungalow on land once owned
by my Axe and my wifes Slack family. Moira married John Taylor nephew
of Edith Taylor nee Slack who lived on Main Street Middleton see Ediths
Family story on John Palmers web pages Moira also like my wife heir of
the Slack family
11.Hannah married Arthur Spencer of Middleton
Rgards Stuart G Flint
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Rev John Smith Doxey of Rochdale re Football match
4 Jan 2009 |
Having read that Rev John Smith Doxey of Rochdale wrote about the football
match twixt Roebucks and Ince, I at once recognised the reverend gent as
being a distant kin of my own Allen family of Bolehill
Rev J Smith Doxey was Grandson of Anne Allen dau of Thomas and Ellen Allen
nee Barker Ellen sister to my 4XUncle Edward Barker who married Mary Flint
dau of Matthew Flint who married Ellen Allen.. Matthew son of my
5XGrandfather Abraham Flint of Darley Hillside whilst Thomas Allen family
are also of my kin up to the present day as my friend Betty W. nee Allen
is a direct heir of Thomas and Ellen as is my friend John Doxey of Rise End
Middleton today he cousin to William Hubert Doxey also of my allied kin
and my friend see also my Wheatcroft and Wright family history as Ellen
Allen who married Matthew Flint was Grandaughter of my 7XGrandfather on
my mothers side William Wheatcroft..
Allen Family History
Thomas Allen born 1677 married Esther Storer 28th July 1701 she daughter
of Robert and Elizabeth Storer the Storers my family over many generations
(married into Holehouse Storers one of whom married the sister of Ebenezer
Hall of Sheffield Silversmith
Children of Thomas and Esther Allen
1.John Allen married 1st wife Anne Wright of my direct kin via Wheatcrofts
and Frost 2nd wife.. Annes sister Mary marr 10th September 1739..John
Allen was killed at Thisley Lead Mine Colehills aged 44 years when the
mine was under the Agency of my Flint family
2.Anthony Allen married Rebecca Fox 3rd May 1732 Their son Anthony
married Sarah Bamford whose son Anthony married Samuel Butler of my wifes
kin whilst others of the Bamfords married into the Molinus and Brownson
family of my kin
3.Elizabeth Allen married John Smedley of Steeplegrange 1726 John was
cousin to Isaac Smedley who married Ellen Bailey as his 1st wife their
son Thomas Smedley born 1736 married Mary Smith of Tansley their son
being John Smedley who married Mary Roebuck sister of Thomas Roebuck of
Wirksworth
4.Robert Allen married Dorothy Sheldon of Middleton
Children of John and Mary Allen nee Wright
1.Samuel died in infancy
2.Joseph born 8th November 1752 Killed in an accident at Wall Close Lead
Mine Bolehill part of The Bage system aged 11 years
3.James Allen born 11th May 1761 Killed aged 26 years at Thisley Lead Mine
4.William Allen married Mary Ferne of Bonsall dau of Edmund and Dorothy
Ferne nee Charlton (Edmunds family pedigree dates back to Henry Ferne of
Parwich and Robert Ferne of Snitterton and Bonsall who endowed Bonsall
Free Grammar School where in the 1860s my Gr Gr Uncle John Crofts was a
Schoolmaster and Agnes Ferne Agnes who gave land upon which in 1576
Anthony Gell built his Grammar School Agens Ferne us still remembered
at Gells today as one of the School Houses is named Ferne House both my
brother and sister when pupils at the Grammar School being members of
Ferne House
William and Mary Allen nee Ferne married on 10th September 1781 their
daughter's all married into my Flint and allied Sims family Elaine
Ferne Krumme of California today is an heir of this family who has
visited my home with her family history..Elaine was born at Bolehill
and attended Gells Grammar Scholl with my sister ..
5.Ellen Allen married Matthew Flint son of my 5XGrandfather Abraham Flint
who married Martha Wright of Darley Dale at St Helens Church in 1723
Ellens Grandfather was William Wheatcroft my 7XGrandfather he born 1645
who married Mary Wragg 1667
6.Hannah Allen born 14th August 1745 married Joseph Brownson of Wirksworth
he Gr Uncle of my 2XUncle John Brownson who married my Grt Grandfather
Joseph Walkers sister Elizabeth Walker The Brownsons direct heirs of
Johannes Conradt Molinus and the Bamfords of Parwich one of their heirs
being John Bronson of Glasgow who in the 1540s was a Steward to Mary
Queen of Scots when she was a prisoner at Wingfield Manor and Tutbury
Castle under the care of The Earl of Shrewsbury
7.Mary Allen born 28th October 1747 married William Hoades my 5XUncle of
Bolehill he a Baker at Wirksworth William Hoades brother was Isaac Hoades
my 4XGrandfather who married Anne Shaw dau of Jethro Shaw of Snitterton
(On the Oker side of Snitterton)
Anne Shaws brother James Shaw was father to John Shaw whose family began
the quarrying dynasty at Matlock Dale, Colehills, Middle Peak and Hoe
Grange Longcliffe
8.Anne Allen married Edward Butler son of John Butler my wifes Grand fore
bare he also of my Shaw family as his Grand fore bare was Jethro and
Silence Shaw of Beeley then Oker Silence married George Godbehere of
Cromford first her maiden name being Annable.
My wifes Grt Uncle was Frank Holmes Butler deceased who married my wifes
Grt Aunt Sarah Slack (by slacks) Frank was half brother to my wifes
Grandfather Herbert Evans Frank Holmes Butler also my kin via Shaws.
his daughter marrying into the Rowland family of Callow Hall Farm which
is next door ot Callow Carr Farm where in the late 1790s my wifes
6XGrandfather Zachariah Hall who married Hannah Ward of Kirk Ireton
farmed
Children of Anthony and Rebecca Allen
Thomas Allen married Anne Hallsworth 12th January 1764 Thomas was killed
in a mining accident at Ravenstor Mine when Samuel Flint my 4XUncle was
Mining Agent there
Thomas and Anne were Grand fore bares of my friends at Middleton today..
Betty W. nee Allen and J Doxey cousin of W.H Doxey all born at Middleton
Thomas and Anne Allens son Thomas born 1762 married Ellen Barker sister
of my 4XUncle Edward Barker of Bolehill who married Matthew and Ellen
Flint nee Allens daughter Mary Flint Thomas and Ellen's daughter Anne
Allen became Housekeeper to John Smith of Bolehill Gent she having
children illigit.by John Smith.. their Grandson being Rev John Smith
Doxey he son of Thomas and Elizabeth Doxey nee Smith Allen Thomas Doxey
son of Thomas and Millicent Doxey nee Gregory of Middleton then Bolehill
and then Wigwell..The Gregorys are of my kin via Brownson Hall and
others see Gregory Ped on Ince Thomas Doxey was born at Middleton then
moved to Bolehill and then to Wigwell
Thomas and Anne Allens other children were
1.Edward Allen married Lydia Wigley of Wirksworth
2.Samuel Allen married Mary Hamilton they Grand fore bares of my friend
John Doxey
3.Sarah Allen married Joseph Foster
4.Ellen Allen married Thomas Doxey of Middleton 1811
Children of William and Mary Allen nee Ferne
1.Dorothy allen married William sims 1802 of The Bent Ashlelyhay
This Sims family gave a barn which became Bent Methodist chapel where
my mothers family of Matkin and Byards attended ..My Grandfather Walker
often preaching there..In the 1970s when working for a short time for
Matlock Glass, on being made redundant at Bryan Donkin I fitted new
window frames at the old chapel when it was sold and became a private
house. the Sims married into my Flint and my Harrison / Houfton family.
William and Dorothy Sims son Samuel Sims married Elizabeth Slater
daughter of my 4XUncle and Aunt Joshua and Hannah Slater nee Flint
Joshua Slater was killed in 1823 at Masson Mill he an engineer there..
Joshua and Hannah were Gr Gr Grandparents to Councillor Joshua Frederick
Slater (The Father of Wirksworth Urban District Council). Fred Slater
my father Harry S Flint and Norman Harrison of my Slater kinship were
all fellow Councillors on Wirksworth UDC in the 1940s
Out of this Sims and Harrison family came Sir John Plowright Houfton who
was the first General Manager at Bolsover Colliery when Emmerson
Bainbridge had negotiated the land deal with The Duke of Portland and
The Earl Manvers for the sinking of the pit..Plowright Houfton then went
on to be a Director of Bolsover plus also of Clipstone Mansfield
Thoresby Cresswell and other Collieries in the Doncaster area he also
becoming M.P. for Nottingham East ..Sir John Plowright Houftons cousin
Percy Bond Houfton an Architect designed Model Villages for the coal
industry including Bolsover where my Uncle George Else and his wife my
fathers sister Millicent Else nee Flint lived along with for a time my
Uncle George Seeds and his wife Gertrude Dads other sister Also living
at the Pit Cottages were my cousins Glady Else who married George Reddish
and Grace Else who married George Bentley both miners at Bolsover..For a
time Uncle Sydney Flint worked at Bolsover Colliery whilst Uncle Arthur
Botham born in the 1880s who married Dads eldest sister Leah Amelia Flint
was a Pit Deputy at Clipstone Colliery living in another of Percy Bond
Houfton's Model Villages Sherwood Village ..Uncle Arthur Botham was
involved at Clipstone when it was first sunk. I am in touch with the
nephew of Plowright Houfton and with his Grandaughter
2.Sarah Allen born 1784 married Robert Flint brother of my 3XGrandfather
John Flint who married Elizabeth Colledge Robert on Sarah nee Allens
demise in 1829 became a Mormon his daughter having married Elijah West
of Ockbrook Derby who was a Priest in the Latter Day Saints Robert along
with his sons John Flint who married Mary Foster Spencer of Middleton dau
of Peter and Hannah Spencer nee Potter of Hallicar Lane Middleton (became
part of Duke Street) Peter Spencer was kin of my wifes family of Hall
of Middleton his family also marrying into my Hawley family.. whilst
Roberts other son William Allen Flint married Elizabeth Slack of Bolehill
dau of Samuel and Sarah Slack nee Land Samuel originally from Middleton
and of my wifes kin whilst Sarah was sister to my 2XGrandmother Hannah
Land who married James Smith of Carsington and possibly in the dim and
distant past related to Jonathan Smith of the Rev John Smith Doxey's family..
James and Hannah Smith nee Land's daughter Sarah married Thomas Cauldwell
whose daughter Annie married John Walker they my Grandparents On Thomas
Cauldwells early demise when a serving Police Officer at Sheffield Sarah
remarried Robert Flint my 3XUncle who was the son of cousins John and Mary
Flint nee Flint John son of my 3XGrandfather John Flint whilst Mary was
the daughter of Robert and Sarah Flint nee Allen Robert Flint lived with
my Grt Grandfather henry Flint and his brother Adam Flint at Wigwell Nook
Farm Sough Lane Wirksworth Moor Robert Smelting Mill Agent at Meerbrooke
Cupalow Longway Bank which was reached via Sough Lane The Meerbrook Sough
ran under their land where Jacob Frost of my kin was Bailiff to the Hurts..
3.Anne Allen born 1787 married Mark Flint son of my 4Xuncle Samuel Flint
who married Hannah Allen of Bolehill Samuel was Mining Agent at The
Dovegange Mines and at Ravenstor and Thisely Mines whilst his brother
Joseph Flint was Mining Agent at the Bage Mine and Wall Close Bolehill
and Ratchwood Founder Mine Rise End Middleton
Samuel and Hannahs direct heir today.T. Flint is my fellow family history
researcher living near Derby..
