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Taken 2005. Hopewell House Front View #1.
Hopewell House is a superb example of a Northern English high-Victorian stone built Villa/town house that time forgot. It retains around 80% of its original features, externally and internally. It was built by a local master stone mason-builder (Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose) in Matlock Bank Derbyshire in 1889 (the date and his initials LTW are carved - above the tall central window on the first floor above the main entrance to the house). Hopewell House probably survived largely intact because it was never owned by individuals wealthy enough to modernise it in the 1950s '60s and '70s. This is a view of the stepped front elevation facing North West down the Derwent Valley towards Chatsworth, the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, and is taken from the garden of the small cottage opposite.

Taken 2005. Hopewell House Front View #2.
The buildings to the left of Hopewell House are the original stable's block of the builder. He also built larger worskshop block behind the house - glimpsed behind the right hand corner of the house in this photograph. These two buildings are currently being converted into apartments by a property developer.

Taken 2005. The builder's and date stones of Hopewell House.
These are located high above the front entrance and photographed during roof repairs in 2005. The LTW stands for Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose, the builder. The stone is the local Millstone Grit, a high quality sandstone which made excellent millstones, hence its name.

David Baker also writes:

....having invested so much of ourselves and our income on the restoration of Hopewell House (including rescuing it from dry rot in the front) and having had the privilege of living in such an atmospheric and beautiful house, and such a beautiful area, for seven years, it has not been an easy decision to reach. But we will always have the satisfaction of knowing we have almost fully restored (if we had had the money we would have put back all 19 windows which locals say were of wonderful quality) a high Victorian gem of a town house and that it should now be safe for posterity from 'modernisation.' Although the County Architect who visited Hopewell House last year told me that very sadly he could not protect it under listing because of its period and because it 'only' had around 75-80% of its original interior and had not had someone famous living in it, so it is not yet completely safe from philistines. He told me that he had droves of Grade II listed building in Derbyshire with one tenth the character and original features of our house inside and out, but they were much older and therefore automatically qualified for listing).

My research on Hopewell House has been a final labour of love connected to the house, and as a scholar a rewarding activity in its own right. What is has also thrown up is that Matlock Bank's economic base in 1899 was powered largely by Hydrotherapy institutions, hosiery manufacture, and stone masonry/building activities as the housing stock expanded rapidly to accommodate the new found wealth created by visitors to Smedley's and Rockslide etc.

Rockslide is now fully converted to luxury apartments by the way. We can see it from our kitchen window. For a long time we all thought it would simply fall down as the original contractor built some luxury house in the grounds and then did a runner forcing the council to take repossession of it in 2002/3, but not before the Ballroom had collapsed. Still, in the end most of it has survived with a new and more honest contractor stepping in - thank goodness. The views from it are, of course, simply stunning!

Best wishes, David

Hopewell House, Matlock

[Thanks to David Baker for the following description and history of the house he has lived in for 7 years. 31 photos of the inside and outside of Hopewell House, with accompanying text can be found on David's website at www.yessy.com/DavidBaker/Home.html.
Compiled from a file of documents which pass from owner to owner with the house.]

Hopewell House,
2 Wellington Street, Matlock Bank, Derbyshire Dales:
A Very Short History.

Built in 1889 by Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose, variously registered in the 1881-1901 censuses as a stone mason and builder/contractor. In the 1891 Census he is recorded as aged 35 and living at 40 Wellington Street with his wife Annie (46), sons Antcliff (15) and Laurence Thomas Jr. (10), and daughters Rachel (13) and Gertrude (6). Along with James Antliff, the brother of his wife.

See Appendix 1, Appendix 3 and WILDGOOSE Family tree

* The spelling of Lawrence's name changes between censuses as does that of his wife in the 1901 Census return. See Appendix 2 below for a fuller list of the important local Wildgoose's of the period.

Wildgoose's initials "LTW" are beautifully intertwined in foot high letters under the 1889 date stone above the main entrance to Hopewell House. It is likely that as a master stone mason by training he carved these letters himself.

Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose was a member of the family famous for founding the Wildgoose building company, which still exists in Derbyshire as a multi-million pound construction business, and for providing generations of contributors to the local politics and the administration of the town. John William Wildgoose (see Appendix 1 below) was, like Lawrence Thomas, a Stonemason and became the Founder of Wildgoose Construction. He also lived in Wellington Street, and later Holmebank, Matlock. He was heavily involved in local affairs and erected the War Memorial in Matlock at a cost of £500 and unveiled on 13th. August 1921. He died in 1934 aged 73.

The Wildgoose name is rare and largely local to the Matlock and Derbyshire area. Aside from the well known civil engineering side of the family, they have provided solicitors and elected local council officials over several generations in the town.

There was a remarkable concentration of builder/stonemason and other Wildgooses in Wellington Street and surrounding area at the turn of the century, including: Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose - 24 Bank Road –Builder/Contractor/plumber/painter -as advertised in Kelly's Directory in 1891 (and the Builder of Hopewell House); John William Wildgoose - 51 Wellington Street - (Builder/Contractor/Quarry Owner - founder of Wildgoose Construction Company.); Davis M. Wildgoose - 54 Wellington Street - Foreman Stone Mason. George Wildgoose - 49 Church Street - Millwright. Frank H. Wildgoose - 2 Industrial Road - Plumber. [For a full list from 1841-1901 see Appendix 2 below]

Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose purchased the land to build Hopewell House from Richard Farnsworth by a deed of covenant on 4th January 1889, for one hundred and thirty five pounds and eighteen shillings, in order "to erect a messuage or dwelling house and other buildings thereupon." Hopewell House and two large stone outbuilding (builders workshops and stables for horses) was completed within the year given the date stone of 1889.

