Updated 21 Jan 2009
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WIRKSWORTH Parish Records 1600-1900
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Decendants of SPENCER-2
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A pedigree researched by Stuart G FLINT
for the Wirksworth website
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Descendants of Francis SPENCER mar. 1669
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Hello John
Yes..get ready for it..The Spencers are both my wife and my allied kin
be it by various routes
The following is the full Spencer family history
Frances Spencer married Anne Dakin 1669
sons
Robert Spencer born 1669 married Ane Gell dau of Thomas and Mary Gell
nee Spencer of Middleton
Peter Spencer born 1777 married Maria or Mary Haslam 1702
William Spencer married Elizbeth
Child of Peter and Maria Spencer nee Halsam
Frances Spencer 1718 married Mabel Hall of Middleton 1745 Halls both my
wife's kin and mine Mabel daughter of William and Sarah Hall nee Higton
(A friend of mine and near neighbour is of this Higton family)
Children of Frances and Mabel Spencer nee Hall
1.Pheobe Spencer married John Sims 1770
2.Mabel married John Bateman 1774
3.Francis married my 5XAunt Elizabeth Hawley 1786 sister of my
4XGrandfather William Hawley who married Mary Henstock of Slaley Hall
their daughter Mary married John Killer of Middleton they my 3XGrandparents
Their daughter Mary Killer married Samuel Flint 1830 they my Gr Gr
Grandparents
4.Hannah married William Woodiwisse fore bare of my Aunt Janet Harriett
Fields Woodiwisse also known as Dolly Mather who married my father
Harry S Flint's brother
5.Mary Spencer married .......... Mather
6.Peter Spencer married Hannah (some doubt of her surname Latter Day Saints
have her as Potter or Porter ..I believe it to be Potter) they married
27th March 1794 and Grandparents of James Spencer who married Alice
Greatorex
Children of Robert and Anne Spencer nee Gell
Thomas Spencer married Hannah Hall 1726
Benjamin Spencer born 1698 married Mary Hall 1723
Children of Peter and Hannah Spencer nee Potter
1.Peter Spencer born 1795 married Elizabeth Spencer of Wirksworth 1820
2.Frances Spencer born 1796
3.Anne born 1799
4.Samuel born 1801
5.Mabel Spencer born 1804
6.James Spencer born 1896
7.John Spencer born 1808
8.Mage (Margaret) Spencer born
9.Mary Spencer born 1818 married John Flint son of Robert and Sarah Flint
nee Allen
Robert and Sarah my 4XUncle and Aunt (S.G.Flint) John Flint along with his
brother William Allen Flint who married Elizabeth Slack daughter of my
3XUncle and Aunt Samuel and Sarah Slack nee Land (Sarah sister of my Gr Gr
Grandmother Hannah Smith nee Land
Samuel Slack, of my wifes kinship) along with Robert then nearing his 70s
Sarah having died in 1829 emigrated as Mormons to Kaysville Utah in 1850
I have the full history of their departure and travel across the desert
wastes to Utah from Nebraska some of their offspring dying of Cholera en
route The History written by a Gr Grandaughter of John and Mary Flint nee
Spencer Mary Rose Flint I am in contact with the family at Salt Lake City
Kaysville Layton Ogden and St George
John's older sisters who did not emigrate to U.S.A. Mary and Hannah and
Martha married as follows..Mary married her cousin John Flint son of my
3XGrandparents John and Elizabeth Flint nee Colledge John and Mary
(cousins) had a daughter Mary who married John Tomlinson of Wirksworth
and a son Robert born 1839 who in his 40s married my Grt Grandmother Sarah
Cauldwell nee Smith whose 1st husband Thomas my true Grt Grandfather
killed whilst a Police Officer at Sheffield aged 29 years (Robert and Sarah
Lived with my Grt Grandfather Henry Flint widow and his brother Adam Flint
who married Millicent Marples all living at Wigwell Nook Farm Sough Lane
Wirksworth Moor. Robert Smelting Mill Manager at Longwaybank Cupalow where
today a retired persons bungalow site is situated called Cupalow Park ....