Footnote
In August of 2008 my wife daughter and I attended a Flint/Brough family
reunion at Meerebrook Village Hall near Leek Stafforshire when over 70
members of the Utah Brough and Flint family from Kaysville St George
Layton West Jodron Salt Lake City etc met with a further 70+ members
of the Brough family who originate from Upper Hulme near Leek and Longton
Staffs My wife dau and I the only Brirish Flints present to research
family history.. John Flint of Bolehill who married Mary Foster Spencer
was father of John Flint who married Martha Brough whose father was born
at Longton Staffs but who went out as a Mormon with Flints to Kaysville
Utah in the 1850s ..I am in regular touch with the Broughs and Flints in
the State of Utah and bordering States Paul and Deana Flint nee Barton
being my main contacts Paul being Gr Grandson of John and Martha Flint
nee Brough they living between Layton and St George Pauls son being
David Flint a Market Garden Owner at Layton
Children of William and Dorothy Sims nee Allen
1.John Sims born 1810 married Dorothy Stafford This same Stafford family
via James Stafford married my 4XAunt Margaret Colledge sister to Elizabeth
Flint nee Colledge my 3XGrandmother On James Staffords demise Margaret
married George Derbyshire of Toadholes (Two Dales) Darley Dale he a Roof
Slater whose family married into the Wildgoose family of Matlock Bank
Building contractors John Derbyshire of Darley Dale a Joiner of this
family also married into my fathers Walker family..
2.Dorothy born 1807 3.Hannah born 1805
4.Mary born 1803 obt unmarried aged 25 years
5.James Sims born 1813 married Anne Kniveton dau of Charles Kniveton
Weaver of Bolehill James and Anne Sims were parents to Anne Sims who
married into the Eaton family of my wifes family (Cromford) and of my
brothers wifes family of Farnsworth of Cromford see Sims and Eaton family
history (my wife and my brothers wife are of similar lineage)
6.William Sims born 1815 wife unknown
7.Joseph Sims born 1818 married wife unknown
8.Samuel Sims twin to Joseph married Elizabeth Slater dau of my 4XUncle
and Aunt Joshua and Hannah Slater nee Flint
9.Elizabeth Sims born 1821 married Thomas Land of Bolehill son of my
3XGrandparents George and Betty Land nee Hoades George and Betty's daughter
Hannah Land married James Smith of Carsington he Mining Agent to his
relation Matthew Bacon at Town Head Lead Mine Carsington Pastures
(Thomas Cauldwell my Grt Grandfather who married Sarah Smith dau of James
and Hannah Smith nee Land was brother of John Cauldwell who married Anne
Flint dau of William and Martha Flint nee Bacon Martha dau of Matthew
Bacon who owned Town Head Mine Carsington Pastures..John Cauldwell was a
Gamekeeper at Hopton Hall Estate when for a time the Hurt family lived
there )
Regards Stuart G Flint..
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Having double checked my records and re researched parts of it for the
third time today I give the following information regarding the Roebucks
who played the game of football against Ince
I do not at present have enough information to say who the Little - David
was..It may have been that Little was his surname or as Doxey makes the
claim that Twigge may not have written the account himself but that a
third party may have written it..the name may be misleading..I believe it
must have been Thomas Norris Ince though as I have other info about Ince
and his forebare Samuel Norris of Sheffield as the Dales who married into
Ince were of my distant kin via Walkers Ludlams and Dales of Nottingham
Lea Hall ( Bradbourne ) and Parwich .
To explain my ideas on the subject I will give you a run down of the
Roebuck Fowler Bush Mason Spencer (Tansley) Smedley and Smith family
history which connects with my kinship .
Ince Peds gives some detail about Roebucks Fowlers etc but I have made
connections between the families to explain how they were all inter related
Starting with Smiths / Spencer family of Tansley whose heirs still live
in the Wirksworth area and married into my Belfield and Killer family of
recent years via Websters..(ie Edith Webster nee Spencer deceased last year
in her 90s my family fellow history Researcher born Canada but of Tansley
and Wirksworth famlies..Edith Spencer married Edward Blackwall Webster of
Storer Farm Ashleyhay Edward sister to Kathleen Webster who married Adam
Killer Baker deceaced of Killers bakery St Mary's Gate Wirksworth..Edward
and Kathleens Gr Grandmother was Mary Hall daughter of Caleb and Hannah
Hall nee Flint Hannah sister of John Flint my 3XGrandfather Adam Killer
and I sharing as Grand fore bare William Killer of Middleton
John Smith of Tansley
Sons
John Smith married Mary Spencer dau of Timothy and Anne Spencer nee Bown
Baker's of Matlock Direct heirs of Edith Webster nee Spencer
Samuel Smith of Tansley his son George owned a Dyers and Bleaching Mill
at Tansley Wood Mills..whilst George's brother John married Anne Flint of
Lea
Children of John and Mary Smith nee Spencer
John Smith married Alice Killer of Derby (so Ince says but I believe she
was born at Matlock ..I have found a lady of that name who is of my distant
kin her brother George Kilhare having owned land which he exchanged for
land owned by Thomas Hallett Hodge who sold Kilhares land on to Sir Richard
Arkwright ..I have this on record in Arkwright family papers recently
catalogued by friends of mine who are senior Officers of Wirksworth Barmote
Court ..I introduced them to the papers which are kept locally and which I
have often viewed and have a copy of the catalogued listings where
members of my family and my wifes family of Hoades Spateman Hall Fox
Kilhare Knowles etc are all mentioned
2.Richard Smith married Ellen Fowler daughter of Richard and Elizabeth
Fowler nee Pearson Ellens sister Martha married Willaim Bush whose
daughter Ellen married my 3XUncle Michael Hall-Wigley he born at
Castleton but on marriage Land Agent to Green Goodwins at Wigwell Grange ..
Anne Pearson sister of Ellen and Elizabeth married Henry Mason of Bolehill
he a Mining Agent..
3.Mary Smith married Thomas Smedley Hosier of Wirksworth they parents of
John Smedley 1st of Lea Mills who married Mary Roebuck dau of Thomas and
Ellen Reobuck nee Bright of Mansfield Mary Roebuck was sister to Thomas
Roebuck of Wirksworth Chandler and Grocer who married Elizabeth Smith
1802 he the elder Gent who played in the Football Match his son being
Richard Henry Mason Roebuck who married a Pilkington in 1830 he a School
Master at Kirk Ireton ....I agree with your belief that Richard and father
Thomas were the footballers
Children of Richard and Ellen Smith nee Fowler
1.John Smith Hosier of Wirksworth
2.Richard Smith married Elizabeth Charlton of Brassington (Hall) My
5XUncle Stephen Halls Grandson John Stephen Hall married into this
Charlton family of Brassington Hall (see Charlton Fox Hall case on your
web pages .. 5XUncle Stephen Halls first wife was Mary who lived with
her father at Lea Hall Bradbourne (where the Dales lived who married into
Ince) Lea Hall Farm today owned by one of My / My wifes allied family of
Naylor via Harrisons of Middleton ...Doris Harrison married John Naylor
of Lea Hall Doris's sister Betty still living at Doveholes Buxton worked
for my Dad in our shop on leaving school and often looked after me as a
babe in arms
Betty's sisterr Julia deceased also worked for my mother after my fathers
demsie up to us closing down the business in the 1970s whilst her sister
June married my wifes and my kinsman Lous Spencer of Middleton he and I
co founders of The Dalesmen Male Voice Choir in 1987 at Middleton we having
sung in choirs and Quartets for over 40 years together.. Louis's
Grandfather William Samuel Spencer founded Middleton Victoria Brass Band
in the 1890s which in the 1930s became Middleton Silver Prize Band when
all the players were blood kin ie Killer Statham Mather Slack Spencer
Flint Pearson Evans (my wifes family) Jones Doxey etc The conductor of
the Band when they won Silver Prize at Belle Vue National Championships was
Joseph Samuel Spencer W.S.Spencers son Joe Sam Spencers brother Walter
Spencer married Martha Millward Farnsworth who was sister to James
Farnsworth whose daughter Jennifer married my brother John Malcolm Flint ..
James Farnworth's wife was Evelyn Boden of Matlock Cliffe whose brother
Herbert Boden was Musical Director of Matlock Male Voice Choir he a
Manager a J W Wildgoose Buidling Contractors / Quarry Owners Matlock
Bank whose brother Lubin of my distant kin was the Founder of Matlock
Prize Choir Lubin co owner of Oldham House Hydro Wellington Street
Matlock with his mother Racheal Wildgoose nee Davies..Edward Alec Spencer
brother to Walter and Joe Sam Spencer was my singing / music teacher and
he also Sunday School Superintendent at Middleton Mount Zion Methodist
Church built in 1905 by my Grandfather John Walker and his brothers
(Joseph Walker & Sons) Edward Alec was father of Louis Spencer
3.Elizabeth Smith married Thomas Roebuck of Wirksworth He the senior
player in the football match
4.Nanny (Anne) Smith married Samuel Frost Grandson of my 6XGrandfather
Robert Frost
Samuel Frost was Manager at Wirksworth Savings Bank also a Malster /.
Grocer /Rope Manufacturer / Coal Vendor His son Robert continued with
the Coal business but in the 1850s my Gr Gr Grandfather Samuel Flint
took over the Coal Yard along with his partners Thomas Hall and his
cousin Joseph Flint (Thomas Hall married Josephs sister Mary Flint Joseph
Flint owned a Brick Works at Flints Wharf Steeplegrange (now a Residential
area known as Brickfields Close which Flints and Halls leased from Peter
Arkwright)
This Hall family married back into my mothers family of Brookes and Land
and still owned a Grocery and Bakery up to the 1950s Adam Killer of my
kin trained as a Baker with Luke Hall Grandson of Thomas and Mary Hall
nee Flint
Smedley's
John Smedley Miner of Steeplegrange married Elizabeth Allen of my allied
kin see Allen / Flint family history
Isaac Smedley Miner married 1st wife Ellen Bailey 2nd wife Anne Higton
dau of Job Higton ( one of my neighbours today is of this Higton family
who also married into my Peate and Flint family Way back in the early
1700s William Hall of my wifes kin and my own married Sarah Higton of
this family)
Son of Isaac and Ellen nee Bailey
Thomas Smedley married Mary Smith dau of John Smith of Tansley
Hannah Smedley married Warndall Alsop A Lady living near my home today
is heir of this Alsop family having married into my wifes family of
Rowland (also related to my Matkin and Kinder family of Callow and
Ashleyhay )
Dorothy Smedley married John Hoult of Mansfield
Isaac Smedley married Dorothy Greenhough
Children of Thomas and Mary Smedley nee Smith
1.John Smedley married Mary Roebuck dau of Thomas Roebuck of Mansfield Gent
John Smedley with Peter Nightingale founded Lea Mills Smedley's taking over
2,Hannah Smedley married John Alsop son of John and Anne Alsop nee Ogden
Anne of Tansley John Alsops brother Anthony Alsop married Hannah Wright
they Uncle and Aunt of Anne who married my Grt Grandfather Joseph Walker
as his 1st wife in 1836 The Wrights are of my direct kin as they hail
from my Wheatcroft and Frost family from the 1600s - Out of this same
Smedley and Roebuck family came John Marsden whose Grandson John Bertram
Marsden Smedley became Managing Director of John Smedley Lea Mills being
the longest serving Director of the firm ..In 1919 Mr Marsden Smedley paid
for my Aunt Doris Walker to attend Nottingham University to study Lace
Manufacturing and business management My mother was Mr Smedley's Secretary
up to marriage.. When Aunt Doris returned from University to Lea Mills
in the 1920s she became a Departmental Manager over the Womens Section
and also Managed the Wirksworth depot (the old Ebenezer Methodist Chapel
opposite the Moot Hall Chapel Lane and also Managing the Out Workers
having a depot at Tibshelf ..By the 1950s she was in charge of over
200 women at the mill see photograph on your web pages where she was
introduced to H.M The Queen Elizabeth )
In the 1940s 2nd W.W. Aunt Doris was sent by Smedleys as a Manager at
Bliss of Derby who manufactured Shell Casings and other Ordnance at their
Foundry on Mansfield Road Derby and then at Ranskill Ordnance Factory
near Retford Notts where she was a Departmental Manager in the Plastic
Explosives Rolling Mills and Cordite Manufacturing Section
Roebucks
Joseph Reobuck of Mansfield married Mary Goodall of Mansfield ......