The only Farnsworth's registered in Matlock in the 1891 Census are George Farnsworth (aged 57 the head of family "living on his own means"), his wife Fanny (58), his son Leasone (33 - a soldier on furlough from South Africa), and James his brother (53 - also "living on his own means"). They also lived in Wellington Street (67), the same street in which the builder Wildgoose's lived and in which Hopewell House was built, which suggests that this could well be the family, especially as Mr Farnsworth and his brother were not recorded as having any profession, but rather each as "living on his own means".

In the original legal covenant of 1889 selling the land to Wildgoose, there are references to earlier deals within the Farnsworth family over this same parcel of land (known individually as House Close/Barn Close and Long Close/Wheat Stubble), which include the following references, including George and James Farnsworth’s names:

29th May 1846 from Thomas Leys to John Farnsworth. 9th May 1874 Richard Farnsworth, Anthony James Farnsworth, George Farnsworth, Charles Farnsworth and the wife of Joseph Smith and Esther Farnsworth, to the use of the said Richard Farnsworth. 9th May 1874 From Richard Farnsworth to the use of William Spencer. 30th January 1878. From William Spence to the use of the said Richard Farnsworth.

It is not likely that Thomas Wildgoose ever occupied his wonderful new town house, since he is registered at other addresses in both the 1891 and 1901 censuses. But as there is no census record for 1891 for 2 Wellington Street (or for 1 and 3-7) to verify this. What is clear is that by the 1901 census a William R. Swindell (a middle class "Stone Merchant" aged 42) was occupying the house with his wife Fanny aged 40, and six children, Mercy (13), Harold (10), May (7), Millicent (6), Fanny (3) and Arthur (10 months). In the 1891 Census William Swindell and his family were living at 59 Rutland St, Greenhill Terrace, Matlock, at which point he was listed as a "Stone cutter", so he has achieved a considerable betterment of himself in only ten years in coming to occupy the Victorian respectability of Hopewell House.

It appears likely that Wildgoose was either forced to rent the house and re-mortgage the property because of difficult times for his building business after 1889 and the need to raise capital (Hopewell House and its considerable workshop/stable outbuildings would, after all, have cost a great deal of capital to build to such a high quality), or that he built it as a speculative investment to sell or rent and had his initials carved on it so prominently it because he was proud of the quality of the workmanship throughout the house and wanted to advertise his abilities.

His reduction from the profession of Builder/Contractor to Stone Mason between the 1891 and 1901 censuses, and the loss of his live in servant in the household too, suggests that the former hypothesis may be correct and that the losses incurred on building Hopewell House and its extensive outbuildings could have ended, at least temporarily, his aspirations of running his own building/contracting business.

By 1915 Hopewell House and its outbuildings were in the hands of Liquidators, because the Crompton and Evans Union Bank which owned the land and buildings, had gone into voluntary liquidation. According to the agreement to sale drawn up by the Bank's liquidators in 1915, Lawrence Thomas Wildgoose had sold (or remortgaged) Hopewell House and its outbuildings to the Crompton and Evans Union Bank on 31st August 1891.

A Derby based Bank (Old Bank) acting as liquidators (in the persons of Robert Hugh Tennant and Matthew Attwood - "Bank manager") sold the house and outbuildings to the Matlock Bank Industrial and Provident Society (i.e. local CO-OP) on 28th September 1915.

Wildgoose received £1500 from the Bank in 1891 - the CO-OP paid only £1100 for it in 1915. The deeds for this offer the first record of the house under the name of "Hopewell House", but it most probably existed under this name from 1889, or shortly thereafter.

At that time the CO-OP acquired it (1915) Hopewell House is recorded as have resident within it the "Misses Radford" and Kelly's Directory for 1916, under "Matlock Private Residents" (meaning important people in Matlock) lists a John Radford as living in Hopewell House, perhaps they were his unmarried sisters, or his unmarried daughters having lost his wife.

Hopewell House was sold in 1915 as liquidated stock "together with the joineries and numerous workshops and other buildings in the occupation of Thomas Growden (or Gowden) Johnson" and "together with the Gaitsheds and other buildings in the occupation of the Society [clearly they had already rented some space on the property] erected on the four said parcels of land".

In May 1919 that the Matlock Bank Industrial Provident Society changed it name to Matlock and District Co-operative Society. Ironically the chairman of the first General meeting of the new CO-OP was one Bertie Farnsworth - probably a relation of the family which had owned the original land in the mid 19th century and who sold it to Wildgoose in 1889. The dealing surrounding Hopewell House and its ownership proved a very incestuous business. The CO-OP's registered offices remained as before in Smedley Street just below Hopewell House.

The CO-OP continued to occupy the whole site until it too went bankrupt in 1968, when the house and outbuildings passed back into the hands of private individuals. It has therefore been part of bankrupt stock twice in its 120 or so years of existence.

Hopewell House may, therefore, have been rented continuously since 1889, or used as a tied manager’s house after 1916, as there was a CO-OP hosiery factory in the outbuildings between the wars, according to locals, and the buildings were used to service milk floats and other CO-OP delivery vehicles in the 1950s and '60s. Various pieces of wood with the CO-OP’s logo on them were found by the owners in the loft during renovations in 2004-5.

