| Dec 2003 |
New Pages:
- Images.
I'm very grateful to Ray Ash for photographs from an Edwardian
album that his family own and for his help with five new pages
for this website.
They are:
Board School
Pupils, ca, 1898 Matlock Board School, Ist Class Boys photographed
outside their newly built school on Chesterfield Road with the
headmaster, Edwin Davis.
Garden Party
at Matlock Rectory Edwardian parishioners attending a summer
garden party.
Canon Kewley &
His Sisters The Rector of Matlock and two of his sisters,
with biographical notes.
Mrs. Robert
Wildgoose, with biographical notes about both Mrs. Wildgoose
and her husband.
Mrs. Wildgoose's
Servants Five photographs of Mrs. Wildgoose's female employees,
with names |
Additions to:
- Wolley Manuscripts,
Matlock See Vol. 6683. Four new surnames and 8 additional
places
- Rockside,
the Former Hydro - the latest announcements
- Strays: two men
called James (Crouch & Pearson) |
Links added:
- Pre 1858 Wills
Index Link to GENUKI abstract for TRICKETT
- References - Books
and Other Publications Peter Naylor's new book and link
to GENUKI review |
| Nov 2003 |
New Page:
- Pedigree of
Nightingale Ancestors of the Lady With the Lamp |
Additions to:
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 a few additions from 1841
- Strays: 3 girls
called Minnie and BRITLAND in 1901 |
| Oct 2003 |
New Page:
- 1891 Census : enumeration district details are now on site and the page
links to online transcripts of Matlock, Matlock Bath and District
- 1901 Census of
Matlock & Matlock Bath : enumeration districts details
and sample of one enumeration district with 514 names |
Additions to:
- FAQs New sections on
Fealty and obligations to the lord/king, Mills, Property (messuage,
croft, hovel, etc)
Also a few basic Latin words that crop up in research have been
added
- Images Souvenir
booklet of Matlock Bath, about 1898. The cover was online in
March, but the rest of the little Boots booklet is now available
for viewing and covers quite a large area around Matlock. Also
featured are places like Lea Hurst, Dovedale and Wingfield manor.
Plus from "The High Peak to Sherwood, The hills and
dales of old Mercia" are images of St. John's and Riber
Hall
- News: read about BEECH
CAVENDISH DAVIES (this last was "The Dartmoor Shepherd")
- Strays: found in
the 1901 census whilst searching for the christian name Selina:
GREATOREX IRELAND MORTON SIMISTER. Also NIGHTINGALE
- References - Books
and Other Publications Ivor Neal has kindly provided an
image of their CD of Matlock PRs
- Wills Calendar
: Pre 1858 has 4 new names MADDER TEMPLE WILD WOLLEYE
- Wolley Manuscripts,
Matlock Now includes notes relative to Snitterton in more
detail (see 6673 ff.38-45d) Some additions to 6670 ff.202-3,
6666 ff.147-9, 6666 ff.150-2, 6681 ff.136d, 6675 ff.209-217.
Also now includes all the Wensley deeds in Volume 6669. You'll find a
document about murder, imprisonment (including in France) as
well as exchanges of land. There are 72 additional surnames
in this section and 34 places which have been added to the indexes.
Links on all pages in this section to the new onsite Wolley
Manuscripts Derbyshire. Also see The
Andrews Pages Whats New for more information |
| Sep 2003 |
Changes uploaded in October (see above),
because of additions to the whole site, so nothing new listed
for September |
| Aug 2003 |
Additions to:
- Strays: 10 found
in the 1891 census by Rosemary Lockie. Surnames BATEMAN BERRESFORD
BUNTING DALE HARRISON RADFORD and one WRAGG found by webmistress
in 1901
- Wills Calendar
: Pre 1858 has probate details for 5 new names : ADAM(S),
DEBANKE (from Rob), FOX (5 from Lorraine), READE, TEMPLE, WALKER
(alias WOODDIS) and I've added the Probate Details for Sir Richard
Arkwright to Arkwright's
Cotton Mill |
Link added:
- To the new URL for Kelly's
Derbyshire Directory, 1891 which includes many villages
near Matlock and Matlock Bath
-To Villages Online on Matlock & Matlock Bath index page |
| July 2003 |
Additions to:
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 a few additions from 1839
- Eighteenth
Century Lists : Licences for badgers, drovers, hucksters
and swailers |
Ongoing maintenance:
One user suggested that I should add a link back to the very
beginning of the website (i.e. the start of "The Andrews
Pages" as opposed to the Matlock and Matlock Bath site)
at the top of each page. So you will see I have now added the
Andrews Pages Logo and link to the top left corner, alongside
all the links at the top related to the Matlock section. As
many readers know, there is already a link back to "The
Andrews Pages" at the bottom of every page, in the footer.