Daughter name unknown married .... Hardwicke of Nottingham Malster
Elizabeth married John Web of Windsor Grocer
Mary married James Milnes of Ashover related to Nightingales of Lea
Bridge
Children of Joseph and Mary Roebuck
Thomas Roebuck of Mansfield Gent married 1st wife Ellen Bright dau of
Robert Bright Attorney at Wirksworth 2nd wife Mary Wood of Kirk
Ireton daughter of John Wood of that place
Hannah Roebuck married John Slingsby of Windsor
Mary married Mr Sherwood of Doncaster Jeweller
Children of Thomas and Ellen Roebuck nee Bright
Robert Bright Reobuck died in infancy
Thomas Roebuck Grocer and Chandler of Wirksworth baptised 1778 but appears
to have been born some 5 years earlier married Elizabeth Smith dau of
Richard Smith
They had a son Richard Henry Mason Reobuck who became a School Master at
Kirk Ireton
Thomas Norris Ince was the son of Richard (Rickard ) and Catherine Ince
nee Norris Richard Ince an Attorney at Wirksworth as was his son Catherine
dau of Samuel Norris of Sheffield whose allied kin were the Dales
My apologies if this has confused you all the more
Thomas Rroebuck who married Elizabeth Smith was the elder his son Richard
Henry Mason Roebuck the younger of the players Thomas Norris Ince the
senior whilst the David is a mystery but I will seek to find the answer
I have information about Jonathan Twigge if you are interested
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Kays of Hob Hall Farm
30 Dec 2008 |
William Kay who committed suicide at Hob Farm Gorsey Bank married Martha
Wetton of Holehouse which is off Pratt Hall Lane Ashleyhay twixt Ashleyhay
and Gorsey Bank I can see the farm from my front room window ..
The Wettons are of my allied kin as my Uncle Arthur Botham was son of Henry
and Mary Botham nee Wetton of Gorsey Bank Uncle Arthur married my father's
sister Leah Amelia Flint he a Pit Deputy at Clipstone Colliery retiring to
Whitley Bay Tyne and Wear living near my cousin Harry Sprake Botham he named
after my father and his brother John Botham who left Bolsover after the
2nd W.W. having served in the Army / Airforce during the war to open
Garages and Vehicle Dealerships at Newcastle Upm Tyne and Lisles Taxis /
Chauffer Driven Cars I was offered a job by Harry as a Driver in my
20s .. John emigrated to Australia in the 1960s his daughter is my fellow
family history researcher today she having married a retired Australian
Assistant Chief Constable he born at Mansfield where he was a Police
Officer
William Kays son George Kay had a daughter Anne Mary Kay who married James
Slack son of George and Sarah Slack nee Butler Sarah daughter of John
Butler of my wifes kin of Alderwasley George Slack was son of my 3XUncle
and Aunt Samuel and Sarah Slack nee Land Sarah sister of my 2XGrandmother
Hannah Land who married James Smith of Carsington ..Samuel Slack was kin of
my wifes family of Slack of Middleton ..Samuel and Sarah's daughter
Elizabeth married William Allen Flint son of my 4XUncle Robert Flint they
emigrating as Mormons to Kaysville Utah in 1850 Samuel and Sarah's son
Samuel married William Allen Flints sister Hannah Flint..
George and Sarah Slack nee Butlers children were
Emma married Charles Phillips Hairdresser of Wirksworth he born in
Warwickshire
Louisa married Jonathan Logan Schoolmaster
Alfred..
William George..
James born 1867 married Anne Mary Kay dau of George Kay Farmer of Hob Hall
Farm
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Standard Ore Dish re Wirksworth Barmote Court
29 Dec 2008 |
In a ledger owned by Samuel J Sheldon are remarks regarding the Dish used
to measure mineral of Lead ore at Wirksworth Barmote Court
In his own words
This Dish has been found by taking its measurements very accurately to
contain 472 cubit inches in a more than fourteen pints Winchester Measures ..
Its dimensions was known by W Sherwin in 1790
The Length of the Top was 21 inches.5 parts ?
The Length of Bottom 20 inches.7 "
The breadth at Top 5 inches.3 "
The Depth 4 inches.26 "
In S.J Sheldons report at the foot of this page are comments made by Mr
Rosewarne in 1836
The heaviest Ore I have ever seen was at Matthew Bacons Mine Town Head
Carsington in 1829 which weighed upwards of 75lbs per dish and when
by way of trial it was certified at Meerbrook Cupola produced 81 % lead
Matthew Bacon's daughter Martha married William Flint whose daughter
Anne married John Cauldwell my Gr Gr Uncle brother to Thomas Cauldwell
my Grt Grandfather who was born at Alderwasley to Nathaniel and Charlotte
Cauldwell Nathaniel Head Woodsman to Francis and Elizabeth Hurt nee
Arkwright Thomas Cauldwell was a Police Officer at St Michaels Lancaster
and then at Attercliffe Sheffield where he died in the pursuance of his
duties aged 29 years He married Sarah Smith they my Grt Grandparents..
When Thomas Died Sarah remarried Robert Flint my 3XUncle he born 1839
Smelting Mill Manager at Meerbrook Cupola Longway Bank and a Farmer living
at Wigwell Nook Farm Sough Lane Wirksworth Moor with my Gr Grandfather
Henry Flint he a widow and Henry's brother Adam Flint who married
Millicent Marples dau of Arthur and Millicent Marples nee Greenhough she
my kinswoman also via Simpson Colledge Flint Greenhough Killer Jones
Axe and Walker..
Thomas and Sarah had daughters Ada born at St Michaels Lancaster who
married Albert Byard of Breamfields Wirksworth and Annie born at
Sheffield who married John Walker they my Grandparents
Robert Flint was son of cousins John Flint brother of my Gr Gr Grandfather
Samuel Flint and Mary Flint daughter of Robert and Sarah Flint nee Allen
Robert and Sarah's sons became members of The Latter Day Saints and in
1850 emigrated on the Mormon chartered ship the Mary Ellen from Liverpool
Docks Captained by John Knowles of Liverpool ..In August 2008 for the
first time since 1850 I was the first Flint of Wirksworth area to meet
with my Flint / Brough family at Meerbreook nr Leek Staffordshire when
the Brough Family Organisation based in Salt Lake City all members of The
L.D.S. some senior members of the Church sent a delegation of over 70
members of the Brough family to meet with their family in England which
included allied kin of Flints. We met at Meerbrook Village Hall where High
Tea was served. My wife and daughter were also guests as my wifes family
of Slack and Spencer were members of the Flint /Brough family also..
Robert Flint who married Sarah Allen's son John Flint married Mary Foster
Spencer dau of Peter and Hannah Spencer nee Potter Peter my wife's
5XUncle whilst William Allen Flint Johns brother married Elizabeth Slack
dau of Samuel and Sarah Slack nee Land my 3XUncle and Aunt Sarah sister
to my Gr Gr Grandmother Hannah Land who married James Smith Mining Agent
to Matthew Bacon of Town Head Carsington.. Samuel Slack of Middleton was
of my wifes Slack family
Loujean Flint is Gr Grandaughter of John and Martha Flint nee Brough John
son of John and Mary Flint nee Spencer of Middleton Loujean is a colleague
of Cynthia Doxey Lecturers at Brigham Young University Cynthia Doxey is
kin to John Palmer of Dorset and of my friend William H Doxey of Wirksworth
I have contact with Loujean she a Representative of the Utah Flint family on
the Brough Family Organisation I have also contacted Cyntha Doxey and many
members of my Flint family of Utah and adjoining States
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Middleton Old Friendly Society
29 Dec 2008 |
The following are entries in the account re Middleton Old Friendly Society
of which Samuel J Sheldon was Treasurer / Secretary of
Income
January 1908 Received Interest from Savings Bank 15 - 14 - 4
Feb Interest from Savings Bank 20 - 00 - 0
March " " " " 15 - 00 - 0
March 25th Half Years Rent of Land from John W Sheldon 1 - 15 - 0
April ?Liverage Disposal 2 - 00 - 0
May Edward Mather Balance 5 - 8 -10
May 25th Ebenezer Hall Sheffield Honourary Sub 1 - 4 - 0
June Half Years Rent Land James Steeples 8 - 00 - 0
July Savings Bank 346 - 00 - 0
Ebenezer Hall Cheque cashed at William Deacon Bank 554 - 00 - 0
Sept. John W Sheldon Rent Half Year 1 - 15 - 0
Ebenezer Hall Managing Director of Martin Hall & Co Silversmiths he born
to Gilbert and Elizabeth Hall nee Slack of The Alley and then Town Street
Middleton.. Ebenezer Hall went on to own Fountain House where one of my
Sheldon family lived up to recent years although Ebenezer never lived
there as he lived at Abbeydale Hall Dore near Sheffield..Slacks both my
wife and my kin) was brother in law to Samuel J Sheldon via Ebenezers
brother Joseph Hall a Manager at Martin Hall & Co Silversmiths Shrewsbury
Works Sheffield.. Joseph Hall married Mary Longden daughter of Job and
Elizabeth Longden of Ible Farmers Mary's sister Jane Longden married
Samuel J Sheldon Mary and Janes sister Elizabeth married George Frost
of Middleton Hillside he a Master Stonemason kin of Joseph Gould who was
a Spar Turner at Scarthin Nick whose heir today is a retired Deputy
Headmaster at Anthony Gell Comp School Ebenezer Hall gave the funds to
build the Vicars Vestry and Porch at Holy Trinity Church Middleton His
Hall Forebares of the 1760s married into my direct Flint family via Caleb
Hall who married Hannah Flint sister of my 3XGrandfather John Flint who
married Elizabeth Colledge.. Calebs father Gamaliel Hall was killed when
he fell down Goodluck Mine Via Gellia the Barmaster in charge of the
Inquest being Adam Simpson of The Study Manor House Bonsall whose daughter
Mary married Richard Arkwright son of Sir Richard Arkwright ..All the
jurymen who served on the Inquest were of my wifes and my family re
Samuel Wragg my wifes 6XGrandfather Thomas Godbehere her 7XUncle
(Samuel Wraggs wife being Hannah Godbehere sister to Thomas Godbehere)
Matthew Ashover (Ashovers buried in Middleton Congregational Church Yard)
Job Hall Jacob Doxey (my kin via Sheldons one of his heirs my contact
today who has furnished me with the Sheldon documents) etc..etc..
see Chris Newhalls Hall page on John Palmers Web Site
Adam Simpson's sister Dorothy Simpson married Henry Flint of Holloway
Their daughters Sarah and Dorothy Flint both married Samuel Prince who
owned The Study Manor House after Adam Simpson Samuels 1st wife was
Sarah Flint and then on her demise Samuel married Dorothy.
