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From: STUART FLINT
Subject: My wife/my own Potter /Else family
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:59:24 +0100 (BST)
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The following is the family history of the Potter and
Wragg family
- 1.James Potter of Alderwasley born 1701
- 2.William Potter born 1702 married Hannah Land 1724
she of my mother's Land family
Children of William and Hannah Potter nee Land
- 1.Jonathan Potter born 1725 married Dorothy Eaton of Cromford
Dorothy sister to my wifes 5XGrandfather John Eaton
- 2.Amy born 1727
- 3.Anne born 1728
- 4.Hannah Potter married George Slack of Bolehill
he of my wife and my kin
- 5.James Potter born 1736 married Esther Woolley
- 6.Charles Potter born 1739 married Avice or Alice Gregory
- 7.Thomas Potter born 1742 married Dorothy Smith of Alderwasley
Dorothy distant kin to my mother's Smith / Cauldwell family
Children of Jonathan and Dorothy Potter nee Eaton
- 1.Thomas Potter
- 2.Jonathan Potter born 1753 married Mary Frost
- 3.James Potter born 1766 married Grace Peate daughter of
Phineas Peate of Coneygreave Farm Alport Heights..Grace sister to
Anne Peate who married John Flint my 3XGrandfather as his 1st wife..
Anne died in child birth first child John Flint who also died..John
then married Elizabeth Colledge of Mill House Green Wirksworth
they my 3XGrandparents..This Peate family also married into the
Higton family one of whose heirs is my near neighbour today
Children of James and Grace Potter nee Peate
- 1.William born 1792 married Anne Ogden daughter of Francis Ogden
Butcher Market Place Wirksworth
- 2.James Potter born 1796 married Jane Frith she also of my kin
her coussin Rebecca married Thomas Hodgkinson Landlord of
The Old Noahs Ark Inn Wigwell
they my 4XGrandparents on my mother's side of the family
- 3.Sarah Potter
- 4.Grace Potter married Anthony Spencer of Gorsey Bank they kin of
the Macbeth family of my allied kin Macbeths were Bakers where
Killers Bakery is today and then Solicitors..This Spencer family were
also my wifes fore bare family also kin to Butlers
- 5.Charles born 1801 married at Sheffield he a Plumber / Builder
- 6.Dorothy Potter born 1803 married Francis Maskrey Master
Stonemason of Gorsey Bank
- 7.Jonathan Potter born 1806 married Anne Brailsford daughter of
Joseph and Ellen Brailsford nee Hawley Ellen Grandaughter of
Abernathan Hawley he my 5XGrandfather on my mother's Sheldon Smith
Cauldwell Walker family ..Brailsfords of this family were my kin via
many marriages including Farnsworth Killer Sheldon Spencer etc etc..
through to more recent years.. Charles Brailsford of this family who
worked as a Mason for my kinsman George Colledge at Baileycroft
Quarry 1880s - married Evelyn Farnsworth they Grt Aunt and Uncle to
my sister in law J............. Flint my brothers wife nee Farnsworth ..
- 8.Hannah born 1808 married John Udale
- 9.Mary Potter born 1810 married Henry Spencer 1831 Henry brother
to Isaac and Joseph Spencer they cousins to my Gr Gr Grandfather
Samuel Flint who married Mary Killer..
- 10.Thomas Potter born 1814 at Sheffield
- 11. Elizabeth born 1815 at Sheffield
The Potters were Plumbers Plasterers and Builders who I believe worked
on contracts at Sheffield building the large Victorian Civic buildings
Children of Jonathan and Anne Potter nee Brailsford
- 1.John Potter Plasterer born 1836
- 2.Anne born 1838
- 3.Joseph Potter born 1841 married Elizabeth Anne Robinson
dau of Edward Robinson Gas Plant Manager Wirksworth
- 4.Thomas Potter born 1846 married Alice Spencer 1867
they my sister in laws Grt Grandparents ( J...... Farnsworth
married J..M.Flint my brother)
Children of Joseph and Elizabeth Potter nee Robinson
- 1.Joseph born 1863
- 2.Edward born 1868
- 3.Anne born 1872
- 4.Arthur born 1874
- 5.Lizzie born 1874
Children of Thomas and Alice Potter nee Spencer
- 1.Anne Potter born 1867 married Thomas Millward-Farnsworth
Grandfather of my sister in law J........ Farnsworth who married
J.M.Flint my brother
Thomas was at first a Pupil Teacher at Wirksworth's Anthony Gell School
but then became a Stonemason /Builder his former family of Millwards
and Farnsworths being Master Builders / Stonemasons
Farnsworths were still builders at Steeplegrange up to recent years one
of their kin a friend of mine today ..Thomas Millward Farnsworth worked
for Ouslnam and Fearn of Brassington Building Contractors..He was killed
on The Cromford & High Peak Railway line crushed under a train when
walking the line back home to Steeplegrange after a days work..
- 2.John Potter Plasterer / Building Contractor born 1869 married
Clara Isadora Millward Farnsworth sister to Thomas Millward Farnsworth..
Their son John Potter lived opposite my wife and myself on Cromford Road
Wirksworth in the 1970s he then in his 80s his wife a Smith of my distant
kin on mothers side of the family..
John Potter had been a Building Contractor his yard alongside where
Shaws (of the quarry) lived.. Mr Potter also had a public address system
which he contracted out to businesses and to fetes etc..As he became
less able he asked the writer of this history to carry out the public
address work which I did after my full time job
Children of Thomas and Anne Millward Farnsworth nee Potter
- 1.Martha Farnsworth married Walter Spencer son of William Samuel
Spencer of Middleton Walter one of the Brass Banding Brothers
see Buckley and Wragg family history
- 2.James Farnsworth married Evelyn Boden of Matlock Cliffe sister of
Herbert Boden Foreman J.W.Wildgoose Building Contractors / Quarry Owners
Matlock Bank and Ashover..Herbert Boden was also Musical Director of
Matlock Male Voice Choir
James and Evelyn were my sister in laws parents..
I have the full Farnsworth family history some of which is already on
John Palmers Contributed Pedigrees sent by Mrs Emma Hillman my sister
in laws 2nd cousin.. My work covers some areas re Farnsworth's not in
Mrs Hillmans research
Regards Stuart G Flint
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