Colour has been added to the top navigation bar so the links
stand out a little more. |
Link added:
- References, internet
info : 1868 gazetteer entry for Matlock, one of many for
the whole UK, a result of Colin Hinson's OCR of the National
Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868 |
| June 2003 |
New Page:
"There
Was Red Tape at Smedley's Hydro Then" This third
article by Roy Christian is about John Smedley and his hydro
on the Bank. It was published in the "Derby Evening Telegraph"
on 3 January 1951 and was written before Derbyshire County Council
bought Matlock's largest hydro for conversion to use as the
county's centre of administration. |
Additions to:
- Nineteenth Century Lists : Magistrates and Police in 1881.
Both moved to Keeping
Law and Order, see Jan 2008
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 four extras or additional info in 1841
- Strays: 166 Darley
Dale Marriages contributed by Tony Millward and extracted from
the CD-ROM of Darley Dale Parish Records 1541-1867 transcribed
and published by Ivor
& Val Neal and reproduced here with their kind permission.
More to come. All with a little help from Kathryn. Also 17 of
Mike Spencer's selection from Youlgreave, Moneyash and Darley
(bap and bur)
- Wills: a few
missing names - BARTON, SMITH, TAYLOR, WALTON. 14 in total |
| May 2003 |
Additions to:
- Strays: WARRINER,
WRAGG and MELLOR found in Leek & Lowe STS 1851 by Jean Durbin
(thanks to Jean) and 20 found in the London in 1881 (Surnames
M, S and W)
- Wills Calendar
: Pre 1858 has 5 new names - DALLEYHEIES, ROSON OR ROSONNE,
CHAPPELL, LEACROFT, SCOTT |
| April 2003 |
New Pages:
- "The Varied
Fortunes of a Derbyshire Spa" first appeared in
"Country Life" on August 15, 1963. It is another lively
and stimulating article about the Matlocks by Roy
Christian and reproduced here with his very kind permission.
This time it is complemented by the lovely photographs of Frank
Rodgers |
Additions to:
- Strays: BODEN -
a CWGC commemoration, BAGSHAW found in Leek & Lowe STS in
1851 and 28 others found in the West Country in 1881
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 Seven more names, with Kathryn's help |
Link added:
- Funeral Garland
in Matlock Church to Rosemary Lockie's new images of the
Crantz at Ashford Church
- Images English
Heritage's Images - they've placed over 20,000 online
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 to Mike Spencer's list for the whole of Derbyshire |
| Mar 2003 |
New Pages:
- 1851 census EDs 7c - 7g have been added to finally complete this. There
are now links from each person's reference in the Surnames Indexes.
You can navigate directly to the census page each person is
on.
- Contributors &
Acknowledgements I'm in the process of changing the email
links on some pages that I've been given, such as 'Strays',
and just having them all in the one place to avoid duplication.
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 The board dealt with people in need
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Manorial Records, Extracts from 1851 A sample
of what is available at the DRO |
Additions to:
- Biographies :
now includes watercolour artist Louise RAYNER, whom I found
by accident when looking at the 1901 census for something entirely
different
- Census : Changes and improvements to the Surnames Indexes
for the 1871 census The last to be done, there are now links from each person's
reference in the Surnames Indexes. You can navigate directly
to the census page each person is on.
- Strays: CUMMING
RAYNER STATHAM TYACK (given as LYACK in 1901!) and 333 others.
In November I added all Johns over the age of 18 and now include
all Johns as well as all Marys. See the totals on Did
you know ...? Also many found in part of London in 1881.
- Did you know
...? has some rough statistics about the 1901 census and
a little on the STATHAMS
- Images A
leaflet for the Fountain Baths and a Souvenir booklet of Matlock
Bath (the cover is online, but more will be added in a eventually)
- References Link to UK Books Online and Links for scan of "Calendars
of Lichfield Wills and Administrations, 1516-1652", (1892)
ed. W.P.W. Phillimore, Index Library, British Record Society,
London.
- Wills Calendar
: Pre 1858 has 13 new names from "Calendars of Lichfield
Wills and Administrations, 1516-1652", (1892) ed. W.P.W.
Phillimore, Index Library, British Record Society, London all
extracted from the book at the FRC, London. Also two extra for
BOWN |
Link added:
-
Water Cures
- Images |
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The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank, by
Malcolm Shifrin is linked on both pages. The Images Index
also has links to several individual pages directly related
to Matlock and its hydros. |
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| Feb 2003 |
New Pages:
- The Great
Matlock Will Case - Court Report is the official account
of the eight day trial in 1864 to finally settle the question
as to whether three codicils found after the death of George
Nuttall, Esq., land surveyor of Matlock, Derbyshire, were genuine
or forgeries.