Samuel Prince was nephew of my 6XUncle and Aunt Edith and Paul Prince nee
Henstock of Slaley Edith sister to my 5XGrandfather Edward Henstock of
Slaley Hall he a Mining Agent at Hentock Mines Slaley Moor and Farmer
Edward married Mary Frost of Bonsall Their daughter Mary married William
Hawley of Mettesforde Bridge and then Rise End Middleton he co partnering
at mines with my Wheatcroft family at Middle Peak Mines also a Blacksmith
and Engineer ..William and Marys daughter Mary married John Killer of
Middleton they my 3XGrandparents John and Mary daughter Mary married
Samuel Flint they my Gr Gr Grandparents ..Mary's brother William founded
Killers Quarry Middleton his 2nd wife being Anna Brownson daughter of my
Gr Gr Uncle and Aunt John and Elizabeth Brownson nee Walker Elizabeth
sister of my Gr Grandfather Joseph Walker
John Brownsons fore bare family were Bamfords and Molinus ..his Grand fore
bare being Major Johaness Conradt Molinus who was colleage of Sir
Cornelius Vermuyden when they surveyed and oversaw the digging of The
Dovegange Sough in the 1630s..Catherine Molinus Grandaughter of Johaness
Conradt Molinus married Samuel Wheatcroft (also known as Samuel Collinson)
illligit. son of Jane Wheatcroft daughter of my 7XGrandfather William
Wheatcroft who married Mary Wragg see Hall Potter Wheatcroft Molinus
Collinson family pedigree
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Wirksworth Moot Hall built 1773 and Mill Close Warren Car engine
29 Dec 2008 |
Re Information In further books which have come into my possession owned
originally by my Gr Gr Uncle Samuel Joseph Sheldon (born 1848 at Hallicar
Lane Middleton By Wirksworth to Joseph and Elizabeth Sheldon nee Sheldon of
Middleton and Bonsall respectively died 1933 at Sheldons Yard Duke Street
Middleton living next door to my wifes Grandfather Herbert Evans who reared
Eric Sheldon along with my Mother In law.. Eric brother of Albert and
Clifford Sheldon Albert owning Shellard Quarry Griffe Grange now owned by
Stancliffe Stone of Darley Dale..Eric was Transport Manager at the quarry
he on leaving school working for my father Harry Sprake Flint as a Grocers
Assistant )
In a Ledger is the following information which may be of interest
Wirksworth Barmote Court (Moot Hall) before being replaced by a more
modern structure on Chapel Lane Wirksworth in 1814 was built in 1773 in
Wirksworth Market Place believed to be where the present Town Hall stands
It was built by Thomas Villiers also known as Lord Hyde of Hindon also
known as 1st Earl Clarendon..Chancellor to The Duchy of Lancaster
On the same page it states that a new Steam Pumping Engine began to pump
flood water from Mill Close Lead Mine Warren Carr in 1876 the owner being
Edward Miller Wass who was a friend of Samuel J Sheldon, S.J Sheldon
Deputy Barmaster and Shareholder at Mill Close Mine also Barmaster to
Crich Liberty where Wass and Alsops owned partnerships the Alsops being
kin of my Grt Grandfather Joseph Walker who married S.J.Sheldons sister
Martha as his 3rd wife.. Joseph Walkers 1st wife Anne Wright was neice
of Anthony Alsop of Wensley Chief Barmaster Soke & Wapentake of Wirksworth
he and his brother John Alsop being Lead Smelters and Merchants at Wensley
and Lea Bridge. Their family marrying into the Miller and Wass family
Lydia Aslop daughter of John Alsop married John Allen of Holloway who was
Head Master at The Study School Bonsall when Jasper Wager Edward Miller
Wass William Bemrose and Joseph Alsop among others were Scholars at the
school..Luke Alsop son of John and Anne Alsop nee Ogden married his
cousin Lydia daughter of Anthony and Hannah Alsop nee Wright of my family
I have donated the Luke Alsop Diary which came into my possession to
Derbyshire County Council Archives Library .. John Alsops son married
Hannah Smedley sister of John Smedley 1st of Lea Mills
Edward Miller Wass sold Upper and Nether Golconda Lead Mines Griffe Grange
along with the Freehold of the surrounding land to Samuel J Sheldon in
1873 ..Chandos Pole Gell having a minority share in the mine.. In 1915
Samuel J Sheldon sold Upper and Nether Golconda Mines Griffe Grange
along with Chance, Tenement and Chariot Mines Carsington Pastures to George
Henry Key Colour Merchant of Matlock Bath, whose family today trading as
Viaton Industries still own the site..
My father Harry S Flint as Chairman of Wirksworth Water Board negotiated
leasing the land and water rights on the land on Slaley Moor owned by
George Henry Key and oversaw the building of the pipe work and Pumping
Station at the foot of Via Gellia Wood opposite Tufa Cottage (the
skeletal remains of the Pumping Station still visible among the
undergrowth and trees) plus the piping of the water on to Middleton Moor
re the first treated water supply to the village of Middleton 1937/8.
At the foot of the page re Barmote Court details is the following
information
Lead ore in the year 1808 Price of Lead £34.00 - £40.00 per ton
Lead Ore sold in 1874 at Warren Carr 60 lbs to the dish
January 1st 57/6 per load
January 3rd 58/- per load
Feb 20th 56/3 per load
March 7th 52/6 per load
April 11th 51/3 per load
May 5th 48/9 per load
June 18th 50/- per load
June 25th 50/6 per load
Sept 14th 51/- per load
Sept.23rd 52/6 per load
The same up to end of year
In the early 1900s The Lords of the Manors of Crich were
Lord Hotfield paid Roylaties
F.W.Fairbrother " "
F.C.A. Hurt " "
and then grouped together
John Alfred Wilmot Bessy Towndrow Mary E Wolstonholme John H Topham
William Cross Margaret H Cross
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Bilbie/Locketts
15 Dec 2008 |
The following is the direct link re Bilbie family with Locketts
Alderman William Bilbie Master Grocer Lord Mayor of Nottingham 1732
marr Elizabeth Walters of Ripley Derbyshire
Son
Joseph Bilbie Grocer of Nottingham married Anne Holland of
North Wingfield dau of John Holland Gent
Son
William Bilbie of Berry Hill Mansfield Gent Justice of The Peace
married Anne Barber of Greasley Notts
Children
Joseph Bilbie
William Bilbie
Major Robert Bilbie Gent... Commander of the Derby Militia
Mary Bilbie who recieved a legacy of £10,000
Anne Bilbie married William Jeffrey Lockett Gent of Derby
Attorney and Counsel for the Prosecution to the Crown ..
Land Agent to His Grace The Duke of Devonshire
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William Lockett was a Derby Solicitor who became Prosecution Counsel to
the Crown when the Pentrich Riotous were on trial around 1817..I have
studied the history surrounding the Pentrich Riots for some many years,,
The :Lockett family appear to have been Solicitors in Derby for some 100
years In time William J Lockett became a wealthy man having interests in
Lace Making factories at Loughborough and a confidant of His Grace The Duke
of Devonshire and as His Grace owned most of Shottle as the family I
believe still do today it is possible that Lockett was arranging a land
deal with Nuttal as John Nuttal was a Commissioner and Land Surveyor and
it may just be possible that the land Nuttal was inerested in re driving a
road twixt the Ecclesboune and Shottle Hall was Jebbs Lane as the Jebbs
family were by no means poor one of their ilk associated as a Juryman
in the case against The Pentrich Riotors as I show below .. The
Wirksworth - Duffield Railway line passes under a bridge on Jebbs Lane..
and in fact allied members of the Jebbs family still live in the Wirksworth
area today some being being friends of mine
When Lockett tried the rioters which included Ludlam Brandreth the Bacon
brothers and Weightman the Jury was headed by all the local Gents and Lords
of the Manors including the Foreman Lord George Cavendish Phillip Gell
Hon George Vernon John Radford Hon Henry Cavendish Francis Mundy
Sir Robert Wilmot Bart ...+++John Jebb..+++.. Charles Hurt
Richard Arkwright etc..so it is little wonder that the rioters were dealt
with severely
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Photo 405 Main Street Middleton
23 Nov 2008 |
Top Photograph
Shows Main Street just below The Green
The old gate shown in photograph top right led into a field which
Mr Walter Hadfield owned his farm on Vicarage Lane just below The Fields
going out of the village towards Middleton Recreation Ground over Greener
Fields towards Steeplegrange (The Arkwright family endowed the land to
the Trustees of Middleton Recreation Ground my father one of the original
Trustees) I often helped to take cattle from Vicarage Lane Fields via
Chapel Lane and then on to Main Street up to the fields shown also helping
with Hay Making as I did with my brother and our mates at other farms in
the village ie Willowdene Farm owned by Mr Webster (his wife sister to
Mr Howard the Baker of Middleton his sons having a Bakery at Cromford up
to recent years which Wrights took over Mr Wright retired related to my
Uncle Charles Lesley Wright deceased Gents Outfitter Cromford Howards
baked the best bread and today I still buy bread from a local baker at
Middleton who worked for Howards, baked to Howards recipe..
Just across the road from Hadfields fields just a wall showing was where
Mr Benny Gretton lived his wife a Slack of my wife's family..Mr Gretton
was a Beekeeper and I was often asked to help transport his hives He made
some of the best honey only surpassed today by honey made by Mr Headon of
Tufa Cottage Via Gellia today
Just below Grettons was Middleton Post office still such today then in
my youth owned by Mr Brian Coles who came to Middleton as an Electrical
Engineer in the 1930s to connect Middleton to the Mains His colleague was
my Uncle Geoffrey Grace (married Anne Walker my mother's sister ) Just
below The Post Office old Photo was Howards Bakery taken over by Mr
Thomas Wigley and below Wigley's Bakery was Jones The Butcher they of my
kin via Flint Killer Spencer Greenhough Axe Slack and Doxey.
