John Toplis of Pratt Hall Ashlehay born in the 1540s married
Elizabeth ......(as I sit typing this today, I can see Pratt Hall
Lane from my window Pratt Hall Lane adjoins St Helens Lane at Breamfields)
Son
Robert Toplis of Pratt Hall
Son
John Toplis of Brookwalls Farm Ashleyhay married Ellen Lowe
(Brookwalls farm is a few hundred yards along Pratt Hall Lane adjoining
Hey Lane)
Son
Thomas Toplis married Agnes Spencer 1658 daughter of Tobias Spencer of Hardhurst Farm Breamfields They living at Hollyseats Farm Shottle
Son
John Toplis married 1st wife Anne Greatorex of Stonebridge Wirksworth
2nd wife Rebecca Vallance daughter of Ferdinando Vallance of Alderwasley
married at South Wingfield Church 1711
Son by Rebecca
John Toplis born 1718 married Elizabeth Gell 2nd September 1741
daughter of Anthony Gell of Carsington (possibly a junior branch of the
Gells of Hopton Hall)
Son
John Toplis born 9th November 1746 married Sarah Penelope Buxton 1783
three years after founding the bank on The Causeway..married at St Peters
Church Nottingham... Sarah daughter of John and Sarah Buxton nee Dale
Sarah nee Dale daughter of Thurston and Hannah Dale nee Burton ..
Thurston Dale of Parwich Gent (The Dales also of Nottingham and
Sheffield one of whom I believe married into the family of Thomas Norris
Ince Solicitor / Genealogist of Wirksworth) John Buxton was a Soap Boiler
and Grocer of Nottingham
John and Sarah had one child, a daughter Elizabeth (sometimes named as
Eliza) who married George Greaves Gent of Page Hall, Elmsall Lodge, near
Doncaster Yorkshire Eliza his 2nd wife ..George Greaves 1st wife being
Anne Marie Rooke ..George was son of George Bustard Greaves of Elmsall
Lodge and Hesley Hall Nottinghamshire a descendent of the Beeley
Bagshaw-Greaves family. George Greaves brother John Greaves married
Louisa Jane Leacroft daughter of Thomas Leacroft of The Cliffe Matlock ..
See descendents of George and Mary Greaves nee Marriott of Derbyshire
John Toplis founded his bank in 1780 being joined in partnership with
Richard Arkwright in 1802. Richard Arkwright then taking over after
Toplis's demise in 1826 R Arkwright and Co was also known as Wirksworth
& Ashbourne Bank his sons being Directors after which it was known I
believe as Moore Robinson and Maltby (Nottingham Banking Co.) afterwards
known as Capital & Counties Bank and then Lloyds Bank then Lloyds T.S.B.
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