CHAPEL- EN- LE- FRITH PARISH COUNCIL
FAMILY HISTORY MESSAGE BOARD
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This page is to assist anyone who is trying to trace ancestors or deceased relatives who lived in the Parish, it is primarily for persons who live some distance away and cannot easily visit the area or for those persons who are visiting in the future Do note that any information posted on this site is available for all to see! Please send a brief email with your request for information but give as much detail as possible. You must give your full name and email address. Requests may be edited. Email to the Website coordinator Cllr. Guy Martin – martinguy@aol.com RESIDENTS OF THE PARISH If you can help with any of the requests please email the Enquirer direct. Messages will be deleted after about one year! _______________________________ Try these sites first for information http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dusk/chapel-e-l-f.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dusk/chapel-newspapers.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dusk/celfmarphil/celfmarriages.html
We would like to thank Pauline Nicks for the kind donation to the Parish
Council Archives of a Peak Forest Almanak and a
thirteen page document from the Epiphany Sessions Derbyshire, To view please contact the Clerk of the Council |
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| 05/02/2009 | Greetings, I hope you can help me. I am trying to trace my great-grandfather, George Heathcote, born about 1847 in Chapel en le Firth. As a young man (we do not have a date) he immigrated to the United States, married, had 2 children, and enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, at age 33 years and one month. He was discharged in October 1885 and then disappeared from our family records. We believe he may have returned to Chapel en le Firth, leaving his 2 children in the care of his Mother and Father-in Law, remarried (his wife, my maternal great-grandmother, had died in 1885 in the U.S.) , and perhaps had another family. Any information you are able to provide will be very much appreciated. Thank you, Ruth V. Uecker Email: Sunflr@Inteliport.Com |
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| 9/02/2009 |
Hello: I live in Canada and my relatives
come from Chapel en le Frith. My gggg grandfather is
Ralph Turner who married Elizabeth Frith on
October 7, 1806 in Chapel en le Frith
They had (possibly) the following children,
and maybe some children between 1807 and 1812.
Joseph b. Apr. 22, 1812
Ralph b. Mar. 22, 1818
Elizabeth b. July 14, 1822
James b. Aug. 3, 1823
Mary b. July 10, 1825
Sarah b. Apr. 6, 1827
I wonder if you would be able to put me in
touch with a researcher who would look up these records in your parish
church for me. I would be willing to pay anyone who would be willing to
take the time to look up this marriage and these births. Thanks you for
any suggestions you may be able to give me. I would not bother you but
I do not know who to contact in the area who would be willing to look at
the original records. Thank you from cold Nova Scotia, Canada, Mary
Leblanc
Email: jmleblanc@accesswave.ca |
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| 8/03/2009 |
Dear Mr Martin, I wonder if you can help me
I am looking for a man who I believe was a wentworth from an
aristocratic family. so far I have found him as Thomas Smith in 1851
census stating that he comes from Chapel en le frith Papers that were
to be proof of what I was told have since been lost and only my aunt can
remember the surname
The hall I believe is in ruins or was, I
think he married a hobson from grenoside
hoping you can help
regards lilian hitchmough in australia
email address is
lhitchmo@bigpond.net.au
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| 21/03/2009 |
My name is Mark Fox and I believe I have
ancestors who lived in Chapel-en-le-Frith, notably Adam Fox.