Bottom photograph
The houses and shop shown running up Main Street Middleton from bottom of
photograph were known as Alexandria Buildings..My father Harry Sprake Flint
had the shop as a Fancy Goods and Newsagency which afterwards came into
the ownership of Mrs Goodwin who lived in the house below the shop on Main
Street ..Her heirs still live in the village ..My father and his mother
Gwenillian Flint nee Sprake lived above the shop ... Alexandria Building
was split level twixt Main Street and The Alley My Grandmother's house
entrance was from The Alley Dad married Kathleen Walker dau of John and
Annie Walker nee Cauldwell of Manor Fields The Fields from this house
in 1937 he born in 1894
Just above Alexandria Buildings not shown too clearly was Central Stores
just visible which my father leased from the Gregson Family who were the
former Grocers at the shop
Dad sold near enough everything barring the kitchen sink the shop three
storey's high Dad was a Master Grocer but also had a Drapery Shop at
Wirksworth and eventually he converted a house next to Central Stores as
a Drapery outlet.. We also sold Provisions which came loose this meaning
that my brother sister and I on Saturday mornings spent the time skinning
cheeses or unpacking new barrels of Butter and packs of Lard or boning
Bacons In the Sugar Room we would weight out 2 lb bags of suger into the
blue sugar bags a tedious job or weighing loose flour into 3lb, bags in
the Flour room Once a week the flour was transported from a Mill at
Darley Dale in 56 lb sacks which has to be winched through the floor via
a hand cranked crane..We also sold Boots and shoes Patent Medicines
Pots and pans crockery china and at Christmas Toys and Gifts
Dad employed local village people in the shops ie Mr Eric Sheldon of my
kin he reared from youth with my mother in law by my wife's Grandfather
Herbert Evans of Sheldons Yard Duke Street Middleton Eric went on after
war service to be Transport Manager at Shellards Quarry Griffe Grange
owned by his brother Albert Sheldon..Dad also employed as an Apprentice
Mr Edgar Doxey deceased who was brother of Councillor William Hubert
Doxey J.P. M.B.E. they kin of Mr John Palmer.. Edgar who in his last
years lived next door to my mother at Duke Fields Senior Citizens
bungalows retired as a Foreman at Masson Mill When he became ill Mother
who on selling the business became an auxilliary nurse at Wirksworth
Maternity Hospital in her 80s looked after him along with the other
residents of the bungalows.. Others who worked for Dad were Margaret Slack
Betty Harrison Herbert Doxey and Daphne Bunting whose mother was sister
to George Else who married my father's sister Millicent Flint..Daphne
worked for Dad from leaving school and when Dad was nearing his end she
came back in the 1960s and stayed until mother sold the buisness in the
1970s Her sister Jean drove the shop van and taught me to drive Jean
and her husband in the 1980s ran The Whitworth Hotal Darley Dale serving
the best meals in the county When my daughter celebrated her 21st
birthday we held it at The Whitworth Hotel when Jean was Landlady
Many of her / my cousins were present who lived at Bolsover ..
Abover Central Stores a house jutted out into Main Street This was owned
by Mr Bertram Petts who with his brother John James Petts founded a
Monumental Masonry Works at a workshop just across the road on Chapel Lane
from Highfields The Fields my family home
John J Petts was father of my Aunt Ada Flint nee Petts who married Dads
brother John Samuel Flint a Steam Engine Driver who lived near Crewe..
Aunt Ada's sister Lillian married Councillor Norman Harrison who was of
my mother's Land and Brookes family of Steeplegrange and Bolehill
Bertram Petts's Grt Grandson is now owner of the Monumental business still
in the same yard. Across the road from Central Stores just visible above
the Telegraph Posts were The Barns one time owned by Gregsons where they
kept Horses and a Carriage In the 2nd W.W. under emergency orders all
biscuit tins and the like had to be saved and so Dad stores all manner
of tins etc in the barns The upstairs Lofts had been sealed before Dad
ever took over the barns and in the 1960s Mr Arthur Wilson who lived just
above Central Stores on The Pitchings (now for some reason known as
Stoney Hill) and myself broke into the loft and found old saddles and
harness and riding gear ..Mr Wilson had one of the Barns and kept Ferrets
in them
Just below the Barns on the bottom side of the Telegraph Posts was Belmont
Cottage owned by Mr Tom Walker who had an Engineering Works at Sheffield
I believe..His more recent kin was a lady who married into the Olivers
whose daughter married into the Bennett family of Hosiery Manufacturers of
Wirksworth.. Mr Tom Walker along with my father and another kinsman William
Brace they great friends often attended Queen Park Chesterfield to watch
Derbyshire Cricket Club play ..I have recently found out that before Belmont
Cottage was built a row of Thatched roofed cottages stood on the same site
and that one day a tenant at one of them on arriving home from work down
one of the lead mines at Middleton looking forwards to a meal of Oatcakes
found his wife had run out of fat..In anger he grabbed hold of a hand full
of Tallow used for making candles and threw this fat into a pan which was
already to hot..The pan caught light and the thatch caught fire burning
all the cottages down to the ground... Between the Barns and Belmont
Cottage was Main Street Weslyan Methodist Church which Mrs Edith Taylor
attended she of my wifes Slack family.. Her cousin lives today below my
home at Wirksworth..
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Simpson/Wigley family
21 Nov 2008 |
The following is the family history of the Simpson family of Bonsall and
Wirksworth
James Simpson of Wirksworth wife unknown May have been born out of
Derbyshire. No record of his birth on L.D.S site or Wirksworth Parish
Registers
Son
James Simpson born 1666 married Grace Wigley 1692 daughter of Ralph
Wigley believed to have lived at Wigwell Grange which Wigley's came into
possession of when Anthony Babbington was tried and hung for Treason
against Elizabeth 1st he son of Ralph Wigley who married Anne Healey
in 1632 he Grandson of Henry Wigley who married Elizabeth Gell living
at The Hall Middleton. Ralph who married Anne Healey was brother to
Henry Wigley who married May Spateman they living at Seniorsfield nr
Cromford ( Seniorsfield was a group of houses owned by Wigley's and where
the original Bridge House was built nr the foot of Willersley Lane...
Henry Wigley was Executor to my 8XGrandfather Henry Coates will...
Children of James and Grace Simpson nee Wigley
1.William Simpson born 1694 married Mary Statham of Alderwasley
2.Peter Simpson born 1695 Woolcomber and Fulling Miller Milnehouse
Green Wirksworth (Millers Green) married Elizabeth Curzon of Crich at
St Mary's Church Crich 1719..she daughter of William and Mary Curzon nee
Piggin Mary daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Piggin Elizabeth nee
Fritchley of Fritchley...A direct heir of Thomas and Elizabeth Piggin was
Miss Elizabeth Piggin of Crich who I knew as Aunt Lizzie she secretary
to my Aunt Doris Walker Departmental General Manager at John Smedley
Lea Mills 1930 - 1960s who lived with my Walker family at Middleton
When Elizabeth, Peter's 1st wife died in 1729 he remarried Sarah Wigley
of Wirksworth in 1732
3.Ralph Simpson born August 18th 1705 married Marie Johnson of Wirksworth
17th September 1731
4.James Simpson born 1702 married Hannah Blythe daughter of Rev John
Blythe of Dronfield
5.John Simpson born 1704 married Elizabeth Ginny of Weston Upon Trent
nr Derby
6.Elizabeth Simpson born 1699 obt 1700
7.Robert Simpson born 1697
Known child of William and Mary Simpson nee Statham
Sampson Simpson married Mary Potter
Children of Peter and Elizabeth Simpson nee Curzon
1.Mary Simpson born 1720
2.Millicent Simpson born 1723 married Samuel Colledge 1743 he a
Farmer / Landlord The Chequers Inn Milnehouse Green also a Mining Agent ..
they my 4XGrandparents Samuel was son of William and Margaret Colledge nee
Holmes (Williams 1st wife was Anne Cadman daughter of Timothy and Mary
Cadman nee Wheatcroft Mary sister to my 7XGrandfather William Wheatcroft
on my mothers side of the family)
3.William Simpson
4.Elizabeth Simpson born 1729 she surviving Her mother died soon after
childbirth
Children of Peter and 2nd wife Sarah nee Wigley
1.Anne Simpson born 1734
2.Sarah Simpson born 1736 married John Wigley of Wirksworth 1760
3.Daniel Simpson born 1738
Sarah Peter's 2nd wife died in 1748
Children of John and Elizabeth Simpson nee Ginny
Lived at The Study Manor House Bonsall
1.Adam Simpson born 1725 married 1st wife Elizabeth Robinson of Cromford
They had one son Adam Simpson who died in his 20s
2nd wife Elizabeth Oldham of Shirland
Adam owned Lead Mines and land at Middleton and Bonsall He was Deputy
Barmaster and oversaw the inquest of Gamaliiel Hall whose family owned
Goodluck Lead Mine Via Gellia in the mid 1700s Gamalieil fell down the
mine shaft and was killed on March 18th 1783 .. All the Jurymen at the
hearing held at The Barmote Court were of my wife and my family
ie Samuel Wragg who was my wifes 7XGrandfather he married Hannah Godbehere
Thomas Godbehere who was brother in law to Samuel Wragg Matthew Ashover
allied kin to Wraggs Samuel Mather both my wifes and my kinsman Daniel
Slack my wifes / my kinsman Ebenezer Hall he the senior partner at the
mine Jacob Doxey he of my Sheldon kinship ..Robert Spencer, George Holmes
my wifes 6XGrandfather married Hannah Greatorex in 1781 witnesses Gamalieil
Halll and William Flint John Lee he of the Clayton family of my kin.
Gamaliel Hall was father to my 4XUncle Caleb Hall who married Hannah
Flint sister of my 3XGrandfather John Flint who married Elizabeth Colledge.
2.Dorothy Simpson born 1728 married Henry Flint Blacksmith of Holloway
son of Anthony Flint Grocer Their daughters Sarah and Dorothy both
married Samuel Prince Sarah his first wife and on her demise Dorothy
Samuel Prince's Uncle and Aunt were my 6XUncle and Aunt Paul and Edith
Prince nee Henstock Edith sister of my 5XGrandfather Edward Henstock of
Slaley Hall
3.John Simpson married Mary Cooke 1746
Children of Adam and 2nd wife Elizabeth nee Oldahm
1.John Simpson born 1761 married Elizabeth Hawksely the daughter of a
Factory owning family near Arnold Nottingham, she Aunt to Thomas Hawksley
born 1807 who is a man of some fame as he was the founder of water
purification engineering ie who built Trent Bridge Water Works and others
throughout the British Isles he a Fellow of The Royal Institute President
of The Institution of Water and Gas Engineers President of The Institution
of Civil Engineers Bestwood Pumping Station which he built is still in
use today...
2.Samuel Simpson born 1759 Samuel and John were partners for a time with
their brother in law Richard Arkwright of Cotton Mills and in time they
purchased the mills near Manchester
3.Mary Simpson born 1755 married Richard Arkwright of Willersley Castle
1780 at Bonsall Parish Church
Children of John and Mary Simpson nee Cooke
James Simpson born 1760 married Margaret Lloyd of Spondon daughter of
Rev John Lloyd
James and Margarets son Edward Lloyd Simpson married Maria Cade daughter
of Dr James and Anne Romana Cade nee Wright Anna Romana Wright daughter
of Joseph Wright of Derby Painter who painted the portrait of Sir Richard
Arkwright..Anne Romana Wright was born in Italy when Joseph Wright was on
the Grand Tour of the country.
Joseph Wright married Amme Swift of Ault Hucknall.
Dr James Cade F.R.C.S. was a well known surgeon who lived at The Homestead
Spondon reputedly where Josiah Wedgewood was married from ..
