From: STUART FLINT
Subject: Simpsons of Middleton Tyas/Oakerside Wensley/Bolehill and Middleton
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 19:30:49 +0000 (GMT)
Hello John
Over some time I have been researching the family of Peter Simpson
of Oakerside who lived alongside my Shaw family of the same place..
The following is the pedigree of Peter Simpson with connections to my
family.. (This Simpson family is a different branch to my direct
Simpson family of Idridgehay and Mill House Green Wirksworth)
Peter Simpson born 1695 approx at Oakerside near Wensley Darley Dale
married Katherine Cowper of Wensley 1716
- Son
Peter Simpson married Hannah Elliott daughter of William and Elizabeth
Elliott nee Kniveton of Bonsall (see Brenda Clifton's
Kniveton Pedigree
on John Palmers Contributed Peds)
FOOTNOTE Peter was a Copper Miner at Middleton Tyas a village near
Richmond North Yorkshire..His family were in partnership with Tissingtons
of Wensley / Wirksworth and with Leonard Hartley Esq. ( whose family were
wealthy landowners in the Richmond area) at the mine which only lasted for
about 30 years before being worked out..Peter was fatally injured at the
mine his demise at Oakerside....Hannah his wife then remarried Samuel
Street of Bolehill who was of my wifes and my kin..see Ince
Street Pedigrees
Hartley and Tissingtons also had partnerships at mines in
North Wales and Westmoreland..The Tissington family married into the
Mawes who were major financiers in the mineral mining industry. Various
Tissington families
are included in Ince Peds on John Palmer's Wirksworth web pages
Children of Peter and Hannah Simpson nee Elliott
- 1.Adam Simpson born 1760 married Hannah Doxey 1782 (I believe she was the
daughter of William and Mary Doxey nee Smedley born 1765 married to Adam
aged 17 years) Adam born at Middleton Tyas but who then lived at Rise End
Middleton and then Bolehill
- 2.Hannah Simpson married John Sims of Bolehill..Hannah died and John
remarried to the widow of William Knowles of Matlock Mining Agent nee
Milward of Darley Dale
Adam and Hannah had many children but most obt in early childhood
A son Joseph married Hannah Allen of Cromford living for a time at
Manchester but then returning to the Wirksworth area having many
offspring
A daughter Elizabeth born 1805 had a son Thomas out of wedlock in 1833
and then married
Robert Adams of Rise End Middleton as his 2nd wife..Roberts first wife
being Sarah Bateman of Middleton..married 1824 Robert and Sarah were
parents of Robert Adams who married Ruth Killer my 3XAunt...sister to my
Gr Gr Grandmother Mary Flint
Robert who married Sarah was son of Robert and Margaret Adams nee Buxton
of Middleton. Roberts cousin also named Robert married Elizabeth Buxton
sister to Margaret
Children of Robert and Margaret Adams nee Buxton
- 1.Ellen born 1786 married James Peat of Wirksworth. Ashlehay
- 2.Edith born 1793
- 3.Elizabeth born 1787 married Robert Flint of Alderwasley..
(my father was born 1894 in the house on Hillside Middleton which
Robert and Elizabeth lived, as did one of their sons, owned in the
1890s by Killer Bros who owned Hopton Wood Stone quarry )
- 4.Hannah born 1799 married Samuel Sheldon 1820 of my kin Witness Peter
Henstock
- 5.Mary born 1790 married Peter Henstock of my kin (Slaley) 1813
- 6.Robert born 1797 married 1st wife Sarah Bateman 1824
2nd wife Elizabeth Simpson
- 7.Sarah obt 1803 1 year of age
- 8.Alice born 1794
- 9.Anne born 1805 married Abraham Walker of Middleton
Children of Robert and Sarah Adams nee Bateman
- 1.Hannah born 1827
- 2.Robert married Ruth Killer
Child of Elizabeth Simpson
- 1.Thomas Simpson born out of wedlock 1833 married Hannah 1857 (either
Evans..in which case she was my wifes Gr Gr Aunt daughter of Joseph
and Millicent Evans or Slack daughter of Samuel and Mary Slack in
which case she is still of my wifes kin but also of my own distant kin..
On the census it gives Hannah as being born at Middleton but there is
no record of her marriage to Thomas Simpson on either the Parish records
or in the L.D.S. family search web pages..The Hannah of this marriage was
14 years of age in the 1851 Middleton census..I have traced back to just
the two who could have been Thomas's wife)
Children of Robert and Elizabeth Adams nee Simpson
- 1.Job Adams born 1837
- 2.Mary born 1839
- 3.Edward born 1846
- 4.Matilda born 1849
Children of Thomas and Hannah Simpson
- 1.Adam Simpson born at Manchester 1867 Stationers Assistant at Matlock
- 2.Joseph Simpson
- 3.Mary Matilda Simpson
- 4.Elizabeth Simpson born 1871 married John Brailsford Plasterer son
of Joseph and Ellen Brailsford nee Hawley Ellen's Hawley family being
my kin via my mother's Cauldwell Sheldon Walker family . John Brailsfords
Grandparents were John and Rebecca Brailsford nee Killer Rebecca my
4XAunt sister to my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather John Killer who married Mary
Hawley (daughter of William and Mary Hawley nee Henstock of Slaley Hall
of my father's kinship)
Regards S G Flint
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