- "The
Great Matlock Will Case" - 100th anniversary newspaper
article by Roy Christian, published in "The Derbyshire
Advertiser" about 1958
- Images, several
new pages of old postcards, with accompanying background notes
as always, so there's something new to read. All images very
kindly donated by Photo-Ark and the new pages are all linked
to others onsite.
1. Dale Road,
Beginning of the Twentieth Century Matlock's Dale Road hasn't
changed greatly since then
2. The
Fish Pond, Matlock Bath, about 1920
3. The
Promenade, Matlock Bath about 1915
4. Rider Point,
Via Gellia, nr. Matlock Bath, 1909
River
Derwent from Lovers Walk, 1926
5. The Great Petrifying Well
6. St Giles Church, Matlock, about 1904
7. The
Victoria Prospect Tower, Matlock Bath in the grounds of
the Heights of Abraham, 1913
8. Smedley's
Hydro, Matlock, 1906
9. Smedley's
Hydro, Matlock - The Terrace, 1927 |
A whole new section:
- 'Bemroses'
Guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, &c' by John Hicklin. Although many of the engravings and some
of the text from the Matlock section of this lovely Victorian
Guide went onsite in 2001, I've recently rescanned the engravings
and OCRed all the text, so have moved several pages from the
Images section and added considerably to them. |
Additions to:
- Biographies :
now includes Alison UTTLEY
- Census : Changes and improvements to the Surnames Indexes
for the 1841 census, 1861 census and 1881 census (Matlock
Bath and Scarthin Nick only for 1881). There are now links from
each person's reference in the Surnames Indexes. You can navigate
directly to the census page each person is on.
- Images In
the index you can go to several new stand alone images. There's
the lid of a little box depicting High Tor and some Venetian
Nights Railway posters in the miscellaneous section. And under
external links (Other
pages & sites) navigate to a lovely photo of the now
demolished Scarthin Lodge at one of the gateways for Willersley
- The War Memorials Now has two old postcards as well as the modern photographs.
And on the page of names commemorating those on Matlock Bath's
memorial is a close up image. All images kindly donated by Photo-Ark
- Wills: The
last 131 names of 1858 - 1928 wills proved within Derbyshire
have been added as Michael Spencer finally completed his mammoth
project at the end of January and a few more PCC Wills in the
Pre 1858 section have been added, with some links to the Wolley
Manuscripts Info |
| Jan 2003 |
New Pages:
- References: Books
& Other Publications: the main page for references had
become rather large, so this new resource has been added. And
new for 2003 is an image of the Matlock Bath video, published
with kind permission
- Short Quotations
From Various Guides excerpt from The Forty Shires, Charlotte
M Mason, 1882
- What's New Matlock 2000 - 2001 The earlier items are now listed
on a separate page, to speed up download times
- Images : Two
new pages
1. Mr. Chippett's
School at Riber Castle has a photograph of the staff and
pupils of Riber School, 1918 as well as a description of what
it was like to be a pupil by the late Richard Beaumont
2. Rockside
Staff Ball shows the New Year's Staff party around the outbreak
of the Second World War |
Additions to:
- Hatches, Matches
& Dispatches: Twelve additional burials added to those
already listed for 1693-1695, plus some amendments, and 11 entries
in the burial registers amended between 1787 and 1799 as they
were actually baptisms. For surnames BUCKLEY CLOOSE ELLIOTT
GREGORY LOWE SMITH WHITE WILD WINDLEY
- Strays: five more
names - WW1 soldiers CROWDER FARNSWORTH HOLMES REYNOLDS WALL.
Their Christian Names have been added to the Matlock War Memorial
Names - see Surnames
A - J and Surnames
K - W |
Link added:
- Images : Peter
Aspey has a photograph of the Heights of Abraham, showing a
busy day summer's day and taken when he lived there around 1960
(see relevant section at the bottom) |
And have you noticed that the layout looks
slightly different? I worked on this from early December onwards
ready for the New Year. Plus, extra navigation aids have been
added to make it even easier to search so you can now navigate
back to the main index from the very top of every page as well
as the bottom.
And a hint for those wishing to get in touch. We, like everyone
else, receive a great deal of spam, junk mail etc. So there
is one page only with the email on it. But on every page, in
the bottom box, you'll find a hyperlink to that page. Just click
on Ann Andrews and it will take you to the page with the email
address. |
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