Dr James Cades Grandaughter was Rowena Cade who founded the Minack Theatre
Cornwall and is also remembered as a Patron of Derby Shakespeare Company
Edward Lloyd and Maria Simpson nee Cade's daughter Margaret Romana Lloyd
Simpson . married William Bemrose who with brother Sir Henry Howe Bemrose
founded the Bemrose Corporation Printers and Publishers at Derby and
Spondon William and Henry Bemrose were the sons of William and Elizabeth
Bemrose nee Ride of Derby..This William Bemrose attended The Study School
Bonsall and then set out as a Printer at Matlock Bath one of his associates
in the printing trade who he had dealings with was Jonathan Coates of
Alfreton who had a Printing Works at Market Place Wirksworth (at the rear
of where Ogdens had a Butchery business, more recently Coates's Butchers
Shop Mr Ian Coates of today nil relation to Jonathan Coates) Jonathan
Coates's daughter Mary Coates married my 4XUncle William Hawley he brother
to Mary Hawley who married John Killer they my 3XGrandparents ..Jonathan's
wife being Mary Wilson of Alfreton whose family of Solicitors were
executors along with Sir John Eardley Wilmot of Chaddesden Hall of
Lt Col Tristram Revell of Carnfield Hall will.. Wilsons took over the
Hall and married into the Radfords who then owned the Hall Today a
Mr Cartland owns Carnfield Hall
Jonathan Coates printed many of the notices regarding The Wooley Manusripts
as did my other kinsman Stephen Glover Printer and Publisher of Derby
Stephen married Anne Shaw neice of my 4XGrandparents Isaac and Anne Hoades
nee Shaw Stephen Glovers son Stephen Shaw Glover married Martha Slack
of Middleton see my / my wifes Slack family history..
Children of Samuel and Millicent Colledge nee Simpson
1.Elizabeth Simpson born 1763 married John Flint 1787 they my
3XGrandparents John's 1st wife was Anne Peate dau of Phineas Peate of
Alport Heights Ashleyhay whose sister Grace married James Potter they my
sister in law (my brother's wife) 4XGrandparents
2.Millicent Simpson born 1761 married Joseph Greenhough of Bolehill..
Greenhoughs of this family have married into my family over the years up
to recent times ie Joseph and Millicent Greenhough's son John Greenhough
married Millicent Flint his cousin daughter of my 3XGrandparents John and
Elizabeth Flint nee Colledge Their son Joseph Greenhough married Elizabeth
Wright of my kin who were brother / sister in law to my Grt Grandfather
Joseph Walker who married Anne Wright as his 1st wife in 1836 Anne an heir
of my Frost 6XGrandfather on my father side she also heir of William
Wheatcroft my 7XGrandfather on my mothers side of the family
Millicent Greenhough of this family married Arthur Marples of Bolehill
whose daughter Millicent married Adam Flint my Gr Gr Uncle brother to
Henry Flint my Grt Grandfather
William Jones son of Peter and Mary Jones nee Flint my 3XUncle and Aunt,...
Mary daughter of my 3XGrandfather John Flint who married Elizabeth Colledge
married 3 times all to the same Spencer family two sisters and a cousin
between.. By his 3rd wife he had a son William whose married twice his
2nd wife giving birth to a daughter Elsie Jones who married John James
Greenhough they parents to friends of mine today who live in the Wirksworth
area ..Williams first wife gave birth to Frances Jones who I knew as Francie
who married Arthur Kinder whose daughter Diana deceased was a close friend
of my sister brother and myself..her family living just behind my father's
Central Stores Grocery business at Middleton In my early 20s I worked at
Arkwrights Cromford Mill as a Lorry Driver for Troy Laundry a subsidiary
of Preston Model Laundry Diana was a Wagers Clerk there
3.Margaret Colledge married 1st husband James Stafford of Shottle
2nd husband John Derbyshire of Darley Dale he a Roof Slater his family
marrying into the Wildgoose family of Matlock Bank Building Contractors
and Quarry owners at Ashover
4.Thomas Colledge born 1743 married Anne Cooper of Callow 1768
5.Samuel born 1745 married Anne Vallance of Callow
6.William Colledge born 1750 married Elizabeth Vallance
7..John Colledge married Mary Jepson
8.James Colledge married Joanna Holland Their son William became an
Ordained Anglican Priest but in his mid 20s married Sarah Orme of Ashleyhay
and on emigrating to Ohio U.S.A. changed denomination becoming a Methodist
Minister..I have contact with his heir Jean Vongail Hamilton nee Colledge
Regards Stuaret G Flint
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Willersley Castle photo 152
19 Nov 2008 |
I offer the following information
Edward Wainwright was Head Gardener to Richard and Mary Arkwright nee
Simpson and then their son Peter Arkwright on the Willersley Castle
estate in the 1830s - 1850s ... Edward married Sarah Wigley in 1858 she
my kinswoman via Taylors Allens Beesley Macbeth and Flint..Edward and Sarah
married at St Mary's Church in 1858 the Arkwright family church just over
the bridge from the Castle now Cromford Parish Church ..Their witnesses
were Fanny Arkwright daughter of Peter Arkwright and John Beastall of
Morton who was Peter Arkwrights Butler.. Sarah was Edwards 2nd wife..He
died in the 1860s
Their daughter Louise became Head Accountant to Macbeths of Hulme and
Stretford Manchester at their Commercial Tailoring Factories where they
employed between the two units some 80 workers whilst Andrew Macbeth nephew
of Thomas and Isabell Macbeth nee Spencer one of the Manchester Tailoring
family (Isabell born Gorsey Bank Wirksworth she of my wifes kin and my
sister in laws family of Potter, founded Andrew Macbeth Solicitors of
Wirksworth now known as Andrew Macbeth Cash & Co now owned by Potter & Co
of Matlock Gertrude Cecile Macbeth of this family married Lawrence Beesley
of my kin who survived the sinking of The TITANIC in 1912 their son Alec
Beesley marrying Dodie Smith the author of 101 Dalmatians and other books
made into films by Walt Disney
William Smith my Gr Gr Uncle was also a Gardener on the estate but in time
became Groundsman and Head Gardener at The Botanical Gardens Matlock Beth ..
His son Samuel Smith a Spar Turner in time owned The Royal Museum Matlock
Bath once owned by John Mawe and then Vallance & Walker (not my Walker
family) and workshops on Museum Parade which he passed on to his son William
Smith...William Smith senior originating from Clay Mills nr Burton Upon Trent
married my Gr Gr Aunt Sarah Walker sister to my Grt Grandfather Joseph
Walker
In the 1850s Richard Simpson was an oft time visitor to Willersley Castle
he a J.P. from Eccles Manchester son of John and Elizabeth Simpson nee
Hawksley Elizabeth born at Nottingham .she sister John Hawksley who
married Mary Whittle of Arnold Notts whose son Thomas Hawksley born at
Arnold in 1803 was a famous Civil Engineer who built Trent Bridge Water
Works and thereafter was much sought after as a Gas and Water Engineer he
being a Fellow of The Royal Society and President of The Institution of
Gas and Water Engineers..also President of The Institution of Civil
Engineers..He founded systems of water purification unknown of before..
Having worked as an Engineer for a brief time in Water Treatment at
Haarlem Mill myself in the 1970s for Chord Chemicals, I read about Hawksley
many years ago...
My 5XGrandfather Peter Simpson was a Fulling Miller and Woolcomber at a
workshop on the land at Millers Green he leased from the Gell family
1720s where in 1771 a Cotton Mill was built by Sir Richard Arkwright and
Partners where water was used for the first time to drive his machinery
via the tributaries of The River Ecclesbourne some of which run underground
down the back of my home ..In heavy rain some of this water entered my
garden.. so much so that some years ago land drains had to be built at the
foot of my garden The Mill by 1815 was known as Haarlem Mill
Whilst the waters which fed the dams at Arkwrights Mill are no more a
small stream still runs near Speedwell Mill under the Callow Road near
The Chequers Inn / Farm once the home of my 4XGrandparents Samuel and
Millicent Colledge nee Simpson.
John Simpson was a Cotton Merchant with his brother Samuel Simpson..they
brother's of Mary who married Richard Arkwright. Mary John and Samuel
children of Adam and Elizabeth Simpson nee Oldham of The Stufy Manor House
Bonsall.. Adam Simpson was nephew of my 5XGrandfather Peter Simpson .
Adams sister Dorothy married Henry Flint Blacksmith son of Anthony Flint
Grocer and Inn Landlord of Holloway Their daughter's Sarah and Dorothy
married Samuel Prince ..1st wife Sarah and on her demise Dorothy.
Samuel Prince's Uncle and Aunt were my 6XUncle and Aunt Paul and Edith
Prince nee Henstock Edith sister of my 5XGrandfather Edward Henstock of
Slaley Hall nr Bonsall who married Mary Frost of Bonsall...Edward and
Mary's daughter Mary married William Hawley they my 4XGrandparents
whose daughter Mary married John Killer of Middleton they my
3XGrandparents whose daughter Mary married Samuel Flint in 1830 they
my Gr Gr Grandparents..Samuel Flint was one time Overseer at Ratchwood
Mine but by the opening of The Cromford & HP Railway became one of the
first Wharfingers at Middle Peak and Station Master at Steeplegrange
when a primitive passenger service was run on the line he also a Coal
Merchant at Flints Wharf Steepelgrange ..His son Henry Flint my Grt
Grandfather was Wharfinger at Friden nr Hartington and Station Master
at Parsley Hay. He also a Corn Merchant at Parsley Hay.. Henry lived at
Friden Station House now part of Friden Brick Works
Richard Arkwright after a time of co owning a Mill at Manchester with his
brother's in law John and Samuel Simpson sold the mill to them.. In my
teens my father Harry S Flint owned a Drapery Shop and on the counter was
an oak framed display cabinet for cotton reels.. Printed in gold lettering
in the front of the cabinet were the initials J. & S.Simpson Manchester..
The Simpson brothers were not as succesful in business as their brother in
law and in time sold out to I believe Thomas Houldsworth .who also bought
Arkwrights Rocester Mill which eventually was called Tutbury Mills
Many years ago I visited Rocester Mill..as members of my Flint family of
Darley Dale and Two Dales removed to Rocester and Uttoxetor when a Cotton
Mill Abraham Flint built at Ladygrove Road Two Dales failed due to a lack
of funds he selling it on to the Deykeynes who converted the mill into Flax
Manufacturing..This branch of my family on removing to Rocester and
Uttoxetor had dealings with Arkwrights Abraham's heirs becoming
Solicitors at Derby (Flint Bishop & Barnett founded by Abraham John
Flint who married Catherine Orme dau of Robert Orme of Bakewell Grocers
& Purveyor of Wine Wines...they living on Burton Road Derby. Abraham John
Flint in 1931 was National Labour Party M.P. for Ilkeston he succeeded
by Gorge Oliver he succeeded by Leopold Raymond Fletcher .
Their son Abraham Flint was an Derby Alderman members of his family
becoming Barristers and Q.Cs at Nottingham ... In my teens after major
surgery I worked for Orme & Co at their Darley Dale branch as a Provisions
Assistant, Orme & Co eventually taking over Seymour Meads and Hunters of
Wirksworth where in 1906 my father aged 12 years was an Apprentice he
becoming a Master Grocer ./ Draper / Gents Outfitter at Middeleton and
Wirksworth . Ormes then became part of International Stores they being
taken over by Fine Fayre now known as Somerfields )
John Flint. F.R.C.S. an heir of Abraham Flint of Two Dales returned to
Winster from Rocester as a G.P. .. living at Wensley I am led to believe
he was Medical Officer to Mill Close Mine and was a friend of the
Brittlebank family Solicitors of Oddo House Winster
In recent years I have made contact with a lady of this family.... Another
heir of Abraham Flint was Charles Flint who married Esther Aston of Bilston
he also a Solicitor at Stafford His Grandaughter Fanny Flint on the early
demise of her parents lived at Bolehill with my family of Thomas and Mary
Hall nee Flint (Thomas a Baker and Farmer at Bolehill.). Fanny married
Alvin Smedley of Steeplegrange whose family were of my wifes Evans and my
Wright / Frost family.. Alvin Smedley was my Grt Grandfather Joseph
Walker's Foreman Master Stonemason whose heir today of the same name is a
friend of mine who lives near my home..he a stalwart of Wirksworth British
Legion having served in the 2nd W.W. his wife deceased of Canadian birth
being a good friend of mine who often played the organ and the piano at
Church services I preached at and at Barmote Court (Senior Citizen Flats)
Midweek Fellowship meetings which I often spoke at about music and family
history or leading services.
