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Names being researched The group receives lots of e-mails
from interested individuals who are each researching names from Whitwells past.
Much of this research overlaps and I regularly get requests to put people in
touch who have a common interest. I intend to put the researchers name and
the names they are researching. I will only put e-mail addresses if the
person has specifically requested me to. If you would like to make contact with a fellow researcher,
send your request to me and I will pass it on.
Pete
| Researcher |
Name(s) researching |
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Tom Shead |
My ancestors
the Sheads lived in Whitwell from the 17th century and during the 19th
century moved to pastures new after 1879. William Henry Shead b.1845 at
Cresswell married Betsy Candlin of Whitwell in 1869 and was aTailor at
the Vaults Hotel in Whitwell upto 1880 and emigrated to Manitoba,
Canada. I have a newspaper cutting from a Canadian Newspaper dated 1880
stating that William Henry Shead and a Thomas Jackson were visiting
Manitoba with the idea of purchasing land in Canada and taking 30
Whitwell families to form a Derbyshire Community. The Duke died in 1879
and two thirds of the workforce were laid off the building projects and
two of William's brothers went to Australia and William went to Canada
followed by his sisters family in 1903 to Canada.
My enquiry is
are there any of Thomas Jacksons descendants still living in the
Whitwell Area or any descendants of Whitwell families whose ancestors
went to form this Derbyshire Community in 1880?
Did the 30
Whitwell families actually go to form this community?
I am in touch
with the Great Grandson of William Henry Shead and his cousin and have
visited them in British Columbia and they are intending to visit
Derbyshire later this year. |
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Val Warne |
I have just been reading through your
very interesting site as I am researching the Yaw family and thought one
branch, at least, had moved many years ago to your area.
Having seen the page giving a tribute to Les Yaw I know I am looking in
the right direction. I also think Muriel Yaw in Hodthorpe may belong to
the same family.
I am Jane Yaw's granddaughter amd together with a Garry Yaw from
another branch, we have put together an extensive list of Yaw ancestors
and descendants (over 200 at the last count)
If there are any Yaws in your society, or you know of any who would be
interested (George and Sarah Yaw being the common ancestors for us all)
please give them my email address and I would love to be in contact and
add them in.
I have loads of information that I am more than willing to share with
anyone |
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Richard Morgan |
Ernest Goucher and Ralph Miller |
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Joan Dunstan |
Hannah Otter (nee Stubbings) born in the
1870s in Whitwell |
| Susan & Idwal Evans |
Botham and Higgins |
| Keith McClellan |
Presley, Hardwick, Kitts, and Busby. |
| Peter Machin |
Brain and Machin Family |
| Stuart Richardson |
Carol Harrop |
| Jim Wright |
Burley Higgins |
| Beryl Pearce |
Marshall |
| Robert Stennett |
David Dawson |
| Brian Edge |
Edge, Pattison, Rollett/Rollitt, Colton |
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Joanna Holland |
Hill, Stubbings and Rogers |
| Margaret
Mantaj |
Bartholamew |
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Jackie (Taylor) Owen
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Keith Taylor |
| Paul Bell |
Bell |
| Pete Hopkins |
Allison and Newton |
| John Hornby |
Streets |
| Ngaretta Sribar |
Candlin |
| Elizabeth McLennan |
Goacher |
| Vicki
Connors |
John Richard Edwards, Edwards |
| Roger Stubbings |
Stubbings |
| Marion
Burt |
Radford family |
| Sally Challinor |
Bromhead |
| Gillian Cutting |
Rotherham |
| Mike Clifford |
Hind |
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