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From: STUART FLINT
Subject: The Else / Flint connections
2nd correction re Else Butler this to be used if poss.
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:57:37 +0000 (GMT)
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THE ELSE FAMILY
The following is my Flint / Else connections
Thomas Else born 1687 married Mary Marples of Wirksworth 1710
Son
- Ralph Else born 1726 married Hannah Brookes of Middleton
Son
- Thomas Else born 1768 married Mary Hallam of Bolehill 1792
Son
- James Else born 1805 married Mabel Spencer 1828 Mabel born 1808 to
Francis and Elizabeth Spencer nee Hawley.(married 1789) .Elizabeth my
5XAunt her brother William Hawley being my 4XGrandfather
(married Mary Henstock of Slaley Hall Bonsall they my Killer / Flint
connections)
Son
- James Else born 1832 married
1st wife Hannah Godbehere 1854
2nd wife Maria Radford widow nee Pearson 1870 daughter of John Pearson
Hannah his 1st wife was daughter of Samuel and Mary Godbehere nee Gratton
of The Dale Wirksworth..This Godbehere family back in the 1700s were of
my wifes fore bare kin..The Grattons married back into Else in the 1900s
Children of James and Hannah Else nee Godbehere 1st wife
- 1.Samuel born 1855 married Elizabeth Brookes dau of Joseph Brookes
Elizabeth sister of William Brookes who married Samuel Else's sister Mary
below
- 2.James Else married Hannah Vallance 1879
- 3.Thomas Else married Hannah Gratton daughter of Charles Gratton of
The Dale
- 4.George Else born 1862 married Grace Spencer daughter of
Daniel Spencer of Middleton see Butler family history
- 5.William Else born 1863
- 6.Mary Else born 1865 married William Brookes son of Joseph Brookes
Children of James and Maria Else 2nd wife
(Maria widow of Josiah Radford Tapeweaver.. Maria nee Pearson daughter
of John Pearson )
The following are Marias children by Josiah Radford living with Else on
The Dale
- 1.Mary Radford married William Thompson of The Dale Quarryman
- 2.Hannah Radford married Samuel Pearson Tapeweaver
- 3.Sarah Anne Radford
Children of James and Maria Else 2nd wife
- 7.Alice Else married Arnold Edwin Gell House Painter son of
John Gell House Painter
- 8.Arthur Collyus Else born 1874
- 9.Maria Else obt infant
- 10.Walter Martin Else
Children of George and Grace Else nee Spencer
lived at Middleton
Grace was sister to Isabella daughters of Daniel and Hannah Spencer nee
Slack..Isabella married William Butler
- 1.George Else born 1891 married Millicent Flint daughter of William
and Gwenillian Flint they my Grandparents Uncle George and Aunt Mllicent
lived at Hunlocke Road colliery cottages Bolsover where Uncle George was
a coal miner
- 2.Emma Else
- 3.Hannah Else
- 4.Daniel Spencer Else
- 5.William Spencer Butler Else
- 6.Grace Else married Ernest Bunting of Wirksworth lived on
King Street Middleton in my youth..they parents of friends of mine today..
One of their daughter's on leaving school worked for my father in his
shop at Middleton up to marriage and when dad became very ill in the 1950s
she returned and for a time virtually ran the shop staying until we
closed the business in the 1970s.. Her sister taught me to drive and
also worked in the shop for a time..more recently leasing The Whitworth
Hotel Darley Dale where the best meals in the district were served..
Another sister married into the Gratton family of The Dale he a stalwart
of Wirksworth Brass Band and B.M.W.Band
- 7.Mary Annie Else married John Harrison of Middleton (always known
as Jack Harrison) he an Engine Driver on The Cromford & High Peak Railway
once having the experience of driving a runaway train which turned over
into the garden of the Station Masters house at Steeplegrange, he and
his fireman jumping clear before the engine turned turtle...John and
Mary's daughter B...... Harrison worked for my father in his shop at
Middleton from leaving school to marriage..whilst her sister J...........
Marchington nee Harrison also worked with my mother when Dad was
seriously ill.. June Spencer nee Harrison another sister and her
husband Louis Spencer are my friends today.. .. Junes mother Mary
Annie Harrison nee Else was reared by her Uncle and Aunt, William
and Isabella Butler nee Spencer see Butler listings on John Palmers site
Children of George and Millicent Else nee Flint
- 1.Grace Else married George Bentley of Chesterfield coal miner at
Bolsover Colliery lived next door to Uncle George and Aunt Millicent on
Hunlocke Road, both deceased
- 2.Gladys Else married George Reddish of Bolsover coal miner
Bolsover Colliery George deceased
Regards Stuart G Flint