| Dec 2004 |
New Pages:
-Three new sections to Matlock
& Matlock Bath Guides. All surnames are linked from Find a Name
1. "The
Matlock Tourist; and Guide through the Peak, embracing Matlock
Bath, Haddon, Chatsworth and C", Henricus (1843), The
Museums Extract from the Henricus guide, with description
and image of the famous Blue John Vase executed by Mr. Vallance.
Many thanks to Jane Steer and Derby LSL.
2. "Days
in Derbyshire", by T S Hall (1863) Illustrated
guide by Dr Timothy Spencer Hall. The author nearly bought a
house on the Bank, which was subsequently purchased by John
Smedley. 9 pages plus index. A big thank you to Ray Ash.
3. "Holmes
Hand Book to Matlock Bath & Neighbourhood, including Chatsworth,
Haddon Hall, Dovedale" (1866) Matlock Bath, The
History, The Water, Museums, Caverns, Museums, Churches, Willersley.
Grateful thanks to Jane Steer and Derby LSL |
Additions to:
- Strays: GREATOREX
and WARD
- Flooding : Short
quote from the Derby Mercury re 1866
- Rockside, the
Former Matlock Hydro: Photos of the building when it had
reached a sorry state. Now includes pictures of the repair and
rebuilding work prior to conversion. Ten new pictures of how
it looked in September and November in the section "A Change
of Fortune"
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841:
1841 HAYNES KNOWLES TEASDALE WILMOT |
| Nov 2004 |
New Pages:
All with grateful thanks to Bernard Gale for his images
1. Matlock:
Lynholmes/Hurst Farm - on the first days of the Hurst
Farm Estate development
2. Matlock
Bath: North Parade, about 1960 - Gale's Gift Shop and
a recent shop of the Parade
3. Rockside Hall
of Residence - Young students at the Teacher Training
College |
Additions to:
- Miscellany Matlock's arms, taken from a small enamelled brass badge
- Strays: 13 Surnames
from Phillimore's Marriage Indexes for Duffield BARTON BRADLEY
GREGORY JOHNSON MULLINS PIDCOCK STEANDALL TAYLOR TURNER WALKER
WOOD and one illegible, but the abode is Matlock
- Wills: See
SKIDMORE - who / what is mentioned. Plus RADFIRTH - named in
non Matlock wills |
| Oct 2004 |
New Page:
1. Matlock &
District extracts from Francis White's General Commercial
Directory and Topography of the Borough of Sheffield with
all the Towns, Parishes, Villages and Hamlets Within a Circuit
of Twenty Miles (1862). Includes Scarthing Row from the
Cromford section as they are within Matlock Parish |
Additions to:
- Biographies: see RAWLINSON
- Strays: A final
push to complete all the non Derbyshire Strays from the 1881
census, adding 1083 names to the lists. Plus RAYNER in 1901
- Schools in earlier
times Added BUNTING and CUMMING names under Matlock Town,
plus staff at All Saints' ca. 1960 and additional info about
Starkholmes School |
| Sep 2004 |
New Page:
1. Wills, Matlock
Names in non Matlock Wills - post 1858. This is a new
addition to the Wills section |
Additions to:
- Strays: BUCKLEY,
DRABBLE, FARNERY, OWEN, WIGLEY, WOOD, WOODING
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 1840 4 more names
- Nineteenth
Century Lists County Councillors for 1899 and 1912
- Wills: See
HAWLEY - who / what is mentioned |
| Aug 2004 |
New Section and Pages:
- Magazines and Journals - Articles
I have been very fortunate to have been given permission
by "Reflections" Magazine, to publish on the website
a series of thought provoking illustrated articles written by
Michael Fay; there's also one by Lawton Slaney. I've created
a new section, separate from the Newspaper Cuttings on the site.
The link above is to the index, and you can navigate from there
to both the new articles and those published earlier, such as
the Roy Christian articles.
The articles this month are:
1. "One Man's
Photographic Memory", by Michael Fay.
