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From: STUART FLINT
Subject: Evans family history
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:48:51 +0100 (BST)
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The following is the family history of the
Evans family of Bonsall / Middleton / Cromford my wife's family
Hannah Evans husband unknown Hannah possibly a single woman born
at Bonsall
Child of Hannah Evans
Henry Evans of Middleton married Silence Eaton 1773 daughter of
John and Dorothy Eaton nee Else of Cromford..Witnesses Thomas Buxton
John Wibberley
Children of Henry and Silence Evans
- 1.Henry born 1774 marr Mary Adams of Rise End Middleton
- 2.George Evans born 1777 married
1st wife Esther Wheeldon 1795
witnesses Benjamin Andrew Sarah Haynes
2nd wife Mary Holehouse
- 3.Thomas Evans born 1780 marr Mary Haynes of Elton 1830
- 4.John born 1783 obt 1798
- 5.James Evans born 1789 married Hannah Walker daughter of Phillip Walker
of Middleton witnesses Gamalieil Hall Phillip Walker (Gamalieil Hall
was brother to Caleb Hall who married Hannah Flint my 4XAunt sister to
John Flint my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather ...The Halls were also of my wife's kin)
- 6.Robert Evans born 1786 married Hannah Wragg daughter of Samuel and
Hannah Wragg nee Godbehere..they my wifes 4XGrandparents witnesses
Daniel Spencer and Peter Wragg Daniel 3XGrandfather to Mrs M Taylor
nee Spencer a friend / relation of my wife and I today who lives at
Middleton.. Peter Wragg brother to Hannah
Children of Henry and Mary Evans
All obt in infancy Dorothy Hannah Silence
Children of James and Hannah Evans
- 1.James born 1822 married Anne of Matlock surname unknown James and
Anne lived on Scarthin Nick he at first a Blacksmith then Steam Engine
Driver.. Their children were Jane Sarah Anne Harriett and Elizabeth
- 2.Elizabeth Evans born 1820 married John Smedley (Elizabeth his 2nd wife)
John Smedley was son of Thomas and Martha Smedley nee Wright..Martha my
Flint / Walker kinswoman via Wheatcrofts and Frost born at Wrights
Cottages Wirksworth Moor.. John Smedley's 1st wife was Sarah Barker
daughter of Edward and Mary Barker nee Flint Mary my 5XAunt daughter
of John and Mary Flint nee Frost my 4XGrandparents..Edward Barker a
Master Framesmith /Lead Miner born at Ufton Barnes Alfreton his fore
bare family from Ilkley Yorkshire..John Smedley was distant kinsman of
John Smedley of Lea Mills see Smedley family history..
- 3.Hannah born 1824 obt 1829
- 4.Daniel born 1827 Physically Handicapped obt 1874
- 5.Henry Evans born 1836
- 6.Thomas Evans Grandson born 1848
Children of George and Mary Evans
All obt in infancy Elizabeth John and Silence other than for
Thomas born 1814
Children of Robert and Hannah Evans nee Wragg
- 1.Henry born 1811
- 2.Jane born 1818
- 3/4 Twins Anne and Silence born 1816
- 5.Joseph born 1810 married Millicent Brookes 1828 she aged 18 years
Children of Joseph and Millicent Evans nee Brookes
- 1.Hannah Evans born 1836 married Henry Pearson of Cromford son
of Cornelius Pearson Haulier / Carter
- 2.William born 1845 married Millicent Doxey nee Mather widow of
Daniel Doxey of Middleton Millicent sister to Thomas Mather who
married Pheobe Spencer (Thomas and Pheobe parents of Elizabeth who
married Samuel Thomas Killer son of William and Anna Killer nee
Brownson, Anna daughter of my 2XAunt Elizabeth Brownson nee Walker
and her husband John Brownson Wood Turner / Carpenter China House
Yard Wirksworth..William Killer founder of Killer's Quarry my
3XUncle his sister Mary Flint nee Killer my Gr Gr Grandmother..
The Mathers of this family adopted my Aunt Harriett Janet Fields
Woodiwisse (also known as Dolly Mather) who married Sydney Flint
my father's brother...
