What's in your past?

[Bellatrix]

11 hours ago, lovelace said:

Looks like Brightholmlee,     I've heard of it but don't know where it is.

 

8 hours ago, Longcol said:

 

Near Wharncliffe Side . Coming from Sheffield on the road from Middlewood to Stocksbrige, turn left in Wharncliffe Side just before the Blue Ball pub and it's less than a mile up the hill.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightholmlee

Brilliant!  Thank you, both.  I'd never heard of the place.

[Bellatrix]

9 hours ago, sadbrewer said:

you just get the image to view for a limited period.

You can download the image, of course, either using the button on the page where the image is initially displayed, or by doing the usual right click > save image as.

[Bellatrix]

Another one:

 

 

It's a profession.  Something maker?  The context so far is cutlery, though not necessarily so here.  It's from a baptism certificate from 1838.

[lovelace]

Not easy but looks like  Spoonmaker.        

[Bellatrix]

51 minutes ago, lovelace said:

Not easy but looks like  Spoonmaker.        

That is superb.  Thank you!  I'm always thrown by the tendency to have letters like p and o 'open' rather than fully formed.

[lovelace]

The handwriting is so loose & scrawly,  they should have been made to write in capitals.     Gives me something to do though.

[Slighty batty]

I expect most of you are already using the Sheffield Indexers site, also FreeReg, Family Search and Free BMD.

Some other free to view sites are:

 

https://www.dhi.ac.uk/causepapers/search.jsp

This is a database of cases heard in the diocesian courts of York from the middle ages to the mid Victorian era.  Includes validity of wills, slander cases, pew disputes etc. 

 

https://www.chatsworth.org/visit-chatsworth/chatsworth-estate/art-archives/access-the-collection/archives-and-library/historic-servants-and-staff/

Database of people who worked on the Chatsworth estate

 

http://wirksworth.org.uk/

The crime section (1784-1891) is interesting because the petty sessions and quarter sessions records sometimes include people from Sheffield who were charged with crimes in Derbyshire (eg poaching.) Note that like the Sheffield Indexers site it's http:/ and not https:/ 

 

https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~spire/Yesterday/InformationPages.htm

Another one for those with Derbyshire roots. This site has extracts of settlement examinations and certificates, removal orders, apprenticeships, bastardy papers etc.

 

https://willsdb.gukutils.org.uk/DBY/index.html

Extracts of Derbyshire wills

 

Does anyone have any more?

 

 

 

[lovelace]

Only  CuriousFox but it's a contact thing,   not records & facts.      I've had some helpful answers from it & helped others.       If I see an interesting query on it or one that looks easy to solve,  I give it a go.        

[DUFFEMS]

I started my family history after my father died in 1992, I hadn't seen him for years as my parents were divorced. I knew he'd been "adopted" but, I knew nothing about my paternal family until I found an old black and white photo in his belongings, it was of a woman, written in pencil on the back was, "this is your mother Ethel Goodison" so my quest began.

Many years and archive searches later before Ancestry took off I found the evidence that my father had been born to a WW1 widow called Ethel Wildgoose so my research was called "The Wildgoose Chase".

Ethel had 3 children to her husband Walter Wildgoose before he was killed in WW1.  She had a child to a married man some years later in 1923, she died just 5 weeks after this birth.

Her 3 Wildgoose children were taken in by their relatives and my father, being illegitimate, wasn't so his natural father took him to the Sheffield Union Workhouse, I found out years later that he'd also taken his other sons to the workhouse.

An elderly couple called Thomas and Elizabeth Greatbatch took my father from the workhouse, had him Baptised at Nether Green Church in their own name, they lived in Ranmoor Terrace.

I've never found the connection between my father's natural father John Henry Eaton and his "adopted" father Thomas Greatbatch unless they were in the same army regiment inWW1.

Now I know the surname of my paternal family though I've never met any of them so, if you're related to John Henry Eaton born 1880'ish in Sheffield then I'd like to hear from you.

Family history research is addictive and rewarding, we humans need to know "where we're from"

From this adventure I researched my maternal side and found my 3x great grandfather had been transported to Australia in 1834 for stealing cloth and handkerchiefs leaving behind a young wife with 2 children in Sheffield, I'm descended from the son left in Sheffield.

Regards,

Duffems

 

[sadbrewer]

8 hours ago, DUFFEMS said:

I started my family history after my father died in 1992, I hadn't seen him for years as my parents were divorced. I knew he'd been "adopted" but, I knew nothing about my paternal family until I found an old black and white photo in his belongings, it was of a woman, written in pencil on the back was, "this is your mother Ethel Goodison" so my quest began.

Many years and archive searches later before Ancestry took off I found the evidence that my father had been born to a WW1 widow called Ethel Wildgoose so my research was called "The Wildgoose Chase".

Ethel had 3 children to her husband Walter Wildgoose before he was killed in WW1.  She had a child to a married man some years later in 1923, she died just 5 weeks after this birth.

Her 3 Wildgoose children were taken in by their relatives and my father, being illegitimate, wasn't so his natural father took him to the Sheffield Union Workhouse, I found out years later that he'd also taken his other sons to the workhouse.

An elderly couple called Thomas and Elizabeth Greatbatch took my father from the workhouse, had him Baptised at Nether Green Church in their own name, they lived in Ranmoor Terrace.

I've never found the connection between my father's natural father John Henry Eaton and his "adopted" father Thomas Greatbatch unless they were in the same army regiment inWW1.

Now I know the surname of my paternal family though I've never met any of them so, if you're related to John Henry Eaton born 1880'ish in Sheffield then I'd like to hear from you.

Family history research is addictive and rewarding, we humans need to know "where we're from"

From this adventure I researched my maternal side and found my 3x great grandfather had been transported to Australia in 1834 for stealing cloth and handkerchiefs leaving behind a young wife with 2 children in Sheffield, I'm descended from the son left in Sheffield.

Regards,

Duffems

 

 

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