I would be extremely grateful if you could
provide or point me in the right direction of any information in
relation to Adam Fox and his family,
Kind regards, Mark Fox
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| 8/04/2009 |
Does anyone know anything about the history
of the Potter family of Cockyard? I believe that at one stage they used
to keep the Hanging Gate and then moved to a property in Cockyard,
called Link House,. This I believe was once used for animals underneath
and a Sunday School above. I know that they were related to the Barratt
family in Chapel who are and were farmers. thank you Pauline Nicks
email: pauline.nicks@ntlworld.com |
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| 14/05/2009 | Hello all, Looking for details of the deceased Jeanie Armit Nelson who lived at Keston,Manchester Rd Chapel en le Frith in 1929.She married Clement Harcourt Vernon on 27-2-1929 and had daughter Rosemary Jean in Sept that year. There was also another daughter born ????1938,called Olivia but we think Jeanie died in childbirth.At around this time Rosemary was adopted and went to live in Hampshire with her fathers sisters, Olivia and Ruth Vernon. Not sure if baby Olivia died or was adopted? Was Jeanie and her baby buried in a churchyard in this area and what date? Anyone with any information on this please do get in contact. Many Thanks Susan Travers -Rosemarys daughter. email: susantravers29@live.co.uk
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| 10/06/2009 |
Dear Cllr Martin - Firstly, let me
congratulate you on your excellent website!
Secondly, any information that your readers may have on the Tymm family would be much appreciated. The only information I can give is: George Tymm married (?) Harper June 1914 and children Stella May Cecile (born 1922) & Bernice. The marriage and both births are registered as happening in Chapel. Also there are various other Tymms going back to 1700s living in or near Chapel. Many thanks Phillip Greenan
.email:
phillip.greenan@btinternet.com
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| 23/06/2009 | I am looking for Heathcotes of CELF in
Derbyshire. I am descended from George Heathcote shoemaker and farmer==born 2 May 1784 CELF who died in Taxal Cheshire 4 May 1867. I have his will listing all of his children etc. He married Mary Barnes in 1802. She was born 25 Apr 1782 in CELF and died in Taxal, Cheshire. George was the son of Edward Heathcote and Elizabeth Lowe. Mary Barnes is daughter of William Barnes 7 Jul 1734 CELF and Ann Oliver 1734 Chinley Independent. Any information of Heathcote, Barnes, Lowe and Oliver is appreciated. Contact gayleholman@comcast.net |
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| 15/07/2009 |
Hi- I am researching the Oliver family and have
found many of them living in Chapel en le Frith - I've gone back as
far as Joseph Oliver, 1720, who married Constance Wright, and their
son Joseph, who had a son Samuel, all of Chapel en le Frith. Any
information available would be greatly appreciated. Sally Shires,
Strongsville, Ohio, USA
Duckpie8@yahoo.com Thank you
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| 26/07/2009 |
Cllr.Guy Martin
Referring to your Family History Message
Board, I note there is a reference to Bank House, which apparently was
owned
by the Renshaws in 1894. My Grandmother was
Sarah Elizabeth Renshaw, born in 1871. The family resided in the
Yorkshire
Derbyshire area. The Renshaws at Bank House
could be related, but I know very little about the Renshaws before my
Grandmother,
as she died when my Mother, her daughter was
three years old.
I should be grateful if you have any
information.
Regards
Maxine Y Hunt Email :
myhhenniker@talktalk.net
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| 1/08/2009 |
I am trying to trace Thomas Carrington who
was born in1756
My father always told me his ancesters came
from Chapel En Le Frith.
He went on to marry Jane Ardern and they
kept the Bulls Head Inn Higher Disley until 1804
Many of the Carrington family lived in
Disley and some still do.
If anyone can put any light on this question
I would be delighted.
Also there son married Margaret Cooper from
Kettleshulme born 1790 I can't find her parent either
Dorothy Self.
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| 09/08/2009 |
Greetings:
From information I have recently found it would appear that my
grandfather, Ralph Ernest Longden, died in Chapel-En-le-Frith in 1973 at
the age of 91. The last time I saw him was in 1947, he had returned to
the UK after many years in Bombay, India, he worked there as a flour
mill manager. I have no other information about his final years
If anyone can tell me anything about him, in Chapel, it would be much
appreciated.
My e-mail address is
twocords@look.ca
Thank you.
Art Cordingley
Mississauga
Ontario.
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| 16/08/2009 |
I'm currently researching the Renshaw family, and I have links back to
Chapel-en-le-Frith, and believe that Henry Constantine Renshaw (who
married Lucy Broadhurst) lived in Bank Hall. Can you confirm this? Is
there any other information you can supply? Did they purchase the Hall,
or was it a family property?