Samuel Simpson retired to Matlock Bath whilst I believe John Simpson
retired to Nottingham ..
When Willersley Castle was purchased by The Wesley Guild in 1929 my Uncle
Rev Sydney Austin Price lived at The Mews Willersley Castle when he was
Superintendent Minister to Wirksworth Methodist Circuit 1932 -( Rev S.A.
Price married my mothers sister Elsie Walker) .In the late 1930s Joseph
Walker & Sons..my Grandfather John Walker being one of the sons with his
nephews Isaac and Joseph Walker, built Wirksworth Methodist Manse on
Derby Road which within the last 3 years when Wwirksworth Circuit was
absorbed into Matlock Methodist and United Reform Circuit has been
sold and purchased by an allied member of the Walker family.who iriginally
built it.. In the 1950s my brother in law Rev Arthur Macgregor Brown
deceased (married my sister) lived at The Mews Willersley Castle when
he was Probationer Methodist Minister to Wirksworth Circuit his "Boss"
Rev Arthur Roebuck who lived at The Manse at Wirksworth ..
Three of my immediate family today work at Willersley Castle.(Christian
Guild Holiday and Conference Centre) my son continuing the work as a
Gardener / Woodsman / Handyman on the estate which Edward Wainwright
began in the early 1830s
Just along the road from Willersley Castle is Bow Wood which on 30th May
1700 my 7XGrandfather Thomas Hoades purchased from John Spateman of
Rodenook Farm Wessington he a land owner (the Wigley and Gell family
married into Spatemans) I have it on record via manuscripts belonging to
the Arkwright family that John Spateman purchased Boughwood on Cromford
Bridge End Matlock and Browns Wood and Whitfield on Noth side of Derwent
except two Smelting Mills called Lums Smelting Mills on 20th June 1682
Also on record is 30th May 1700 Indenture John Spateman to Thomas Hoades
possession of Browns Wood and Whitfield North side of Derwent and Bough
Wood Matlock Cromford Bridge End..My Hoades family are also on record in
the Arkwright manuscripts re the Will of Thomas Hoades which states
10th July 1712 Will of Thomas Hoades of Wirksworth which inclcudes shares
left in the will to his wife of Ratchwood Orchard and Ravenstor Groves
and shares in all other meers to his son William Hoades (William my
6XGrandfather) Ratchwood Orchard Thisely and Ravenstor Mines plus The
Bage Wall Close and The George Mines Bolehill and The Dovegange Mines were
managed by my Flint family from 1640s - 1890 ie Henry Coates my
8XGrandfather at The Dovegange Samuel Flint my 4XUncle his heirs being
Wigley's and Beesley's and his brother Joseph Flint my 4XUncle his son
Henry Flint and his son Herbert Flint.. By the 1880s the main shareholder
of Ratchwood Mine was Frederick Arkwright of Willersley Castle ..My Gr Gr
Uncle Samuel J Sheldon had to inform Arkwright that as he had not kept the
mine in workmanship that the mine was to be given over to The Hopton Wood
Company.. By the 1950s a kinsman of mine by Sheldons Councillor Leslie A
Doxey owned the land where Ratchwood Mine was situated and built bunglows
on the site..Ratchwood Mine is still to be seen at the foot of one of the
gardens..
John Spateman in his will left a Smelting Mill and land to Thomas
Nightingale and by the mid 1700s my Hoades family sold Bow Wood to
Nightingales as a source of White Coal which fed the Smelting Mills..
My Grand fore bare family of Killer in this same period where Woodsmen
at Bow Wood living in cottages above where Wood End House was built..Bow
Wood today is cared for by The Woodlands Trust . Peter Nightingale 2nd
sold most of his estate to Sir Richard Arkwright . but Wood End House
after the Milnes family and Swettenhams had left the property became part
of the Smedley estate at Lea Mills..One of the more recent Directors of
Lea Mills lived at Wood End House when my Aunt Doris Walker was a
Departmental General Manager at Lea Mills in the 1930s - 1960..
My 7XGrandfather Thomas Hoades who owned the shares at Ratchwood Founder,
Orchard and Ravenstor Mines on Colehills twixt Steeplegrange and Rise End
was partner / shareholder to Robert Greensmith whose family built a large
Manorial Grange where Steeplegrange gets its name..Greensmiths heir sold
the Grange to Sir Richard Arkwright in the 1760s which Arkwright demolished
using the stone to build his first Mill at Cromford
Isaac Hoades my 4XGrandfather married Anne Shaw whose nephew John Shaw
began the family dynasty who opened up quarries at Matlock Dale Colehills
Hoe Grange Longcliffe and with Peter Bowne founded Bowne & Shaws Quarry
Middle Peak.. When Anne died Isaac married Elizabeth Peach whose heirs
are the Macbeth family aforementioned
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Molinas and Brownson/Walker links
17 Nov 2008 |
The following is information regarding my links with Johannes Conradt Molinas
Major Johannes Conradt Molinas born Netherlands married Madellin of
Gorsey Bank obt May 23rd 1661 Agent to Sir Cornelius Vermuyden re Land and
Mine Drainage at Isles of Axeholme Cambridgshire Levels Hatfield Chase
and The Dovegange Sough.. Henry Coates my 8XGrandfather born approx 1598
was Mining Agent to Sir Robert Heath Vermuydens partner at The Dovegange
Mines
Children of Johannes Conradt Molinas
Matthew born 1633 married Mary
Marcellus born 1640
Thomas born 1643
Edward married Dorothy Greenhough 1682
Children of Edward and Dorothy Molinas nee Greenhough
Dorothy born 1690 obt 1703
Francis born 1684 obt 1706
Hellena born 1706 obt 1706
Daniel born 16879 obt 1689
John born 1696
Catherine married Samuel Collinson alias Wheatcroft his mother Jane
my 8XAunt daughter of my 7XGrandfather William Wheatcroft who married
Mary Ragg Samuels first wife was Mary Spencer of Middleton
Daughter of Matthew and Mary Molinas
Mary Molinas married Anthony Bamford
Son
Anthony Bamford born 1717 married Alice Elliott of Mill House Green
Wirksworth where my 5XGrandfather Peter Simpson had a Fulling Mill 1720s
which he leased from the Gell estate the site where previously Gells
Nether Smelting Mill was situated and where in 1770 approx Sir Richard
Arkwright and partners built a Cotton Mill which by the 1820s was known as
Haarlem Mill and was where Robinson Madley and Hackett had a Smallwares
Mill followed after them by Joseph Wheatcroft as a Tape MIll and his son
George Hanson Wheatcroft who lived at Waltham House one time the Cottage
Hospital and then Maternity Home and now the newly refurbished Care Home
Children of Marcellus and Alice Bamford nee Elliott
1.Hannah Bamford born 1758 married Thomas Brownson of Parwich in 1791
whose son John married my 2XAunt Elizabeth Walker sister of my Grt
Grandfather Joseph Walker (Joseph born 1815 marr 3 times)
2.Marcellus Bamford married Elizabeth Mather dau of James Mather of
Matlock Their son Marcellus married Hannah Frost daughter of John and
Hannah Frost nee Wright of my kin Wrights being heirs of my 7XGrandfather
William Wheatcroft aforementioned John Frost was of my direct kin his
Grandfather my 6XGrandfather Robert Frost who married Dorothy Mather
kin of James Mather of Matlock
Footnote
Anna Brownson daughter of John and Elizabeth Brownson nee Walker married
my 3XUncle William Killer founder of Killers Quarry Middleton he brother
of my 2XGrandmother Mary Killer who married Samuel Flint in 1830..Anna's
sister Elizabeth Brownson married Frank Eaton a Railway Engineer who was
of both my wifes kin of Eaton and my sister in law ( my brothers wife)
family of Eaton of Cromford and Aqueduct Cottage Cromford Canal built by
Peter Nightingale on the Spur of the Canal which he had constructed to
reach Lea Mills before the Smedley family took over the works
It is believed that the Brownsons of Parwich are heirs of John Brownson
born at Glasgow who was a Steward to Mary Queen of Scots who was
incarcerated at Wingfield Manor and Tutbury Castle ..Wingfield Manor
owned by the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.who married Bess of Hardwick...by
Elizabeth 1st.. The Earls of Shrewsbury along with their allied kin the
Earls of Kingston Upon Hull also owned land in the Cromford area of which
I have researched and have first hand written evidence gained from
documents connected with local families some of whom were my 7X and
6XGrandparents of Killer and Hoades and my wifes Fox / Carden family of
Willersley Lane back in the 1600s who lived in the Willersley Cromford
Starkholmes and Matlock area and are recorded as having heirs who sold
land to Thomas Hallett Hodges who sold this land on to Sir Richard
Arkwright and to Thomas and his son Peter Nighingale 1st.whose son .Peter
Nightingale 2nd then sold most of his estate to Sir Richard Arkwright ...
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Regards Stuart G Flint
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My Uncle Rev Sydney Austin Price was Superintendent Minister at Retford
Methodist Circuit twixt 1940 - 1949 Uncle Austin was husband of my
mothetr's sister Elsie Walker
My Aunt Doris Walker who was before the 2nd W.W. a General Manager at
John Smedley Lea Mills was seconded by Mr John Bertram Marsden Smedley in
1940 to Ranskill Ordnance Factory nr Retford in charge of the Plastic
Explosives Rolling Mills Department
I have photgraphs of Ranskill Ordnance Factory staff including Aunt Doris
She once had the terrifying experience of one of the Mills exploding which
shattered one of the areas in the factory The all women employees refused
to re enter the buildings after the explosion which I believe resulted in
fatalities .. Managers were not allowed to work the Mills , but Aunt Doris
being the lady she was (I often had a tongue lashing from her in my youth)
ignoring her seniors orders not to do so, walked out into the factory with
the white overalls and rubber boots the girls wore, started up one of the
Mills and began to produce.. The girls slowly but surely filtered into the
factory one by one and full production was resumed..Aunt Doris at the end
of the war went back to Lea Mills becoming General Manager over some 200+
girls retiring in 1960..She was presented to H.M. Queen Elizabeth soon
after her retirement... Aunt Doris like her sister my Aunt Annie Grace
were also involved in work during the war which was a little cloak and
dagger in operation The end result as far as Aunt Doris was concerned was
that a group of German girls were bought over from Germany in 1939 whose
families were opposed to Adolf Hitler some living with my family ..
ie Hilda Geiler who Aunt Doris often visited in Berlin up to Hilda's
demise in more recent years The girls worked at Lea Mills
Aunt Doris attended Nottingham University her fees paid by Mr Marsden Smedley
My mother was Secretary up to marriage to Mr Smedley
Aunt Annie Grace worked for the M.O.D.after the war as a Senior
Administrator up to retirement During the war she was an assistant in the
bunker to Winston Churchill...