There are plans (undated) which show that Hopewell House was going to be converted into two apartments by the CO-OP, although it is not clear if it was acted upon by the company since the actual conversion preserved the vestibule screen and had a different orientation for the downstairs bathroom from the plans left with the documents. However it is likely that it was the CO-OP that effected the conversion.

Fortunately, whoever did turn the property into two rented apartments, did not remove many of the period features in the conversion. Even though the beautiful stained glass inlaid inner vestibule screen in the lower Hall was moved, it was preserved by turning it around by 180 degrees to move the door to the opposite side and also moved a foot back towards the stairs (the floor tiles mark exactly where it used to stand). And a stud wall was built around one side of the main stair rail to allow entry to the upper apartment from the front door. Locals remember attending student parties in the house as at that time there was a college at the top of the road in a huge former Hydrotherapy building, converted into luxury apartments in 2004.

The new owners in 1968 were Arthur Cuthbert Woodhouse and his wife Lucy Jane Woodhouse, of 38 Jackson's Tor Road, Matlock. Ironically, the firm of solicitors which handled the conveyancing was Potter, Brooke Taylor and Wildgoose - most probably a descendent of the original builder and another example of the localised nature of business dealings in this small town.

Before the death of Arthur Woodhouse, on April 1st 1985, he and Lucy had moved into Hopewell House "Flats 1 and 2" (as the first ever owner occupiers perhaps) and on the 15th March 1986, Lucy Woodhouse sold Hopewell House to Stanley Graham Irving (a University lecturer) and his wife Pamela Helen Irving (a Sheffield Head Teacher) of West Lodge, Dale Road North, Darley Dale.

Pam and Stan, as they were known, are remembered affectionately by locals as complete eccentrics. At the time she resembled Cruella De Vil - of 101 Dalmatians fame - and he was an extremely pleasant person by all accounts. Her taste was extremely flamboyant and extrovert (lots of mixtures of pink, black and gold wallpaper and white rose motifs, and much of this remained when David and Su Baker bought Hopewell House in 1999).

The house owes much to Pam and Stan since it was they who reconverted it from two apartments into a single house in 1986-7. They also converted the two main cellars facing on to Hopewell Street into garages in 1986, spending around £4,000 and they had the badly wood-wormed windows replaced with more sympathetic than normal, and very high quality, UPVC double glazed windows in 1988, at a cost of a further £4,000 (by 2005 this would probably cost closer to £20,000 for the 19 panels involved - although the present owners would have preferred it if the original windows could have been saved).

The Irving's sold Hopewell House in 1993 to a local nurse, who in turn sold it to Dr David Baker (Warwick University Lecturer) and Mrs. Susan Baker (Stanton in Peak School Teacher) in December 1999.

Recognising from the outset the special quality of both the exterior stonework and period interior of this remarkable high Victorian Town House, David and Su Baker set about the major restoration of Hopewell House, spending around £90,000 on the project, and a huge amount of their own time and effort too.

By late 2005 they had brought this wonderful town house back to a condition something akin to when it was first completed by Wildgoose late in 1899, which had perhaps inspired him to carve his initials so prominently high on the frontage.

Hopewell House has, therefore, survived more than a hundred years of neglect, bankruptcy, conversion to apartments, and multiple rental occupation, to re-emerge as an extraordinary example of a stone built detached Town House/Villa of the high Victorian era.

Whoever owns this house is entrusted with looking after a very special building and whoever visits it will remember the experience.


Dr. David Baker
Politics and International Studies (PAIS)
University of Warwick
CV4 7AL
UK
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Outline WILDGOOSE family tree
Extracted from Census records 1841-1901 for Matlock Area
and with the help of Dawn Scotting of Derbysgen-L@rootsweb.com
and also help from Kay Feltham of freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~willgooseweb

    Cromford 1802 Laurence ====v==== Elizabeth WILDGOOSE | | | Matlock 1836 1855 1837 John ==========v=========== Rachel WILDGOOSE | DAVIS | | | |---------|-------------|------|------|-----------|-------------|-----------------|---------------|----------|---------|-------| 1855 1856 1858 1860 1862 1863 1865 1870 1873 1875 1879 Sarah Laurence*** Davis Edmund John Francis James Hannah Lubin Robert Sarah Elizabeth Thomas Mark Josiah William Henry Anthony Elizabeth George Phineas Eliza 1855 (Mar1874) (Mar1878) (Mar1882) (Mar1884) (Mar1886) (Mar1888) (Mar1890) (Mar1889) (Mar1898) 1876 (Mar1902) 1855 1857 1862 1866 1866 1869 1868 1860 1874 Annie MaryAnn HannahJne Sarah Jemima Annie M Cassandra John JaneEllen Frederick ANTLIFF BARNSLEY ECKERSLEY SMITH HOPKINSON HOLMES WHITE CHAPMAN BARNSLEY RILEY | | | | | 1889 | | or | | | | | | | | James 1875 Antliff 1878 Anthony 1882 Ethel 1884 Rachel 1887 James 1889 Daisy 1892 Arthur 1899 Harold William 1877 Rachel 1879 Ann 1885 Nellie 1885 Lilian 1890 Bertha 1893 Edmund 1905 Lubin SPENCER 1880 Laurence 1881 John H 1889 Laurence 1893 Eva 1895 Ernest 1884 Gertrude 1886 Eleanor 1893 Ernest 1896 Francis 1896 Norman 1896 Olive 1898 Charles 1900 Evelyn 1898 Horace 1899 Harriet 1901 Herbert 1904 Laura Notes ***Builder of Hopewell House (see "LTW 1889" on namestone)