Thanks,
Emily Reed
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| 24/08/2009 | Mr Martin, I'm looking for information regarding John Dean (b circa 1783) who married Elizabeth Clayton (b 1782) on 23 October 1810 at St Thomas, Chapel en le Frith. In the 1841 census they were living at what looks like Eaves with their three children John Dean (b circa 1819), Sarah Dean (b circa 1824) and William Dean (b circa 1827). I haven't been able to find anything further online with the exception of John junior who I have found in the 1851 census at Burfields, Bradshaw Edge with his wife Ann (b circa 1821 in Wales) and their children Sarah Ann Dean (b circa 1842), Edward Dean (b circa 1845) and Jane Dean (b circa 1848). I believe Ann died shortly after the census as I found a BMD record for CELF in the 2nd quarter of 1851. By the 1856, at the latest, John junior was living in Pendleton, Lancashire. I would be greatful for any information or research pointers as thus far most of what I have has been of the internet. Thanks in advance Jude Cosh (Manchester) - jude.cosh@gmail.com |
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| 4/09/2009 |
I am trying to locate further information regarding Peter Mellor, born 1812 in Chapel en le Frith and his wife Mary nee Ford(e), also born in Chapel in 1819, particularly their baptisms and any information regarding their parents. I believe Peter’s parents were William and Mary Mellor. I think Peter was christened on or around 3 May 1812.
Census records show they were resident in Gnat Hole outside Chapel en le frith both before and after their marriage in Glossop in 1837. Peter died 1879 and Mary in 1884. They had 11 children including my great grandfather George Henry (born gnat hole, 1860). His youngest son, Alfred Bernard, born 1901 in Manchester, emigrated to Australia in the 1920s. Any information on
Peter & Mary and their antecedents in particular would be very much
appreciated. Regards Kym Mellor ************************************************************************************************** |
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| 17/09/2009 | Hello Mr Guy. I hope you can help. I am
researching my maternal family tree and the name Wilson. I have the 1851 census for Banwell, Somerset and the information recorded on the census for my GGGG grandfather John Wilson states that he was born in Chapel En Le Frith circa 1777. The earliest record I have of him is 1813 and parish records show a baptism for his first born at St Matthew's Church, Wookey, Somerset. John Wilson's occupation was papermaker and I know there was a paper mill at Chapel, would you have any records of Wilsons working in the papermill or information on John Wilson? Is there a baptism for him at Chapel? If you do have any information on the family that you could forward to me this would be greatly appreciated. You have a wonderful site here and it is obvious a lot of hard work has gone into it. Hope you can help. Thanking you in anticipation. Ken Williams kenandjulie@blueyonder.co.uk |
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| 5/10/2009 | I am interested in the Holland family who were
resident at Peaslow farm 1901 - 1911 that I know of, and formerly of Earl Sterndale. The sons appear on the WW1 war memorial but That's as much as I know. They are related to me via my grandmother who was a Holland. The Peaslow family are of my G/Grandfather's 3rd wife Ellen. Anne Willcox email: A.Willcox@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| 6/11/2009 |
Hello,
I am looking for information about John Mortin born around 1810 in
Chapel who married Hannah Garside in Glossop in 1832. They moved to
Hayfield/Ollerset and had 7 children and eventually died there. I think
his parents were Robert and Nancy Morten both from Chapel born in the
1780's but confirmation required if possible please.
