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From: STUART FLINT
Subject: My wifes family of Wragg (allied kin of Carol Toulson's
family on your contributed peds site) 2nd attempt
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:40:22 +0100 (BST)
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The following is my wifes Wragg family pedigree
Samuel Wragg born 1715 married Temperance Frost my 8XAunt on Flint
sister to Robert Frost who married Dorothy Mather in 1707 Robert and
Dorothy my 7XGrandparents.. The name Temperance was taken from the
Gell family of Hopton Hall.. Temperance Gell sister of Phillip Gell
founded Temperance Gell School Carsington 1722.. My
Wheatcroft / Collinson family were Agents to Sir John Gell and his
heirs for many years.. In more recent years my Aunt Florence Wright
nee Walker was school mistress at Temperance Gell School up to the 1960s..
Children of Samuel and Temperance Wragg
- 1.Samuel born 1730 married Martha Brookes 1756
- 2.Peter born 1732 married 1st wife Elizabeth Smith..
2nd wife Martha Rouse widow nee Frost sister to my 4XGrandmother
Mary Frost who married John Flint they my 4XGrandparents
- 3.George Wragg married Anne Stafford..This Stafford family my kin
via other marriages through into the mid 1800s
- 4.Adam Wragg married 1st wife Henrietta Batty
2nd wife Hannah Potter daughter of James and Grace Potter who were my
sister in laws Grand fore bares (my brother's wife) see Potter listings..
Children of Peter and Elizabeth Wragg nee Smith
- 1.Temperance Wragg born 1770 married Thomas Potter 1795
Plasterer of Cromford Road Wirksworth they Grand fore bares of my
sister in law's family of Farnsworth / Millward
Children of Samuel and Martha Wragg nee Brookes
- 1.Mary born 1756 married Thomas Rogers 1777
- 2.Grace born 1758
- 3.Samuel born 1759 married Hannah Godbehere daughter of
Thomas Godbehere my wifes 5XGrandfather
- 4.Hannah Wragg married Job Gregory of Cromford
- 5.Joseph Wragg married Amy Hall of Middleton
- 6.Selina Wragg born 1763
- 7.Martha Wragg born 1767 married William Alsop Miner of Holloway
- 8.William Wragg married Mary Dean of Kirk Ireton
- 9.Isaac Wragg married Elizabeth Sheldon of my mother's kin Middleton
Children of Samuel and Hannah Wragg nee Godbehere
- 1.Sarah born 1780 married William Hunstone of Birchover 1816
- 2.Hannah Wragg born 1782 married Robert Evans 17th December 1807
they my wifes 4XGrandparents
- 3.Jane born 1785
- 4.Samuel Wragg married Mary Slack of Middleton see my Slack listings
- 5.Peter Wragg married Dorothy Slack daughter of Abraham Slack see
my Slack listings
- 6.Nathaniel Wragg born 1797 married Anne Spencer sister to Mary
Spencer who married John Flint son of my 4XUncle Robert Flint who with
his sons John aforementioned who married Mary Spencer and William Allen
Flint who married Elizabeth Slack also of my wifes family and my
Land family..emigrated as members of The Latter Day Saints in 1850 to
Kaysville Utah
Children of Samuel and Mary Wragg nee Slack
- Anne Wragg born 1820 married William Gamble Grocer of
Wirksworth 1843 This Gamble family related to my Harrison / Land / Brookes
family of Steeplegrange
Children of Peter and Dorothy Wragg nee Slack
- 1.Samauel Wragg
- 2.Peter Wragg born 1815 married 1st wife Hannah Wragg his cousin
2nd wife Sarah Buxton widow nee Spencer daughter of Reuben Spencer
(married into my Killer family)
- 3.Joseph Wragg born 1817 married Martha Andrew daughter of
Benjamin and Sarah Andrew nee Prince (This Prince family married into
my allied Simpson kin who married into the Arkwright family of Cromford..
the Andrew family kin of Brittlebanks Solicitors of Winster and Ashbourne)
- 4.Dorothy Wragg born 1820 married Parkinson Measure 1848 of
Melton Mowbray Plate Layer Cromford & HIgh Peak Railway
Children of Adam and Harriett Wragg nee Batty
- 1.Samuel Wragg born 1778 married Elizabeth Buckley 1800
- 2.Joseph Wragg born 1781
Children of Adam and Hannah Wragge nee Potter 2nd wife
- 1.James Wragg born 1785 married Sarah Wragg
- 2.Dorothy Wragg born 1789
Children of Joseph and Martha Wragg nee Andrew
- 1.Mary Wragg born 1838 married Samuel Spencer 1867
Children of Samuel and Martha Spencer nee Wragg
- 1.Pheobe Spencer
- 2.James Spencer
- 3.Joseph Spencer married Ruth Potter Adams
- 4.Walter Spencer
- 5.William Samuel Spencer married Ellen Buckley daughter of Joseph
and Jemima Buckley see Buckley family listings in contributed pedigrees
John Palmer's site
W.S.Spencer was founder of Middleton Victoria Brass Band founded to
celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee..later after winning silver prize at
Belle Vue National Brass Band Championships 1933 known as Middleton
Silver Prize Band now part of Brassington Middleton and Wirksworth
known in its short form B.M.W.Brass
William Samuel Spencer's Grandson Louis has recently taken up the baton
on the formation of B.M.W. Youth Training Band to make sure of the bands
continued future
Children of William Samuel and Ellen Spencer nee Buckley
- 1.Edward Alec Spencer born 1894 married Alice Slack daughter of
Henry and Mary Slack.see my Slack family listings .parents of my friends
Louis and Alec Spencer at Middleton today..Edward Alec known in my
youth as Alec Spencer was my brother sister and my music mentor he being
trained as Sunday School Superintendent at Middleton Mount Zion Methodist
Church by my Grandmother Annie Walker nee Cauldwell (Walker's built
Mount Zion 1905/06)..Alec Spencer and his brothers were instrumentalists
in their father's Band, Alec also Choir Master of Mount Zion Primitive
Methodist Chapel Choir his father William Samuel Choir Master at
Middleton Congregational Church where my father Harry S Flint was a
Deacon and Sunday School Superintendent
- 2.Joseph Samuel Spencer Choir Master at Middleton Weslyan Methodist
Church Bandsman Middleton Silver Prize Band where my Sheldon family were
Trustees
- 3.Walter Spencer married Martha Farnsworth daughter of Thomas and
Anne Farnsworth nee Potter, Martha my sister in law Jennifer Flint nee
Farnsworth's Aunt. Walter was Choir Master at Holy Trinity Parish
Church Middleton (many Jennifers in my family)
In my youth Alec Spencer's augmented choirs were made up of singers from
the four churches at Middleton and some from Wirksworth making choirs of
over 70 strong who gave renditions of Handels Messiah near Christmas
and Stainer's Crucifixion at Easter.plus concerts throughout the years
My mother and her sisters and my brother sister and I were members of
those choirs from youth into adulthood ..
Louis Spencer, Alecs son and myself continued that link singing in the
1960 with Zion Male Voice Quartet a prize winning foursome.
Louis and I co founded The Dalesmen Male Voice Choir nearly 20 years ago..,
my family, Louis and his wife also arranging Charity Concerts up to the
present day, our joint families having had association in music for
over 90 years..
Regards Stuart G Flint
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