Appendix 1

1881 Census

70---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Lawrence      WILDGOOSE    Head    M 25  M  Builder               Matlock
Anne          WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 26  F  Builders wife         Caunton NTT
Antliff John  WILDGOOSE    Son       5   M  Scholar               Matlock
Rachel Elizb  WILDGOOSE    Dau       3   F  Scholar               Matlock
James         ANTLIFF      Bro IL  U 21  M  Plumber               Caunton NTT
Lawrence      WILDGOOSE    Son       6m  M                        Matlock

1891 Census

40---Wellington Street---[Matlock]
Laurence T*   WILDGOOSE    Head    M 35  M  Builder & contractor  Matlock
Anne          WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 36  F                        Caunton NTT
Antcliff Jno  WILDGOOSE    Son     S 15  M  Apprentice mason      Matlock
Rachel E      WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 13  F  Scholar               Matlock               Elizabeth
Laurence Tho  WILDGOOSE    Son     S 10  M  Scholar               Matlock
Gertrude Han  WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 6   F  Scholar               Matlock               Hannah
Mary Jane     FROST        Boarder W 58  F  Living on own means   Nottingham NTT
Sarah         DURDEN       Servant S 18  F  Domestic servant      Winster

1901 Census

23---Bank Road---[Matlock]
Lawrence T    WILDGOOSE    Head    M 45  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Annie         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 46  F                        Caunton NTT
Rachael E     WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 23  F                        Matlock
Gertrude H    WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 16  F                        Matlock

Appendix 2

1851 Census
 
123---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Lawrence       WILDGOOSE      Head      M  48  M   Stone mason         Cromford
Elizabeth      WILDGOOSE      Wife      M  41  F                       Tansley
John           WILDGOOSE      Son       U  15  M   At home             Matlock
Elizabeth      WILDGOOSE      Dau          9   F   Scholar             Matlock
Hannah         WILDGOOSE      Dau          2   F                       Matlock
 
019---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
John           WILDGOOSE      Head      U  26  M   Stone mason         Matlock
Emma           WILDGOOSE      Sister    U  15  F   House servant       Matlock
 
024---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Thomas         WILDGOOSE      Head      M  61  M   Stone cutter        Darley
Elizabeth      WILDGOOSE      Wife      M  59  F                       Handley
 
1861 Census
 
157---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]--- [Hopewell House’s Builder’s Father and Mother]
John         WILDGOOSE    Head    M 25  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Rachel       WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 24  F  Wife                  Matlock
Laurence Tho WILDGOOSE**  Son       5   M                        Matlock [Builder - Hopewell House]
Davis Mark   WILDGOOSE    Son       2   M                        Matlock
Edmund Josia WILDGOOSE    Son       11m M                        Matlock
John         PEARSON      Lodger  U 58  M  Farm labourer         Not Known
George       HALLAM       Lodger  U 27  M  Stone mason           Belper
James        BENNCH       Lodger  U 22  M  Porter                Chapel en le Frith
 
#158---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]---
Joshua       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 28  M  Stone getter          Belper
Mary Ann     WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 28  F  Wife                  Warslow STS
Lydia        WILDGOOSE    Dau       8   F  Scholar               Matlock
Hannah       WILDGOOSE    Dau       6   F  Scholar               Matlock
Mary         WILDGOOSE    Dau       5   F  Scholar               Matlock
Anthony      WILDGOOSE    Son       3   M                        Matlock
Sarah        WILDGOOSE    Dau       8m  F                        Matlock
 
132---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Laurence     WILDGOOSE    Head    W 58  M  Stone mason           Cromford
Hannah       WILDGOOSE    Dau       12  F  Scholar               Matlock
 
157---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
John         WILDGOOSE    Head    M 25  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Rachel       WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 24  F  Wife                  Matlock
Laurence Tho WILDGOOSE    Son       5   M                        Matlock
Davis Mark   WILDGOOSE    Son       2   M                        Matlock
Edmund Josia WILDGOOSE    Son       11m M                        Matlock
John         PEARSON      Lodger  U 58  M  Farm labourer         Not Known
George       HALLAM       Lodger  U 27  M  Stone mason           Belper
James        BENNCH       Lodger  U 22  M  Porter                Chapel en le Frith 
 
158---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Joshua       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 28  M  Stone getter          Belper
Mary Ann     WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 28  F  Wife                  Warslow STS
Lydia        WILDGOOSE    Dau       8   F  Scholar               Matlock
Hannah       WILDGOOSE    Dau       6   F  Scholar               Matlock
Mary         WILDGOOSE    Dau       5   F  Scholar               Matlock
Anthony      WILDGOOSE    Son       3   M                        Matlock
Sarah        WILDGOOSE    Dau       8m  F                        Matlock
 
20---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
John         WILDGOOSE    Head    M 36  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Betsy        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 40  F                        Lea
 
22---The Hurst---[Matlock]
Laurence     WILDGOOSE    Head    M 57  M  Farmer occ 220 acres  Matlock   Empl 4 men
Eliza        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 37  F                        Lea
Sarah        CROSSBY      Servant U 16  F  House servant         Cromford
John         EDGE         Servant U 19  M  Carter                Ashover
Joseph       ?            Servant U 16  M  Shepherd              Darley
Charles      BRADSHAW     Servant U 14  M  Cow boy               Matlock
 
