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The goal of the Derbyshire Team is to make all Derbyshire profiles the best that they can be. It is our desire to leave a lasting legacy of work for future generations and current researchers that can facilitate their quest for family history, and bring them one step closer to discovering the myriad of people it has taken for them to draw breath.
Team Members and Specific Interests
- Team Leader: Stephen Heathcote | Place categories and Suggestions list
- Lizzie Griffiths |
- Simon Daniell | One Place Study for Eyam, and profiles of Notable people for the surrounding area
- Dave Welburn | Unconnected profiles
- Jean Brooks |
- Jules Bondy |
- Martin Swain |
- Susan Jackson |
Derbyshire Maintenance Categories
Derbyshire profiles needing further research are listed in the following links. Please feel free to investigate and improve them!
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Derbyshire World Firsts
A list of some of the things in which Derbyshire people and places led the world created by Simon Daniell is here: Derbyshire World & UK Firsts.
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I am a new member of the Derbyshire team, although I must confess to having dabbled with sourcing some of the Derbyshire profiles before I became "official"!
I was born in the maternity home in Heanor Derbyshire although we lived just across the border in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. I have lived in Maryland, USA for the past 34 years.
Most of my relatives were involved in mining or brick making. A few were from Killamarsh, a couple of others died and were buried in Calow. Most of the others were from the Heanor, Ilkeston and Shipley areas of Derbyshire.
I am looking forward to being part of the Derbyshire team and look forward to working with you all :)
Susan
As a new member to the Derbyshire team I’d like to outline my interest in Derbyshire. I was born and bred in Eastbourne Sussex and have now lived in Germany for over fifty years, currently in Lubeck. Although my father was born in Sheffield his parents both came from Derbyshire. I have now traced the Swain line back to Samuel Swain born about 1670 in Shirland Derbyshire. Many of the Swain’s were miners in the Tibshelf, Pilsley and North Wingfield area. My next project is my Ward line. So far I can follow it back to Joshua Ward who was born in Matlock in 1756 and buried together with his wife Docey near the south door of St Lawrence North Wingfield. I see I’m not the only one who has taken photos there. And then there are side-lines that include Bamford, Bower, Hopkinson, Webster and Wharton, to name but a few. Following a recent contact with several Americans from Maryland with Swain forebears - we apparently share DNA - I am also on the lookout for Swains who might have emigrated before 1750. Never a dull moment. Greetings Martin
I also have lot of family from North Wingfield, including distant Hopkinson. I am compiling burials there and have photos from 2017 I still need to upload. I live in Sydney, Australia. Contact me if you want more something specific. My main information is on Ancestry (before I found Wikitree) but I have complied most of my ancestors (except really early ones) on Wikitree.
Thanks for your message.
You mentioned that you have been compiling burials and photos from North Wingfield. That's very interesting as I was at St Lawrence churchyard taking photos of the gravestones in 2018. I took 77 photos and I have created an album on Google photos. Let me know if you want access and I will arrange. This offer is also for all other members of the Derbyshire team.
Access will allow you to view as well as download if you want. I am not sure but you may need a Google email addess.
Warm regards, Jules
I am a new member to the Derbyshire team and Stephen asked if I could introduce myself and my interests.
My preferred name is Jules but my birth certificate says Julian. I was born in Ashover and migrated as a small child with my parents to USA and then later still migrated to Australia where I am now. I've been an active family history researcher since I was a teenager long ago.
I have been very focussed on trying to connect the Ashover branch of the Beresford family with the other branches, particularly with Alstonfield. In particular I have hit a hurdle with Godfrey Beresford (about 1649-1731). At times I feel tantalisingly close only for the evidence to end up being inadequate. Most recently I have been using DNA from across several families to see if I can advance the research this way. Close but no cigar (yet).
I am also very interested in the Hodgkinsons, Hopkinsons, Clays of Derbyshire.
A few years ago I had a breakthrough with the Brocksopp family of Ault Hucknall. A couple of John Brocksopp's (1752-1839) children migrated to Buenos Aires and it was fun chasing down this far flug branch (relatively speaking and with irony as I am in Victoria Australia) and seeing how they slowly dropped their English names / CoE traditions) and became South American (although there was some reverse migration too).
Other previous research has included the Walters of Pentrich (and of the Pentrich Revolution) but I think I have tapped this one out now.
I seem to have an inordinate amount of relatives from Denby and North Wingfield so I am also interested in these locations.
My primary tree is on Ancestry. I also subscribe to Findmypast and MyHeritage and regularly use other sites like FamilySearch, Geni, and Family Tree DNA and GedMatch.
Warm regards, Jules