Martha married Henry Walker of my mother and fathers family of Hoades Frost
and Walker his allied kin being Ince..Hannah married Samuel Slack
of Middleton
Children of Peter and Elizabeth Spencer nee Spencer of Wirksworth
1.Mary born 1821
2.Peter Spencer born 1822 married Anne surname unknown Their son James
Spencer born 1851 married Alice Greatorex daughter of Benjamin Greatorex
they living on Greenhill just above Joseph Flint of my kin who played
cricket for Derbyshire in the 1870s
3.Hannah Spencer born 1825
4.James Spencer born 1828
5.Anne Spencer born 1834
6.Elizabeth Spencer born 1837
Children of Robert and Anne Spencer nee Gell
Thomas Spencer married Hannah Hall 1726
Benjamin Spencer married Mary Hall 1723
Children of Thomas and Hannah Spencer nee Hall
1.Thomas born 1727 married Hannah Dale 1753
2.Henry born 1729 married Dorothy Dale 1756
3.Isaac born 1740 married Sarah Buxton of Middleton 1764 they
5XGrandparents of my friend and family history researcher and my mother
in laws cousin M.Taylor nee Spencer her husband being nephew of Edith
Taylor nee Slack of my wifes kin M.Taylors brother Haydn Spencer deceased
was partner to my kinswoman May Flint of Flints Wharf Cottages Steeplegrange
This Spencer also Grand fore bare of Isabella Spencer who married Andrew
Macbeth
[Having re looked at the Spencer family tree I have found that Isaac and
Sarah Spencer nee Buxton had another son Thomas Spencer whose son Job
Spencer married Hannah Spencer ..Job and Hannah had a son Isaac who married
Rebecca ...who had a son William who married Judith Brookes of Middleton
William and Judiths son Frances Spencer married Elizabeth Ellen Slater of
Ireton Wood who may well be the Betty Spencer as she is living on Greenhill
with Slaters at one point being at age 17 years a Servant working for
George Allen Sub Postmaster at Wirksworth Post Office
This does fit in with the time scale around 1907 She married Frances
Spencer in 1885 See X597]
4.Mary Spencer
5.George Spencer
6.Martha Spencer
Child of Thomas and Hannah Spencer nee Dale
Thomas Spencer born 1753 married Anne Mellor 1772
Children of Benjamin and Mary Spencer nee Hall
1.Daniel Spencer orn 1730 married Anne Storer 1761 she my kin via Sheldons
My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather John Sheldon married Edith Storer of this family
2.Robert Spencer
3.Ellen Spencer
4.Hannah Spencer
5.Reuben Spencer born 1743 married Elizabeth Buckley Their son Reuben
Spencer married Mary Goodall of Middleton 1789 removing to Bonsall Moor
as Farmers Their son Benjamin Spencer born 1803 married Anne Spencer
dau of John and Rebecca Spencer Benjamin and Anne farmed at Bottom Leys
(also called Bonsall Leys ) Farm the farm formerly under the ownership of
Adam Simpson of my kin who lived at The Study Manor House Bonsall..
Bonsall Leys Farm is out over Slaley Way on land once owned by my Henstock
family who married into the Prince/Simpson family of The Study Manor House
Children of Daniel and Anne Spencer nee Storer
1.John Spencer married Martha Buckley of Matlock 1779
2.Daniel Spencer married Anne Wragg of my wifes kin 1789
Children of Thomas and Anne Spencer nee Mellor
1.Thomas Spencer born 1772
2.Henry born 1775
3.Hannah born 1778
4.Benjamin born 1781
5.George Spencer born 1784 married Hannah Hopkinson of Bolehill 1806
6.Anne Spencer married Thomas Godbehere 1810 cousin to my wifes
4XGrandmother Hannah Wragg who married Robert Evans in 1804
Hannah's mother being Hannah Godbehere
7.Elizabeth married Isaac Spencer 1808
8.James Spencer born 1792 married Sarah Hopkinson 1813
9.Anthony Spencer born 1796
10.William Spencer born 1789 married Martha Buckley
Children of Isaac and Sarah Spencer nee Buxton
1.Sarah born 1764
2.Isaac born 1766 married Martha Slack daughter of Abraham and Dorothy
Slack nee Flint fore bares of my friend M Taylor nee Spencer and Mabel
Spencer who married John Sheldon my 3XUncle
3.Anthony Spencer born 1773 married Ellen Duffield of Gorsey Bank..