1871 Census
 
214---Bank---[Matlock]
John         WILDGOOSE    Head    M 35  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Rachel       WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 34  F                        Matlock
Laurence S   WILDGOOSE    Son       15  M  Son asst              Matlock
Davis M      WILDGOOSE    Son       13  M  Son asst              Matlock
Edmund J     WILDGOOSE    Son       11  M  Scholar               Matlock
John William WILDGOOSE    Son       9   M  Scholar               Matlock
Francis H    WILDGOOSE    Son       8   M  Scholar               Matlock
James A      WILDGOOSE    Son       6   M  Scholar               Matlock
Hannah E     WILDGOOSE    Dau       1   F                        Matlock
Elizabeth    ROUSE        Servant U 17  F  Domestic servant      Matlock
 
1881 Census
 
70---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Lawrence**    WILDGOOSE    Head    M 25  M  Builder               Matlock
Anne          WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 26  F  Builders wife         Caunton NTT
Antliff John  WILDGOOSE    Son       5   M  Scholar               Matlock
Rachel Elizb  WILDGOOSE    Dau       3   F  Scholar               Matlock
James         ANTLIFF      Bro IL  U 21  M  Plumber               Caunton NTT
Lawrence      WILDGOOSE    Son       6m  M                        Matlock
 
37---Matlock Bank---[Matlock] 
Anthony       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 23  M  Stone cutter          Matlock
Mary Eliza    WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 20  F                        Stanton
Lydia         WILDGOOSE    Dau       4m  F                        Stanton
 
49---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Joshua        WILDGOOSE    Head    M 48  M  Stone merchant        Belper
Mary Ann      WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 48  F                        Walsall STS
Lydia         WILDGOOSE    Dau     U 28  F  Dress maker           Matlock
Joshua        WILDGOOSE    Son     U 17  M  Stone cutter          Matlock
Margaret      WILDGOOSE    Dau     U 13  F  Scholar               Matlock
John W.       WILDGOOSE    Son     U 10  M  Scholar               Matlock
Thomas F.     WILDGOOSE    Son     U 9   M  Scholar               Matlock
Charles A     WILDGOOSE    Son     U 8   M  Scholar               Matlock
Ralph A.      WILDGOOSE    Son     U 6   M  Scholar               Matlock
 
100---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
John          BARNSLEY     Head    M 53  M  Stone mason           Winster
Ann           BARNSLEY     Wife    M 50  F  Stone masons wife     Winster
Jane Ellen    BARNSLEY     Dau     U 6   F  Scholar               Matlock
David Mark    WILDGOOSE    Son iL  M 23  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Mary Ann      WILDGOOSE    Dau     M 24  F  Stone masons wife     Winster
Ann Elizab    WILDGOOSE    Gdau      21m F                        Matlock
 
27---Matlock Bank---[Matlock] 
John          WILDGOOSE    Head    M 45  M  Builder               Matlock
Rachel        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 44  F  Housewife             Matlock
John William  WILDGOOSE    Son     U 19  M  Stonemason            Matlock
Francis Hey   WILDGOOSE    Son     U 17  M  Apprentice plumber    Matlock
James Anthny  WILDGOOSE    Son     U 15  M  Apprentice grocer     Matlock
Hannah Elzab  WILDGOOSE    Dau     U 11  F  Scholar               Matlock
Lubin Geo     WILDGOOSE    Son     U 7   M  Scholar               Matlock
Sarah Eliza   WILDGOOSE    Dau       1   F                        Matlock
Elizabeth     ROUSE        Servant U 27  F  General servant       Matlock
 
81---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Richard       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 53  M  Stone mason           Darley Dale
Jane          WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 46  F                        Matlock
Thomas        MARTIN       Lodger  W 39  M  Drapers shopman       Dumfries SCT

1891 Census
 
40---Wellington Street---[Matlock]---
Laurence T**  WILDGOOSE    Head    M 35  M  Builder & contractor  Matlock
Anne          WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 36  F                        Caunton NTT
Antcliff Jno  WILDGOOSE    Son     S 15  M  Apprentice mason      Matlock
Rachel Eliz   WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 13  F  Scholar               Matlock               
Laurence Tho  WILDGOOSE    Son     S 10  M  Scholar               Matlock
Gertrude Han  WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 6   F  Scholar               Matlock               
Mary Jane     FROST        Boarder W 58  F  Living on own means   Nottingham NTT
Sarah         DURDEN       Servant S 18  F  Domestic servant      Winster
 
45---Wellington Street---[Matlock]
John          WILDGOOSE    Head    M 29  M  Foreman mason         Matlock
Sarah         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 25  F                        Darley Dale
Rachel M      WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 6   F                        Darley Dale
Lawrence W    WILDGOOSE    Son     S 1   M                        Matlock

75---Cavendish St---[Matlock]
John          WILDGOOSE    Head    M 54  M  Stone merchant        Matlock Bank
Rachel        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 54  F                        Matlock Bank
Lubin George  WILDGOOSE    Son     S 17  M  Joiners apprentice    Matlock Bank
Sarah Eliza   WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 11  F  Scholar               Matlock Bank
Elizabeth     ROOSE        Servant S 41  F  Domestic              Matlock Bank
 
188---Lodge---[Matlock]
Charles       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 31  M  Town postman          Matlock Bath
Emma          WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 25  F                        Wirksworth
Frances E     WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 1   F                        Matlock Bath
 
180---Smedley St---(2 rooms)---[Matlock]---
Joshua        WILDGOOSE    Head    M 28  M  Stone cutter              Matlock
Ellen         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 23  F                            Matlock
Mary A        WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 7m  F                            Matlock
 
