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FROST - North Transept
For wording see:Ch032 in MI Section
Photo taken:11 April 2003
Source: Jayne McHugh, Ontario, Canada
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Stuart Flint writes:
The Samuel Frost as per the memorial Wirksworth Parish
Church is of my kin..Samuel married Nanny Smith
daughter of Richard and Ellen Smith nee
Fowler..Richard was partner to Thomas Smedley father
of John Smedley of Lea Mills.. Richards sister married
Thomas Smedley ... Richard and Thomas leased Le Mills
from Peter Nightingale who worked the mill before
Smedleys..Peter Gr Uncle to Florence Nightingale..One
of my kin by the name of Thomas Hoades..so legend has
it...courted Florence in her late teens and when she
turned down his proposal of marriage he committed
suicide...Samuel Frosts father was John Frost who
married Hannah Wright of Bolehill daughter of Samuel
and Silence Wright nee Cotterill
Silence was my blood kin also..and in more recent
times re 1836 my Grt Grandfather Joseph Walker
married Anne Wright of this family as his 1st wife...
Samuels Grt Grandfather Robert Frost was my
6xGrandfather he married Dorothy Mather at St Oswalds
Parish Church Ashbourne..Roberts son John Frost
married 1st wife Margaret Harding from Hopton 2nd wife
Esther Hill they my 5xGrandparents Mary their
daughter married John Flint my 4xGrandfather..
Samuel Frost was Manager at Wirksworth Savings Bank
now the office of Andrew Macbeth Cash & Co
Solicitors Samuel also had a Rope Making business at
Hammonds Court, a Coal business at Steeplegrange and
a Grocery Shop on West End with other members of his
kin which became Hunters in the 1890s and was where
my father trained as a Grocer 1907 aged 12 years after
his father William Flint was killed at Killers Quarry
1905 (Dec 5th). My Grandfather William Flints
Grandmother was Mary Killer sister to William Killer
who founded the quarry in 1845 passing it on to his
son who became known as Killer Bros Hopton Wood Stone
Many of the Stonemasons at Killers were Frosts,
Slacks, Doxey's,Evans, Flints, Batterley's, Spencers
all of my/ my wifes kin (my wife and I are 2nd
cousins)...Going back to the Smedley's my Aunt Doris
Walker was a General Manager at Lea Mills 1930s - 1960
over some 200 girls/women..she was a strong willed
spinster with quite a sharp toungue who is still
remembered by many of the 60+ aged ladies who worked
for her as a bit of an ogre.. she died in 4 years ago
at 99 yrs 11 months...
The Wrights of my kin married into Allsops of
Lea/Wensley who owned a Smelting Mill at Lea and
married into the Wass family who owned Mill Close Mine
1835 - 1920s Allsops also married into Smedleys at
the mill..Thomas Smedley partner to Richard Smith was
born at Steeplegrange..His nephew John Smedley
(cousin to THE John Smedley who gave his name to Lea
Mills who married into the Roebuck family originally
from Sheffield but Grocers at Wirksworth..Thomas
Roebuck whose daughter married John Smedley of the
mill was brother in law to Samuel Frost..) John the
cousin married my wifes 5xAunt Elizabeth Evans of
Middleton... Wrights also married into Allens,
Cotterills Graysons Collinsons Wheatcrofts also all
my allied kinsmen ...
Sorry if this is to long and a little of a meander..
Other kinsmen of mine married into Richard Smiths
family...
Regards
S G Flint
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