- 3.Joseph Evans born 1847 married Mary Slack daughter of John and
Esther Slack nee Needham of Brassington / Middleton..they my wife's
Gr Gr Grandparents Mary Evans nee Slack's brother William Thomas
Needham Slack was Quarry Manager at Manystones Quarry Longcliffe
owned by my Colledge / Brittain family..Mary Slacks sister Esther
married George Birley son of George Birley Grocer / Stonemerchant
Birley's Monumental Quarry Middleton Moor (just above Killer
Brother's Quarry) Mary and Esther's brother in law was Sydney
Flint son of Herbert Flint of Bolehill who married Elizabeth Ellen
Birley daughter of James Birley Foreman Birley's Quarry..Herbert
Flint Mining Agent at The Bage Mine Bolehill..The Birley's originally
from Ashford In The Water then Heage then Middleton..John Brookes
Birley of this family along with his father John Richard Birley were
both Deacons at Middleton Congregational Church J.B.Birley a friend
of my father also a Deacon
- 4.Sarah Evans born 1842
- 5.Samuel Evans born 1834 obt in infancy
- 6.Martha Evans born 1831
Children of Joseph and Mary Evans nee Slack
- 1.Esther born 1870 married Daniel Spencer they Grandparents to
my/my wifes friend /relation Mrs M Taylor nee Spencer and her
brother Haydn deceased of Middleton, Haydn partner to May Flint
deceased of my distant kin of Steeplegrange
- 2.Ernest Evans born 1883
- 3.Flora Evans born 1889
- 4.George born 1879 obt age 4 months
- 5.Millicent Evans born 1873 obt 6 months of age
- 6.Mary born 1875
- 7.William Evans born 1877 married Sarah Anne Holmes daughter of
Daniel and Annie Holmes nee Millward 1897 had daughters Lily who
remained a spinster and Clarice who married Thomas Alsop Farmer
Burrows Farm (at the head of Via Gellia near The Flatts) William
died and Sarah Anne then had a son Frank Holmes Butler the Butlers
my kin via Shaws of Bowne & Shaw and Spencer's after which she
married her 1st husbands brother Joseph Evans they my wife's
Grt Grandparents..
- 8.Noah Evans born 1880 Grandfather of Howard Evans and Angela..
Howard and I joint family history researchers
Children of Daniel and Millicent Doxey nee Mather
- 1.John Doxey born 1864 married Lizzie Haywood
- 2.George Doxey born 1866 married Sarah Kilkenny daughter of
Dominic Kilkenny formerly born in Ireland...The family in my youth
were known as Kilkenny Doxey's their heirs living in Wirksworth to
this day..Others of this family lived with my distant kin at
Blaenau Ffestiniog North Wales one of the Kilkenny's marrying into
the Roberts family of Porthmadog.. My nephew lives at Blaenau Ffestiniog
today, he a Manager Lecturer at Bangor University.. his mother,
my sister, wife of the late Rev A Macgregor-Brown is Vice President
of The Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir at Blaenau ... George Doxey was
killed in 1900 at Killer Bros Quarry five years before my Grandfather
William Flint was killed at the quarry 1905
Children of Joseph and Sarah Anne Evans nee Holmes my wifes Grt Grandparents
- 1.Herbert Evans married Sarah Jane Hall daughter of John Thomas and
Emma Hall nee Fox..Emma's kinsman John Samuel Fox Stonemason married
Anne Willans Killer daughter of my 3XUncle William Killer.. after
J.S.Fox's demise she married William Batterley of Middleton...Herbert
and Sarah Jane were my wife's Grandparents Herbert a Limestone Kerb
Dresser at Hopton Wood Stone (Killer Bros)
- 2.Mary Evans married Harry Holmes lived at Middleton..
- 3.Joseph Evans removed to Margate Kent on marriage I am in the process
of contacting his Grandson Phillip Evans of Australia who is also
researching his family..
Children of Herbert and Sarah Jane Evans
- 1.Vinetta deceased married Donald Matkin of Carsington..
- 2.Clarice Evans married Donald Allsop of Bonsall Donald deceased
- 3.Dorothy Evans married Wilhelm Steube 1948 Wilhelm (deceased) a
Printers Mate /Father of The Chapel SOGAT at Bemrose Ltd.Derby born
at Demker Magdebourge Germany ... Dorothy and Wilhelm parents to my wife..
Children of William and Millicent Evans widow Doxey nee Mather
- 1.Hannah born 1872 died aged 8 weeks
- 2.Martha born 1874
- 3/4 MIllicent and Hannah Twins obt 1875
- 5.Herbert Evans born 1881 married Sarah Killer daughter of
William Killer They parents to William Evans who married Ida Bateman
and in my youth lived on The Alley Middleton and George Evans who was
my School Master at Middleton Junior School 1940s
Regards Stuart G Flint