49---Church Street---[Matlock]
George        WILDGOOSE    Head    M 35  M  Millwright, sawmills  Matlock
Sarah         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 32  F  Clothing dealer  Barton 
Herman E      WILDGOOSE    Son       1   M                        Matlock
Ethel         WILDGOOSE    Dau       5   F  Scholar               Matlock
John H        WILDGOOSE    Brother S 32  M  Bath attendant        Matlock
Sarah         FENTEM       Servant   11  F  General servant dom   Darley
 
#104---Barnard Terrace No 4---[Matlock]---
Richard       WILDGOOSE    Head    W 63  M  Mason                 Darley
George        WILDGOOSE    Gson    S 17  M  Mason apprentice      Darley
Sarah Jane    WILDGOOSE    Gdau    S 15  F  Housekeeper dom       Matlock
Annie         WILDGOOSE    Gdau    S 14  F  Scholar               Matlock
Lubin Richd   WILDGOOSE    Gson    S 10  M  Scholar               Matlock
 
197---Chesterfield Road---(4 rooms)---[Matlock]
Mary Anne     WILDGOOSE    Head    W 58  F                        Staffordshire STS
Lydia         BOWLER       Dau     M 38  F  Dressmaker            Matlock
Margret       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 23  F                        Matlock
John W        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 20  M  Stone cutter          Matlock
Charles A     WILDGOOSE    Son     S 18  M  Lab stone quarry      Matlock
Ralph H       WILDGOOSE    Son     S 14  M  Stone cutter          Matlock
 
51---Rutland St---[Matlock]
Davis M       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 32  M  Foreman stone mason   Matlock
Mary A        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 33  F                        Winster
Ann E         WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 11  F                        Matlock
John H        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 9   M                        Matlock
Eleanor       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 4   F                        Matlock
Ann           BARNSLEY     Boarder W 60  F                        Winster
Jane E        BARNSLEY     Boarder S 16  F  Hosier                Matlock
 
22---Chesterfield Road---(4 rooms)
Francis H     WILDGOOSE    Head    M 27  M  Plumber               Matlock
Jemima        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 25  F                        Ashover
James H       WILDGOOSE    Son     S 3   M                        Matlock
Bertha        WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 1   F                        Matlock
 
170---Chesterfield Road, The Gable---[Matlock]
Robert        WILDGOOSE    Head    W 68  M  Retd Maufacturer JP   Matlock Bridge  Own means
Hannah        WILDGOOSE    Cousin  W 64  F                        Cromford
Elizabeth     WILDGOOSE    Cousin  S 45  F                        Ambergate
Hannah M      LOWE         Servant S 33  F  House keeper          Lea Cromford
Lousia        WISHER       Servant S 40  F  Cook                  Darley Dale
Sarah E       LOWE         Servant S 27  F  Housemaid             Lea Cromford
 
1901 Census
 
23---Bank Road---[Matlock] ---(page 5,ED 9, RSD "Matlock",RG13/3266)---
Lawrence T**  WILDGOOSE    Head    M 45  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Annie         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 46  F                        Caunton NTT
Rachael E     WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 23  F                        Matlock
Gertrude H    WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 16  F                        Matlock
 
#51---Wellington St, 5---[Matlock]--- [Founder of Wildgoose Construction]
John William  WILDGOOSE    Head    M 39  M  Builder, Contractor   Matlock    Quarry owner
Sarah         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 35  F                        Darley
Rachel M      WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 16  F                        Darley
Lawrence W    WILDGOOSE    Son     S 11  M                        Matlock
Ernest H      WILDGOOSE    Son     S 7   M                        Matlock
Olive M       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 4   F                        Darley
Horace E      WILDGOOSE    Son     S 2   M                        Matlock
Laura A       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 7m  F                        Matlock
 
54---Wellington St, 8---[Matlock]
Davis M       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 42  M  Foreman stone mason   Matlock
Mary A        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 44  F                        Winster
John H        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 19  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Eleanor       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 14  F                        Matlock
Ann E         BRIDGES      Dau     M 21  F                        Matlock
George L      BRIDGES      Son iL  M 23  M  Plumber               Matlock
Adah E        BRIDGES      Gdau    S 2   F                        Matlock
Ethel M       BRIDGES      Gdau    S 9m  F                        Matlock
 
286---Matlock Bank---[Matlock]
Antliff J     WILDGOOSE    Head    M 25  M  Stone mason           Matlock
Florence L    WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 22  F                        Darley Dale
 
42---Industrial Rd, 2---[Matlock]
Frank H       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 37  M  Plumber               Matlock
Jemima        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 35  F                        Ashover
John H        WILDGOOSE    Son       13  M                        Matlock
Bertha        WILDGOOSE    Dau       11  F                        Matlock
Eva           WILDGOOSE    Dau       8   F                        Matlock
Francis       WILDGOOSE    Son       5   M                        Matlock
Charles       WILDGOOSE    Son       3   M                        Matlock
Harriett      WILDGOOSE    Dau       1   F                        Matlock
 
51---Matlock Green---[Matlock]
George        WILDGOOSE    Head    M 45  M  Millwright,wood iron  Matlock
Sarah         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 42  F  Wardrobe dealer       Barton Needwd STS
Hersman E     WILDGOOSE    Son     S 11  M                        Matlock
Elizabeth     WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 7   F                        Matlock
Mary Ann      WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 3   F                        Matlock
Annie Maud    COX          Servant S 21  F  General servant dom   Cheltenham GLS
 