Thank You,
Barry Mortin
e-mail:
bmortin9@hotmail.com
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| 7/11/2009 | Sir, After years of believing that William MILLWARD married a Caroline DERWENT of Roich Malcalf I now find that the name was DARWENT. They farmed the area at least from 1841- 1891 and I would like to know more about them if anyone has information please. I also suspect that Thomas DARWENT ran a Bell and Company pub in the area. Eric MILLWARD. bbruckshaw1@tiscali.co.uk remove the first "b" |
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| 9/12/2009 |
My maternal great grandparents came from Chapel-en-le-Frith, and there's
a long line stretching back from them into the Middle Ages, all with
Chapel connections. My grandmother was a Walton, and her father was
Arthur Walton, born in Chapel in 1858. Although he moved to Hull, the
rest of his family remained in Derbyshire, and I believe there are still
some descendents in the town. I'd be very pleased to make contact with
any of them, but am especially interested in solving the riddle of
Alfred Barker.
Alfred married my Great Great Grandfather John Walton's older sister,
Sarah, in about 1860. In mysterious circumstances (as far as I'm
concerned!) Alfred died at the age of just 43 in 1867. He was a
stonemason by trade, which can be dangerous enough in itself, but my
grandmother once told me that he'd been killed at "a meeting" in
Chapel-en-le-Frith. Is there any account of this?
Evidently, Alfred's untimely death had a deep effect on the family.
Sarah never remarried, and lived for another thirty years as a
houseguest with one or other of her relations, typically with her
brother John in the Dog Inn, where he was keeper, or her younger brother
William, who owned Walton House. I believe it still exists? Four years
after Alfred died, John's wife Mary gave birth to a son (their fourth)
and they named him Alfred Barker Walton. In 1897, thirty years after the
incident (and just before Sarah died) Hannah Maria, wife to John's
eldest son, my Great Grandfather Arthur Walton, bore her third son. He
too was christened Alfred Barker, and would subsequently die in the
trenches in 1918.
If anyone can shed more light on this I'd be very grateful. I am also
trying to find out more about my "Uncle" Eric. He was Eric William
Walton Young, only child (I believe) of Margaret Ruth Walton, my Great
Grandfather's youngest sister. She married a Mr Young (don't have first
name) in around 1905, and Eric was born in 1909. He lived all his life
in Chapel, and died in 1989. He was a regular feature in my childhood,
possibly because he never married and had no children of his own.
Thanks very much for your help. My email is
marcus@cmcgraphics.co.uk
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| 16/12/2009 |
Charles FLINTHAM (1874-1926) is my uncle by his marriage to my maternal aunt Lucy Frances Brown [Bellamy] (1876-1931) in 1900. They had at least 8 children (5 boys, 3 girls) including Sydney (1902-), Frank (1904-), Stanley (1907-), Rose (1912-), and Arthur (1913-). Their births were registered in Chapel en le Firth District, Derbyshire.
The other three children may have been Eliz Ann and Eric (1906-) and Violet (1910-). These three were also registered in Chapel en le Firth, but I have not been able to verify that they are Charles and Lucy’s children as Charles had a brother and his family living in Chapel en le Firth
I would very much like to learn more about any of Charles and Lucy's descendants, and hopefully make contact with those who are living.
Thanks for your assistance
Thomas Sawtell, Canada |
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| 27/12/2009 | I am desperately trying to find ancestors connected to Thomas Hall born in Chapel 1801, christened 24 Jan 1802 son of Thomas, Forgeman. Thomas (the son) later moved to Staffordshire where he married but there are a huge amount of Halls and I am struggling to find if they are connected. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if anyone can recommend books of the area (including Castleton) covering 1700s to 1860s that also would be appreciated. Here's hoping, many thanks Marilyn - | |
| 18/01/2010 | Hi Martin, Thank you for supplying a place for us family researchers to place our queries. I am looking for any Warhurst family contacts from Chapel En Le Frith. We have early records of the birth of Edward and Richard Warhurst from the 1600 s Any family information will be well received. Thanks, Jenny Sandercock South Australia email: grahams38@optusnet.com.au |
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| 22/01/2010 | I am looking for Charles Hector Smith. Worked
for Ferodo. 1940s. Lived Church Brow then Park Rd? Am researching family
history and only know that he was born in Wales. Does anyone have any
info. Thanks. alwyncroke@live.com |
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| 24/03/2010 |
I am hoping that you can
help me discover the name of my Great Great Great Grandad. My Great Great
Grandad was called Joseph Edwin Ford and he was born in Chapel en le Frith
on 14th June, 1860. From the 1861 Census it appears his mother
was called Martha but there is no mention of a father. Joseph moved away
from Chapel en Le Frith to go to Bury,
Any information would be
greatly appreciated. I currently live in
Yours sincerely,
Lisa Ford |
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| 28/03/2010 |
Firstly - what a wonderful website. Thankyou.