2. Matlock Lido "Liquidating
a Former Tourist Asset",
by Michael Fay.
3. The
Enduring Folly of Riber Castle by Michael Fay.
4. Riber Castle
School "A Lesson in Matlock's History"
by Michael Fay.
5. Rockside
Hydro - "Watered-Down Future for a glorious icon
of the age of the hydro" by Michael Fay.
6. Joseph Whitworth - "Lives
Which Hung by a Thread"
by Lawton Slaney |
Additions to:
- Strays: ADIN, BOWN/BROWN,
3 refs to FRITH, 5 to UNWIN, VERNON
- Nineteenth Century Lists Magistrates for the County now includes
1899. Moved to Keeping
Law and Order, see Jan 2008
- Wills, Pre 1858:
See BOWN, BURGON, NEWTON. Links to transcripts on GENUKI |
| July 2004 |
Additions to:
- Nineteenth Century Lists: Matlock Railway Station in July
- August 1851, list of goods delivered (moved to its own
page in Jan 2008)
- Strays: 6 Martha's
in 1901 who were about 63
- Wills: See
GREAVES, LEACROFT - who / what is mentioned |
| June 2004 |
New Pages:
1. Phoebe Bown One of
Matlock's more unusual characters, Phoebe stood out from the
crowd. She could play the flute, the violoncello, and harpsichord
and was largely self educated. She broke horses, rode and farmed.
Article from "The
Reliquary",
published only a few years after her death.
2. Photographers Matlock
and Matlock Bath's early photographers and some of their pictures.
Includes more photos from Denis Potter's collection |
Additions to:
- 1901 Census Now has complete transcripts of Scarthin Nick, Matlock Bath,
Matlock Dale and Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment, which
are surname indexed. Two other enumeration districts are part
extracts, but not surname indexed. Matlock Green is partly extracted.
Thanks to the generosity of Annette Barber for pp.9-10 of ED
9, which includes part of Industrial Road & Wellington Street,
Matlock.
- Wills: See
PICKERING - who / what is mentioned
- Water Cures Extract
from White's 1857 Directory added (See The Hydros and Hydropathy,
Matlock's Expansion), plus alterations in presentation and additional
text to make some points clearer |
Links added:
- High Lees Farm now has a website which discusses the farm's
history. It is linked through Biographies
(see Uttley) | Riber
School | Matlock
& Matlock Bath References page |
| May 2004 |
Additions to:
- Nineteenth Century Lists Magistrates for the County now includes
1855. Moved to Keeping
Law and Order, see Jan 2008
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 on 8 Feb 1841 COOPER DIXON GREGORY LUDLAM KNOWLES MARCHANT PEARSON
REEVES SMITH WARD
- Strays: RAWLINSON |
| Apr 2004 |
New Pages:
1. Brunswood
Terrace, Matlock Bath photographed around 1910, this photograph
was taken to Canada by a local man who emigrated there
2. Church
Group Can you help us identify when and where this was
taken?
3. Harold Joseph
Cook One of the young men of Matlock who died in the
Great War
4. Unnamed Lady Do you
know who she was? |
Changes in layout (in time for Easter):
Matlock St. Giles
Marriages, Brides & Grooms has been redesigned for easier
use |
Additions to:
- Arkwright's Cotton Mill - a photogrpah of the house the manager built overlooking the
mill
- Churches & Chapels - photograph of Matlock Methodist and United Reformed Church,
plus two of St. Joseph's can now be viewed
Images - the
story of Rockside continues and several new photographs, showing
the beginning of the restoration, have now been added
- MIs - Miscellaneous
Memorials and Inscriptions Two images of the memorial on
the Hall Leys
- Strays: WRAGG and
BURROWS plus additional info for 2 CUMMING
- Names on Matlock's
War Memorial now has a close up photograph of a few of the
names |
Links added:
- Images to Julie
Woodhouse's site of commercially available photographs
- Lead Mining - link
to a website about Roman Britain
- References (see Tourism)
Link to Life in a Lens, a Victorian setting for a museum about
the history of photography
Link to to Derbyshire - The Peak District, maintained by Derbyshire
County Council's Tourism Department
- War Memorial links
to the new page about the Darley Dale's memorial, which is elsewhere
on the Andrews Pages |
| Mar 2004 |
A very large number of additions worked on
in February and March, put on the Internet during March |
Additions to:
- 1901 Census for Matlock Bath. Thanks to the generosity of Peter Aspey and
Chris Dewey I've been able to add another 162 names from the
Clarence Terrace (Peter) and the Upper Wood area (Chris) of
Matlock Bath. Enumeration District 14 f.85 p.35 and ff.88-91
inclusive
- Matlock's Memorial
Inscriptions - Miscellaneous ( see Hall Leys)
- Miscellany:
there was a Golf Club in Matlock Bath before Matlock's course
opened.