#89---Matlock Bank---(3 rooms)---[Matlock]
Joshua        WILDGOOSE    Head    M 37  M  Quarryman gritstone   Matlock
Ellen         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 32  F                        Matlock
Mary Alice    WILDGOOSE    Dau       10  F  School                Matlock
 
#139---Chesterfield Rd---[Matlock]
Mary A        WILDGOOSE    Head    W 68  F                        Marston STS
Thomas        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 29  M  Quarryman-stonecutter  Matlock
 
332---Cavendish St---[Matlock]
Lubin G       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 27  M  Joiner,organist etc   Matlock
Jane E        WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 26  F                        Matlock
Harold D      WILDGOOSE    Son       1   M                        Matlock
 
52---Brunswood Rd, Devonshire Terrace,1---[Matlock]
Charles       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 41  M  Town postman          Matlock Bath
Emmie         WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 34  F                        Wirksworth
Frances E     WILDGOOSE    Dau       11  F                        Matlock Bath
Annie E       WILDGOOSE    Dau       7   F                        Matlock Bath
Charles E     WILDGOOSE    Son       6   M                        Matlock Bath
Victor J      WILDGOOSE    Son       4   M                        Matlock Bath
Florence Mary WILDGOOSE    Dau       6   F                        -
 
319---Wellington St, Oldham House Hydro-therapy Institution ---[Matlock]
John          WILDGOOSE    Head    M 63  M  Hydropathist          Matlock
Rachael       WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 62  F                        Matlock
Sarah E       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 21  F                        Matlock
Elizabeth     MARRIOTT     Servant S 39  F  Domestic cook         Manchester WAR
Eva E         MARRIOTT     Servant S 14  F  Servant domestic      Ashover
Agnes W       HILL         Servant S 30  F  Domestic table maid   Darley
Lilian        MCCONNEL     Servant S 25  F  Domestic table maid   Borrowash
Helen         ASKEW        Servant S 17  F  Servant domestic      Tansley
Frances M     WHEATCROFT   Servant S 20  F  Servant domestic      Wessington
Maud          MARCH        Servant S 17  F  Servant domestic      Tansley
Maria         MARCH        Servant S 21  F  Servant domestic      Tansley
Elizabeth     PROUST       Servant S 47  F  Servant domestic      Matlock
Hannah        HURSTHOUSE   Servant S 40  F  Domestic seamstress   Matlock   deaf,dumb
Thomas        KNOWLES      Servant S 19  M  Domestic boots        Matlock
Daisy A       WILDGOOSE    Gdau    S 11  F                        Matlock
John          FISHER       Visitor M 63  M  Gentleman             Ashover
Lewis N       WHALEY       Visitor S 25  M  Plumber               Ashton LAN
Elizabeth     LANGFORD     Visitor S 79  F                        Manchester ,Long Sight
Frances       EYRES        Visitor S 70  F                        Cheshire CHS
Sarah A       CATHER       Visitor W 56  F                        Liverpool LAN
Elizabeth     OLIVER       Visitor W 63  F                        Liverpool LAN
Elizabeth A   SALT         Visitor M 33  F                        Gawsworth CHS
Henry         LEES         Visitor M 70  M  Watch maker           Macclesfield CHS
James         HILTON       Visitor M 57  M  Machinist master      Oldham LAN
Mary I        HILTON       Visitor M 55  F                        Oldham LAN
Richard       WHALEY       Visitor M 63  M                        Great -? UNK
Egbert        THOMPSON     Visitor S 26  M  Accountant            Oldham LAN
Frances       RATHBONE     Visitor S 52  F                        Hornsey MDX
John H        FARMER       Visitor S 40  M  Lace manufacturer     Nottingham NTT
Seth          DAWSON       Visitor M 57  M  Engineer master       Skellinthorpe YKS
Simon         BUTTERWORTH  Visitor M 54  M  Woolen manufacturer   Rochdale LAN
Robert        FIDLER       Visitor M 46  M  Grocer                New Mills
William H H   SHAW         Visitor S 35  M  Cotton Mill manager   Nottingham NTT
Richard       HARTLEY      Visitor M 50  M  Fancy goods manufact  Liverpool - partly deaf
Hannah        HARTLEY      Visitor M 53  F                        Thirsk YKS
Henrietta     HARDERN      Visitor M 50  F                        Rochdale LAN
Jesse         HARDERN      Visitor S 16  F                        Oldham LAN
Elizabeth     TOULSON      Visitor W 47  F                        Sheffield YKS
Joseph        REEDS        Visitor M 43  M  Fitter                Cromford
Agnes L       MILTON       Visitor S 25  F                        Oldham LAN
Mabel         CLEGG        Visitor S 23  F                        Oldham LAN
Jane          WOOD         Visitor M 50  F                        New Church LAN
Thomas W      STOCKDALE    Visitor M 64  M  Grocer                Settle YKS
George R      WATSON       Visitor S 17  M  Machine joiner        Failsworth LAN
 
109---Matlock Moor---(4 rooms)---[Matlock]
James A       WILDGOOSE    Head    M 35  M  Bath attendant        Matlock
Cassandra     WILDGOOSE    Wife    M 32  F                        Darley Dale
Arthur        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 9   M                        Matlock
Edmund        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 7   M                        Matlock
Ernest        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 5   M                        Matlock
Norman        WILDGOOSE    Son     S 4   M                        Matlock
Evaline       WILDGOOSE    Dau     S 11m F                        Matlock
Arthur        WHITE        Fath iL W 81  M  Formerly coachman     Darley Dale