If you are interested in the Ordnance Photographs I can either send them by
email or let you have a look at them when you visit Middleton, although my
being able to visit you at Middleton will depend upon if I am mobile, as at
the moment I am house bound due to problems with my legs (unable to walk)
the Nurses having to visit twice weekly to dress them.. I had D.V.Ts in
my younger days after Major Surgery when I was In Bretby T.B. Surgical
Wards and the legacy today is down to that as I had Celulitis recently
which has left my legs in a bit of a state..If I cannot visit you..you may
feel able to visit me at Wirksworth..[address removed by webmaster]
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Middleton Football Club photo 102
16 Nov 2008 |
You may be interestred to know that Thomas Brittain who was Club President
1913 was son in law of my kinsman George Colledge
Thomas married Mary Colledge daughter of George and Hannah Colledge nee
Robinson of Cromford George set out as a Master Tailor but by the 1870s
was in business with partner John Keane as a Quarry owner at Baileycroft
Quarry Wirksworth he also a partner at a Lead Mine on Longstone Edge
(Backdale Mining Co.) where today a Quarry is being worked ..
Thomas and Mary's daughter Sarah Matilda Brittain married Alfred Fox son
of my wife's 3XUncle Luke Fox who was Station Master at Wirksworth Railway
Station from 1877-1890 Alfred was a Senior Clerk at the Station..Thomas
Brittain came from Warwickshire originally he a Civil Engineer who owned
Manystones Quarry Longcliffe nr Brassington..My wifes 3XUncle William
Thomas Needham Slack of Brassington was Thomas Brittains General Manager
at the Quarry ..George Colledge along with Thomas had a tunnel dug under
North End and ran a tramway from Baileycroft Quarry into Wirksworth Railway
yard just a little way beyond the Big 'ole Tunnel Baileycroft Tunnel
comes out under the Station House Garden and is now where the Children
Play area is re Wyverne Rail who have re opend the line from Wirksworth -
Idridgehay and by 2010 hopefull all the way to Duffield .Members of my
family are shareholders..as my Grt Grandfather Joseph Walker a Master
Stonemason and Building Contractor built property on the line and some
of the gritstone road bridges en route.. Joseph Walkers workshop and a
house are next door to the Station House off North End ..the garden
overlooking the railway line
George Colledge was nephew to my 3XGrandparents John and Elizabeth Flint
nee Colledge of Bolehill
Thomas Brittains son Thomas was Grand fore bare of an aquaintance of mine
who lives at Brassington today her family allied kin to my Petts family of
Monumental Masons of Middleton
Henry Jepson on the list and Arthur Killer Joseph Batterley and the
Brookes family are of my kin also .
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Soliloquy to Benjamin Andrew
16 Nov 2008 |
The following is a poem written by my former kinsman John Wright born
9th May 1749 of Bolehill ... John Wrights Grandfather was William
Wheatcroft my 7XGrandfather whilst his parents John and Hannah Wright
were of my kin also via Hannah nee Frost she daughter of my 6XGrandfather
Robert Frost John Wright was a noted Poet, he adjudicating at
Literature Society events.. He lived into his 80s his demise in 1828..
He attended Anthony Gell Grammar School where he excelled in English
Grammar ..On leaving school he became a Lead Miner at The Bage Mine
Bolehill where members of my Flint and Wright family were Agents My Flint
kin being so from 1790 - 1830 via my 4XUncle Joseph Flint his son Henry
Flint also Agent and Henry's son Herbert Flint up to 1890.. John Wright
himself became an Agent but also gained land and property from his family
which by his 50s he was able to retire He gave lessons to Bolehill
children free of charge before ever a school was available for the
children of that village .. His Grt Niece Anne Wright married my Grt
Grandfather Joseph Walker in 1836 as his first wife Joseph borrn 1815
Josephs 2nd wife on the early demise of Anne (she my blood kin via Frosts
and Wheatcrofts also neice of Anthony and Hannah Alsop nee Wright..Anthony
with his brother John Alsop Lead Merchants and Smelters at Lea Bridge
their alled kin being Smedley's of Lea Mills and Miller Wass ...) was
Margaret Fletcher of Wrockwardine Wood whose heirs today live at
Wirksworth and at Holloway ..On Margarets demise Joseph married her
Nurse my true Grt Grandmother Martha Sheldon in 1867 their son John
Walker my Grandfather who married Annie Cauldwell of Alderwasley in 1892
Benjamin Andrew was also of my family as he married Sarah Prince of
Bonsall The Prince family of my kin via my Henstock family of Slaley Hall
and Simpsons of The Study Manor House Bonsall
Benjamin Andrew was a member of The Wirksworth Volunteer Corp in the early
1800s which was formed as a Home Defence Corp in the event of Napoleon
invading Britain in 1805 ..Another of my kinsman Charles Gough of
Grassmere was also a member of The Volunteer Corp in the same era ..Charles
Gough is also remembers in verse in two poems written by Sir Waltert Scott
(Helvelyn) and by William Wordsworth (Fidelity)
To Bens Gun
Thrice welcome again to the shoulder of Ben,
So march on to fight or to drill
An old Volunteer who never knew fear
Come frog-eaters, soon as you will
Ye slavish gulls know, to valour we owe,
Our Nations magnanimous name
Brave John Bull and our Ben are the same sturdy men
All Wirksworth's wild echoes proclaim
I know soon, or late, that death is my fate,
If I die then my Country to save-
Applause will be given to earth and in Heaven
And my dust ever blest by the brave
Besides, Andrews name, in some book of fame
May be written for Britons to ken
And wherever I die, when freedom comes by
She'll point to the sod of our Ben
The Prince / Andrew Pedigree with corrections of errors made by
Thomas Norris Ince
William Prince of Longnor removed to Bonsall married Sarah Riley of Bonsall
Children
1.John Prince of Bonsall Famer married Margaret Abel daughter of German
Abel (Abels also my kin via other peds)
2.William Prince married Martha ...
3.Paul Prince married my 6XAunt Edith Henstock sister to my 5XGrandfather
Edward Henstock of Slaley Hall nr Bonsall (Ince states Edward's surname
as Staley.. I believe he must have meant Edward of Slaley.. strangley
though Stayle's of Cromford are of my kin
(Paul and Ediths nephew Samuel Prince married two sisters Sarah Flint
and Dorothy when Sarah died.. they daughters of Henry and Dorothy Flint
nee Simpson Dorothy Flint nee Simpson sister to Adam Simpson whose
daughter Mary born 1755 married Richard Arkwright of Willersley Castle
at Bonsall Parish Church 1780 son of Sir Richard Arkwright
Adam Simpson was nephew of my 5XGrandfather Peter Simpson..
4.Joanna married Jon Wood of Wensley
5.Lydia married Valentine Twycross of Hartington
6.Isaac Prince married Mary ....
John and Margaret Prince had one child Sarah who married Benjamin Andrew
a Woodsman he my kinsman His allied kin being the Tommison family of
Bonsall who owned a Lead Smelting Mill in Bonsall Dale . Tommison's
married into my Wright family of Bolehill ..An heir of this Tommison
family today lives at Llandudno who is my fellow family history researcher
Children of Issac and Mary Prince
1.Isaac Prince of Heanor
2.John Prince died in infancy
3.Samuel Prince died infancy
4.William Prince of Bonsall Chelsea Pensioner died unmarries
5.Samuel Prince married 1st wife Sarah Flint dau of Henry and Dorothy
Flint nee Simpson of The Study Manor House Bonsall 2nd wife on Sarah's
demsie her sister Dorothy
6.Ralph Prince married Mary Mather of Bonsall dau of William Mather.
7.Thomas Prince
8.George Prince married Mary Brace dau of Thomas and Grace Brace of
Bonsall
Samuel and Dorothy Prince nee Flint's son Samuel one time Grocer of
Manchester removed to The Study Manor House Bonsall on the demise of
his parents His son was a Curate at Bonsall Parish Church Samuel and
Dorothy's daughter Betty Flint Prince died at 11 months of age their
other children being John and Sarah.
Edward Henstock married Mary Frost of Bonsall they my 5XGrandparents
Their daughter Mary married William Hawley of Mettesforde Bridge whose
family owned a Forge removing on marriage to Rise end Middleton where
William my 4XGrandfather was a Mining Agent and Mine Partner with
Wheatcrofts of my family (William Wheatcoft of my kin married Elizabeth
Hawley sister to William Hawley they partners in mines) William and
Mary Hawley's daughter Mary married John Killer of Middleton Building
Contractor and Engineer they my 3XGrandparents Their daughter Mary
married Samuel Flint Wharfinger and Coal Merchant at Middle Peak Wharf
his coal yard at Steeplegrange Wharf (known to this day as Flints Wharf)
also partner with his cousins Joseph Flint and Thomas Hall in a Brick
Manufacturing business at the side of Flints Wharf now a residential
area known as Brick Fields Close leased from the Arkwright estate
Thomas Hall (married Mary Flint) also being a Farmer at Bolehill and
Baker / Grocer his heirs still in business as Grocers at Bolehill up to
1950 Luke Hall of this family trained Adam Killer of my kin as a Baker
who set up business at St Mary's Gate Wirksworth the Bakery still
working today ..
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Photos 591 592 William Holmes
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At the risk of being told once more that I must be related to everyone in
the Wirksworth area, I have to say that I am related via marriages to
William Holmes via my Land Flint Hoades Walker and Greenhough family
His pedigree is as follows
Thomas Holmes born at Brassington his fore bares coming as Weavers from
Lancashire
Thomas married Elizabeth Buxton dau of Walter Buxton of Bolehill Lead Miner
son
Walter Holmes born 1823 married Anne Land daughter of my 3XUncle and Aunt
George and Hannah Land nee Brookes of Bolehill George a Lead Miner at
The Bage Mine where members of my Flint family were Agents from the
1790s - 1890s others of my kin having seams in the mine named after them
it is believed George Land was son of my 3XGrandfather George Land who
married Betty Hoades George's sister Hannah Land married James Smith
Mining Agent of Carsington they my Gr Gr Grandparents Their daughter
Sarah married Thomas Cauldwell of Alderwasley he a Police Officer who
was killed in the line of duty at Sheffield aged 29 years..his daughter
Annie married John Walker they my Grandparents (Sarah Cauldwell on
Thomas's demise remarried my 3XUncle Robert Flint of Wigwell Nook Farm
Wirksworth Moor he son of cousins John and Mary Flint nee Flint.. John
Flint son of my 3XGrandfather John Flint whilst Mary was dau of Robert
Flint who in the 1850s he then in his late 60s emigrated with sons to Kays
Ward Utah as Latter Day Saints ..I am in touch with dozens of my kin who
live at Salt lake City Ogden Layton St George and Kaysville (was Kays
Ward) and have attended family reunions in recent months at Leek Staffs
when over 70 members of the family from Utah attended
son
William Holmes married Mary Anne Land dau of John and Martha Land nee
Greenhough
Martha daughter of John and Millicent Greenhough nee Flint Millicent
dau of my 3XGrandparents John and Elizabeth Flint nee Colledge ..I am
surrounded by Greenhoughs of this family today they living near my home
The following info is just for interest not for publication
Regards Stuart G Flint
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