- Nineteenth
Century Lists: Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838 - 1841 a few additions from 1840
- Strays: 215 new
surnames, including BRYAN and Surnames V from 1901. Also Alice,
Henry and Rebecca aged about 60 in 1901.
Various for CUMMING, thanks to David Bates.
All 1881 census Surnames A and M extracted with a few others
associated with A and M surname families. Plus a Bonsall burial
(EVANS), one at Brackenfield (WRAGG), at Wensley (HARGREAVES)
and a couple at Cromford (TISSINGTON and WILLN). Plus a Crich
marriage (ADAMS). Do visit as it is easy to search.
- Wills: See
SHAW and STATHAM - who / what is mentioned and HAND, HOWE and
WOOLLEY who were missing from the original list |
Changes in layout:
Strays, Find
a Name, Matlock's Memorial
Inscriptions and the QuickList have all be changed to make them easier to search |
New Section:
- Matlock &
Matlock Bath Guides - nineteenth century tourist guides
writers described, in the most glowing terms, the many splendours
of Matlock and the surrounding countryside. By Matlock they
really meant Matlock Bath. All transcripts of Guides now link
to here, including Bemrose (1869)
- Matlock Advertisements
in Tourist Guides is a new page in this section |
New Transcripts in the Guides Section:
- "Picturesque Excursions from Derby to Matlock Bath and its vicinity; being
a Descriptive Guide" (1818) by Henry Moore, with
wonderful engravings. Transcript of the Matlock sections. Grateful
thanks to Jane Steer.
- "The
Panorama of Matlock and Its Environs With The Tour of the Peak" (1827) by H. Barker. Full transcript and frontispiece from
the 3rd edition, 1828. Grateful thanks to Derby LSL and Jane
Steer |
Pages moved into the Guides Section:
- "The
Beauties of England and Wales" Part 1
- "The
Beauties of England and Wales" Part 2
- Matlock Bath in 1840 moved, more information added and name
changed to "The Gem of the Peak"
- "The
Forty Shires" |
More New Pages:
1. Matlock Bath's Glove
Factory }
2. Matlock Bath Pavilion & the
Schools Mobile Library } both
with thanks to Bette Atkinson
3. Matlock Public Notices & Announcements from
old newspapers, some reflecting considerable changes
4. Matlock Advertisements in Various
Directories Transcripts of advertisements in old trades
directories
5. Mrs. Mary Widdowson,
who lived in Upper Wood, with thanks to Chris Dewey |
Link Added:
-Images of Matlock
& Matlock Bath to Brett Payne's Derbyshire Photographers
Site |
| Feb 2004 |
February and March are combined |
| Jan 2004 |
Links added:
- References link added to Derby LSL website and Pictures of the Past
- Images link
to Pictures of the Past |
Links changed:
On Matlock and Miscellany pages to Matlock Band's website |
Additions to
- Strays: Surname
C and DAKIN, all 1901 plus 28 assorted burials and baptisms
found by Mike Spencer in various parish lists. Thanks to Mike
for his continued hard work on behalf of those with Derbyshire
ancestors. Strays pages have changed, so an easier search by
first letter of surname |