Appendix 3


Information from Kay Feltham of freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~willgooseweb


Descendants of John Wildgoose n.1836

John Wildgoose n.20 Mar 1836 m. 22 Jan 1855 Rachel Davis
Their children:
  Sarah n.1855 d.1855 b.07 May 1855
  Lawrence Thomas c.11 Apr 1856 (builder, plumber and painter) m.00 Dec 1874 Annie Antliff
  Davis Mark c.27 Jun 1858 (stone mason, architect and surveyor) m.1878 Mary Ann Barnsley (i)
  Edmund Josiah n.00 Jun 1860 d.00 Mar 1909 m.1882 Hannah J. Eckersley
  John William c.09 Mar 1862 d.1934 (founder of Wildgoose Construction Company) 
    m.00 Mar 1884 Sarah Smith
  Francis Henry c.08 Feb 1863 (plumber) m.1886 Jemima Hopkinson
  James Anthony c.24 Sep 1865 (grocer and bath attendant) (ii)
    m.(1) 00 Mar 1888 Annie Maria Holmes m.(2) 1890 Cassandra White
  Hannah Elizabeth n.1870
  Lubin George c.18 Jan 1873 (proprietor of hydroptherapy baths) m.1898 Jane Ellen Barnsley
  Sarah Elizabeth n.09 May 1879 c.08 Jun 1879

Lawrence Thomas and Annie Antliff
Their children:
  Antliff John n.10 Nov 1875 c.26 Dec 1875 (stone mason and musical instrument dealer) 
    m.1900 Florence Louisa Hayto
  Rachel Elizabeth n.19 Jul 1877 c.22 Aug 1877 
  Lawrence Thomas c.23 Sep 1880 c.24 Oct 1880
  Gertrude Hannah n.25 Mar 1884 c.29 Apr 1884 m.00 Sep 1908 Albert Antliff

Davis Mark and Mary Ann Barnsley
Their children:
  Ann Elizabeth n.00 Sep 1879 m. George L. Bridge
  John Henry n.27 Aug 1881 c.02 Oct 1881 m. Mary Henderson
  Eleanor n.06 Oct 1886 c.04 Feb 1887

Edmund Josiah and Hannah J. Eckersley
Their children:
  Ethel n.00 Dec 1882
  Nellie n.1885 m.1910 Walter Baker

John William and Sarah Smith
Their children:
  Rachel Mabel n.08 Jul 1884 c.20 Aug 1884
  Lilian Ethel n.24 Nov 1885 c.19 Dec 1885 d.1887 b.21 Jan 1887
  Lawrence William c.00 Dec 1889
  Ernest Henry n.00 Jun 1893 d.22 Mar 1918 m. Doris Wright (iii)
  Laura Asenath n.1894
  Olive May n.1896
  Horace Edmund n.00 Sep 1898

Francis Henry and Jemima Hopkinson
Their children:
  James Henry n.26 Jul 1887 c.28 Aug 1887
  Bertha n.1890
  Eva n.1893
  Francis n.1896
  Charles Frederick 00 Jun 1898 d.28 Mar 1918 (iv)
  Harriett n.00 Mar 1899

James Anthony and Annie Maria Holmes
Their child:
  Daisy A. n.00 Jun 1889 (v)
James Anthony and Cassandra White
Their children:
  Arthur n.10 Jan 1892 (carpenter) m.09 Dec 1915 Edith Marie McCormack (vi)
  Edmund n.21 May 1893 d.00 Aug 1969 m.10 Jul 1914 Emily Betteley (vii)
  Ernest n.00 Sep 1895
  Norman n.26 Dec 1896 d.27 Sep 1916 (viii)
  Evelyn n.00 Jun 1900
  Herbert n.14 Oct 1901 d.00 Sep 1966 

Lubin George and Jane Ellen Barnsley (ix)
Their children:
  Harold n.1899
  Lubin Curtis n.1905

Rachel Davis c.22 Apr 1837
Annie Antliff n.1855 (boarding house keeper)
Mary Ann Barnsley n.1857
Sarah Smith n.1886
Jemima Hopkinson n.1866
Annie Maria Holmes n.00 Sep 1869 d.1889 in childbirth b.26 Apr 1889
Cassandra White n.1868
Jane Ellen Barnsley c.16 Sep 1874
Florence Louisa Hayto n.27 Aug 1878 c.15 Aug 1886
George L. Bridge n.1878 (plumber)
Edith Marie McComrack n.14 Nov 1891 d.00 Nov 1985

(i) Davis Mark served on the Matlock District Council, retiring in 1918.
(ii) James Anthony and Cassandra White with their children emigrated to 
Winnipeg, Canada
(iii) Ernest Henry was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. 
He died at the Battle of St. Quentin and has no known grave but is 
commemorated on the Poziere War Memorial and on the Matlock War Memorial.
(iv) Charles Frederick was a Sergeant in the Sherwood Foresters, killed 
in action. I have seen his grave (and left him a poppy) at Etaples Cemetery. 
The stone is touchingly inscribed: "Think what a boy should be. He was that."
(v) I believe Daisy also emigrated to Canada and m.01 Jul 1914 George Moore Walker
(vi) Arthur served in the Canadian army.
(vii) Edmund served in the Canadian army.
(viii) Norman served in the Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Infantry. 
He died whilst on active service and is commemorated in the Canadian 
First World War Book of Remembrance.
(ix) Lubin George played the double bass in the Matlock Brotherhood Orchestra.

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