I am trying to find out what I can about a
Mr and Mrs MOORE who were resident at Chenley Manse, Chapel en le Frith
around 1795.
We have found a lovely damask collar and
cloth amongst my mother's things, and the only hit to it's origins is a
note that they were "given to Granny MOORE. Grandpa MOORE was the
minister of the little independant chapel". 1795
I would love to know any details, either of
descendants of the MOORE's - even just possible descendant surnames.
Also, where would Chenley Manse have been
situated in the parish.
Any help most appreciated.
Robyn Woller
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| 26/05/2010 | Hi Martin, I'm trying to find any information on Richard White born abt 1817 in Chapel En Le Frith.I think he married an Eliza E. ? but know nothing of his parents. Many thanks Mark Blackmore skinnymark@gmail.com |
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| 26/05/2010 |
Hi
My mother Shirley Carrington nee Garlick
died on September 15th 2009.Her father Harry Ogle Garlick born 1905/6
died in 1939 in a quarry accident somewhere in the Peak.He is buried
in Peak Forest church yard.Mother was going to do some research but
sadly died before she had the opportunity.
I am going to continue her quest and see
if I can uncover anything about his life.Mother never really knew him
because she was too young.
We also know he emigrated to Canada on the
Ausonia but returned when there was a fire on the family farm.He
married Violet Fox and had my mother and her brother Duncan Garlick
with whom we have lost touch.
I now live in Cambridge so distance is a
problem.I would love to gain some information.
Regards.
Dawn Young(Carrington)
dawn.young23@yahoo.co.uk
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| 3/06/2010 |
Dear Mr Martin
Thank you for bearing with me on a warm and sunny evening.
My full name is Richard Peter Fitzgeorge-Parker and I reside at
Greatworth, Northamptonshire, Tel: 01295-711442
My Grandmother Helen A Fitzgeorge-Parker resided at 'Breck Meadow'
between 1910 and 1920, She is listed as Head of household in the census
of 1911. My late father was the youngest of her offspring.
I am trying to establish whether she was the owner of the property which
I know to have been privately constructed, and, if so, from whom the
land was purchased and by whom. After consulting the ordnance survey
maps of the area it would seem probably that the house was built in the
early years of the last century, but I cannot be certain.
If any light can be thrown upon any of the above question I shall be
most grateful.
The precise address according to the High Peak Council is: Breck Meadow
- Wash - Nr,Chapel-en-le-Frith
We did look on the web of the Parish Council, very impressive and
helpful.
Yours sincerely - Richard P.Fitzgeorge-Parker
email : Ronkapop@aol.com If anyone can give some information could you send copy email to me at martinguy@aol.com |
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| 10/06/2010 |
Hi Guy
I've contacted you before ( as below) regarding a relative named Thomas
Quirk, we've unraveled this mystery & found he was Exhumed & re-buried
buried in Stockport so thanks for your help with your input.
I now have a further request if posssible, On Thomas Quirks birth
certificate it refers to him living at "New houses, Hayfield road ,
Chapel-en-le-frith around 1920-1922 , I have been unable to locate where
this address actually is , I have had some information from a High peak
borough council ( Lisa Smart) suggesting a possible link with "new house
farm , the wash , but I'm not too sure myself, also lisa says numbers
17, 19, 23 to 29 and 48 and 50 Hayfield Road could be possibilities.
Would you have any kind of information which might shed some light on
where this address may be.
Many thanks
Steve
email: stevekay20@yahoo.co.uk |
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