The Brailsford family are my kinsmen also via Killers Hawley's Farnsworths
Potters Sheldon and Doxey
William Gamble Shoe Maker having the shop where in my youth Ray Buxton
of Cromford had his Shoe Shop Mr Ray Buxton being father of Ian who
played cricket for Derbyshire and football for Derby County he as a
school boy playing cricket and football at Anthony Gell Grammar School
my brother John M Flint also Goalkeeper for Gells in the same period
as Buxton and Peter Hayworth played
William married Anne Wragg daughter of Samuel Wragg of Wirksworth 1843
(he remarried Mary Jane Thompson widow nee Mee in 1891 in his 70th year)
Sarah Jane Gamble born 1863 married William John Harrison son of
James Harrison 1886
Regards Stuart G Flint
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Sorry ! but I am related again to Harrisons both on Buckley and Harrison
and distantly via Benyons
James Harrison senior married Mahala Buckley who was dau of George and
Millicent Butler widow of John Butler (my wifes and my kinsman) nee Brookes
James Harrisons brother Herbert Harrison married Ellen Land (also known
in records as Sarah Ellen Land born 1837) Ellen Land was daughter of
George and Anne Land nee Brookes of Bolehill, George Land being brother
to my Gr Gr Grandmother Hannah Land who married James Smith whose daughter
Sarah married Thomas Cauldwell they my Grt Grandparents their daughter
Annie Cauldwell marrying John Walker they my Grandparents
James Harrison was son of Thomas and Sarah Harrison of Ockbrook (in some
records Borrowash). For a time Sarah in 1841 aged 30 years and James
born 1838 lived with John and Hannah Sims nee Stafford at Wirksworth
John Sims being my kin via William and Dorothy Sims nee Allen Dorothy's
Allen family marrying into my Flint family some four times, Sims my kin
via Slaters and Flints an heir of the Sims /Slater / Flint family being
Councillor Joshua Frederick Slater (Fred) who was known as The Father of
Wirksworth Urban District Council he having a Cycle Shop and Tobaconists
on St John Street opposite Waltham House My father and Fred along with
W J Harrison and his son Norman Harrison were all Councillors on
Wirksworth UDC
William John Harrison was son of James and Mahala Harrison brother of
James who had the Plumbing business at Market Place and was Water Bailiff.
W J Harrison was Chairman of Wirksworth UDC when the new road named after
him Harrison Drive was driven through the quarry workings once owned by my
kinsman George Colledge (Baileycroft Quarry)
W J Harrison married Sarah Jane Gamble dau of William Gamble
Millicent Harrison daughter of James and Mahala Harrison married John
Benyon son of John Benyon who was Butler to the Price-Woods at Wirksworth
Hall (related to Hurts and Mead Waldo's) John senior I believe was the
founder of Wirksworth Labour Party and may have been founder of West
Derbyshire Labour Party
William J Harrisons son Norman Harrison was also a Plumber living at
Steeplegrange..
Norman was married to Lillian Petts of Middleton dau of John James Petts
brother of Bertram Petts who together founded Petts Monumental Masons
Chapel Lane Middleton their yard next door to my family home Lillians
sister Ada Petts married my father's brother John Samuel Flint (known to
my as Uncle Jack) Uncle Jack was a Steam Engine Driver main line
James Harrisons shop in Market Place Wirksworth became a Newsagnts by the
1920s as Herbert Leonard Doxey who married Ada Botham cousin to my Uncle
Arthur Botham (married Leah Amelia Flint Dads sister) owned it by the
early 1930s My father had a Drapery Shop opposite H L Doxey now a
Butchers near where Hunters had their shop next to what is now NatWest
Bank Market Place ( Crompton & Evans Bank built by my Grt Grandfather
Joseph Walker & Sons) My father was Apprentice Grocer at Hunters in 1906
he becoming a Master Grocer the Manager being when my father was training
from age 12 years Mr Alan Fields of Manchester who married into the
Thompson family of Wirksworth I have Dads Indenture papers signed by
Mr Fields stating that he was a Master Grocer
My father already had opened a Grocery and Provisions and General
Dealership business on Main Street Middleton by the 1930s and placed
Douglas Slack his friend and distant kinsman, Douglas Slack also my
wifes kinsman as Manager at the Wirksworth shop.
In time Mr Slack took over Dads business but unfortunately he passed away
in his 40s
Herbert L: Doxey was Douglas Slacks Uncle and purchased the business from
Mr Slacks widow Mary Slack nee Stone of Street Lane Denby (Stones
still present in the town as Building Supply Traders at The Old Cinema
St John Street ) On Douglas Slacks demise Mary married George Housely
Building Contractor both deceased
Herbert Doxey placed his daughter Mary Livingstone nee Doxey in the shop
as manager with her husband Samuel Livingstone ..Samuel Livingstone was a
Founder with my father Harry S Flint and Rafe Blackwall plus others of
Wirksworth Rotary Club in 1947/8
Samuel Livingstone died in his 30s and Mary remarried Peter Ward-Close
of Millers Green they in more recent years removing to Loughborough where
I was in touch with them up to two or three years ago they then in their
80s
George Buckley who was father of Mahala married twice 1st wife Martha
Street in 1815 Martha also my kinsmwoman and my wifes (my wifes
4XGrandfather was Benjamin Street who married Sarah Morris Benjamin's
daughter Harriett married Ambrose Blackham Horse Nail Maker Wash Green
they my wifes 3XGrandparents also Grand fore bare of Mr Jack Doxey of
West End Wirksworth well known historian deceased he General Manager
at Velvose Hosiery Works West End now the Registered Office of Janet
Reger also Grand fore bare to my friend Mrs Mary Alton nee Doxey of
Langley Mill who is Accompanist to Alfreton & District Male Voice Choir..
where I was a one time member Jack Doxey wrote a book abouth his
life on The Dale and Greenhill
George Buckley's 2nd wife Millicent Butler was widow of John Butler
whose Butler family are my kin via Shaws who owned quarries at Middle Peak
Wirksworth, Hoe Grange Longcliffe and at Matlock.. John Butlers family
also being my wifes family her Grt Uncle being Frank Holmes Butler of the
same Butler family, he half brother to Herbert Evans my wife's Grandfather
Douglas Slack's father George Slack married as his 2nd wife when John
James Petts's obt
J J Petts's widow, my Aunt Ada Flint nee Petts her sister Lillian Harrison
nee Petts
and Douglas Slack living together up to their marriages
Regards Stuart G Flint
