John Ellis & Mary Horsfall – marriage transcript
The record of the marriage of John Ellis and Mary Horsfall, Gildersome Friends Meeting House, 1774.
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Industrial Action
Court record of the trial of Thomas Spooner and many others involved in a picket and demonstration at the cutlery grinding works of Samuel Walker in Sheffield.
In the thick of it …
Dirty politics in the 1807 election: why our ancestors didn’t vote for William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner and well-known Dissenter.
Benjamin Berry
The Trial of Benjamin Berry: or how we became established in Australia: a revered ancestor making the journey with the Second Fleet.
Teenage Pregnancy
Single mothers in our family tree going back to 1707: not a new problem after all! Read how they coped in very different times.
Gladys Crickmore
Mother of Ruth and daughter of Tommy and Flo Crickmore
Born Gladys Crickmore on 15 March 1913 in Bradford, Yorkshire
Married Stephen Johnson on 11 July 1942
Died 11 April 2005 and buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
John Leachman VI
Father of my grandmother Lily and son of Phoebe Leachman
Baptised on 7 December 1867 at Stow in Lindsey, Lincolnshire
Married Mary Ann Fenton in summer 1886
Died in September 1932 in Chesterfield
Mary Ann Fenton
Mother of Lily and daughter of Jane and Barnabas Fenton
Baptised Mary Ann Fenton on 14 November 1869 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Married John Leachman VI in 1886
Died early in 1918
Catherine Brickley
Mother of Thomas Jarvis and daughter of David and Ellen Brickley
Born Catherine Brickley in late 1852 in Bradford, Yorkshire
Married Harry Crickmore in early 1877
Died December 1929
Harry Crickmore
Father of Thomas Jarvis and son of Henry and Eliza Crickmore
Born in 1852, baptised Harry Crickmore on 12 February 1854 in Kirby Cane, Norfolk (at the same time as his newborn brother Jarvis.)
Married Catherine Brickley in early 1877
Died in mid-1889 before the birth of his son Thomas Jarvis in the December of that year.