4XGrandparents of M Taylor nee Spencer cousin of my mother in law and
Haydn also parents of Isabella who married Andrew Macbeth (Master Tailor
at 15 Clayton Street Hulme Manchester employing over 45 people making up
suits etc.. His son Thomas was father of Gertrude Cecile Macbeth who married
Lawrence Beesley of my kin having a son Alec Beesley who married Dodie
Smith of Manchester who on them both removing to New York U.S.A. Dodie
wrote the book 101 Dalmatians and other such works filmed by Walt Disney
Dodie died at Manchester in the 1990s I am in touch with Lawrence Beesley's
family in Canada
4.Hannah
5.Elizabeth
Children of Anthony and Ellen Spencer nee Duffield
1.Thomas Spencer born 1794 married Vina Bradshaw of Matlock at St Giles
Church Matlock 1816 3XGrandparents of M Tailor
2.Anthony Spencer born 1796 married 3 times 1st wife Sarah Hawley
daughter ot Henry Hawley of my mothers Hawley / Sheldon family of
Middleton and Wirksworth 2nd wife Grace Potter sister of Jonathan Potter
my sister in laws Grand fore bare ( J.Farnsworth her Grandmother being
Anne Potter... J. married my brother J M Flint) 3rd wife Sarah Godbehere
of my wifes allied kin
3.Sarah Spencer born 1797 married Richard Moore of Middleton The Miss
Moores two spinster sisters of this family in the 1950s taught my wife to
play the piano The Moores married into the Hall family
4.Isaac Spencer born 1799
5.Robert Spencer born 1801 married Mary Hall at Manchester he a Tailor
working for his in law Andrew Macbeth
6.Isabella born 1804 married Andrew Macbeth of Manchester married at
Manchester Cathedral 1826 Andrew Macbeths brother Isaac Macbeth of
Wirksworth Baker married Hannah Boden daughter of Abel and Anne Boden nee
Hoades dau of Isaac Hoades who was my 4XGrandfather he a Baker at
St Mary's Gate where Killers Bakery is today whose 1st wife was Anne Shaw
of Oker and Snitterton they married at St Helens Church Darley Dale in
1771 His 2nd wife was Elizabeth Peach married 1792 she mother of Anne
Hoades who married Abel Boden Abel son of Abel and Hannah Boden nee
Brittlebank of Winster Andrew Macbeth son of Isaac committed suicide his
son Andrew being the founder of Andrew Macbeth Solicitors
7.Henry Spencer married Mary Potter sister to Grace and fore bare of my
sister in law J Flint nee Farnsworth
8.Anne Spencer born 1810 married William Roper son of Francis and Dorothy
Roper nee Hawley Dorothy my kin via my Hawley Killer family Ropers
farmed at Town Head Farm Bonsall and Brightgates Farm Bonsall Moor and
at Kirk Ireton
Children of Thomas and Vinah Spencer nee Bradshaw
1.Thomas born 1819
2.Daniel Spencer born 1820 married Hannah Slack daughter of William and
Fanny Slack they my friend M.Taylors 2XGrandparents and via William and
Fanny Slack my wifes 3XGrandparents
3.John born 1822
4.William born 1828
5.Henry born 1824
6.Hannah Spencer married Isaac Spencer 1855 Isaac Spencer widow of Sarah
nee Buxton at age 75 years lived with Thomas and Vina 1841 census
Children of Danile and Hannah Spencer nee Slack
1.William Spencer born 1849
2.Sarah Anne Spencer
3.Anne born 1857
4.Emma Spencer born 1858 married Samuel Jepson Stonecutter at Killers
Quarry son of Joseph Jepson Joiner His heirs today are friends of mine at
Middleton and Darley Bridge they Funeral Directors at Middleton Matlock
Darley Dale and Bakewell R Jepson son of K Jepson being Musical Director
of Matlock Band today Prize Winners K Jepsons father Reginald of Duke
Street Middleton was Apprentice to my Grandfather John Walker
5.Isabella Spencer born 1859 married William Butler they fellow Trustees
with my Grandparents John and Annie Walker nee Cauldwell when Mount Zion
Methodist Church was built in 1905 by Joseph Walker & Sons My Grandfather
and his half brothers the builders William Butlers half brother Isaac
Butler was one time partner to my wifes Grt Grandmother Sarah Anne Holmes
he her 2nd partner having a son F H Butler whose half brother was my wifes
Grandfather Herbert Evans who married Sarah Jane Hall.. On Isaacs demise
Sarah Anne married Joseph Evans father of Herbert Sarah's 1st husband was
William Evans bother of her 3rd husband Joseph William Butler and Isabella
adopted a lady who married into the Harrison family (see J Harrison Water
Bailiff) whose daughter today is a friend of my family her husband a
Spencer whose family founded Middleton Silver Prize Band in 1892.. he
and myself co founders of The Dalesmen Male Voice Choir in 1987..
6.Grace Spencer born 1861 married George Else son of James and Hannah
Else nee Godbehere Their son George Else married my fathers sister
Millicent Flint, Uncle George a Manager at Bolsover Colliery where others
of my kin were Pit Deputies and Miners Sir John Plowright Houfton being
a Director at Bolsover along with Rufford Thoresby Creswell Clipstone
and others in the Doncaster area his cousin Percy Bond Houfton being the
Architect who designed all the Pit villages Sir Johns fore bares are of
my other Harrison family (married into my mothers Land and Brookes family
and my fathers Petts and Flint family) and Sims family (see Benjamin
Houfton family history on John Palmers web pages with whom I am in contact
also with Sir Johns Grandaughter )
7.Daniel Spencer born 1866 married Esther Evans sister of Joseph Evans
my wife's Gr Gr Grandfather who married Mary Slack
Joseph Evans owned Springus Lead Mine under MIddleton Moor and was a
member of The Grand Jury along with my John F Doxey of my kin of Wirksworth
Barmote Court my Gr Gr Uncle Samuel J. Sheldon kin of Doxey's being the
Deputy Barmaster
Children of Daniel and Esther Spencer nee Evans
1.Daniel born 1891
2.Joseph W Spencer born 1893 married Martha Dickinson who was kin of my
sister in laws family of Boden Potter and Farnsworth of Cromford Joseph
and Martha's son William Spencer was a friend of mine and my colleague at
Middleton Congregational Church when I was Sunday School Superintendent he
one time a pupil when my father was Sunday School Superintendent at the
Chapel He returned to Wirksworth when he retired as a Captain in
The Salvation Army in charge of the Corp at Bullwell and then Shirebrooks
Notts Bill Spencer married Kathleen Gratton of The Dale Wirksworth she
also an Officer in The S.A.
3.Hannah M Spencer
4.Ernest Spencer of Middleton his family lived on King Street Middleton in
my youth his daughter who I attended Middleton Junior School with living
near my home today
5.Leslie Spencer father of M Taylor my fellow family history researcher
and friend and Haydn Spencer deceased whose partner was May Flint of
Flints Wharf Cottages Steeplegrange Haydn living there up to his demise
in recent years Flint's having lived there from when the railway was
built (C&HPR) my Gr Gr Grandfather one time a resident there 1840s before
moving into the Station House Steeplegrange
I have much more information and can fill in with other branches of this
family up to the present day..but I think this will suffice for now..
Regards Stuart G Flint
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