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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Fly on June 02, 2012, 08:03:51 PM
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I've given my genealogy website a make over .
Comments, good and bad, gladly received ;)
www.barryfeatherstone.co.uk (http://www.barryfeatherstone.co.uk)
I'm also interested if there is a connection to Featherstones around Chesterfield to myself.
I haven't found a connection myself :(
How about a 'Genealogy' sub board, in the, 'Old Chesterfield' board ?
Is anybody interested in tracing their family ?
We could share info, and websites available that supply data.
Discuss both.
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Is anybody interested in tracing their family ?
No need, she's sat at the side of me! :)
Discuss both.
.............and show your workings in the margin? ;)
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.............and show your workings in the margin?
Lost me on that one Dogboy, sorry q?
It's a bit late for me ^-^ ;)
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As a Roberts, with relatives all across North Wales I wouldn't even attempt it
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I don't think I have the imagination for genealogy. I did once read through a family tree that a member of my family produced but, for me, it was just like reading a list of meaningless strangers.
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Fly I have started my family tree - but don't seem to have the time to put together the last of my ancestors yet ::) Mainly due to it being so time consuming and my carpel tunnel which dictates I use the pc in short bursts. Would love to have the time to delv more though. Have you had relatives in the Tupton area Fly, as a family of your surname lived here for many years (think the wifes name was Jean can't think of her hubbies christian name)
@JR -- you didn't have arelative in Tupton did you? He was a teacher and came from Wales is now deceased.
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OC: Nope, Dad was from Colwyn Bay, met Mum in the RAF and when they left came back here.
Relatives were in Colwyn Bay, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Prestatyn.
Lost touch with all of them I'm afraid.
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I don't think I have the imagination for genealogy. I did once read through a family tree that a member of my family produced but, for me, it was just like reading a list of meaningless strangers.
Same here
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Lost me on that one Dogboy, sorry q?
It's a bit late for me ^-^ ;)
OK I'll type this out slowly for you Yp - 'discuss both' sounds like a school exam instruction, got it? ;)
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Received some family information from my mum's mum.
Added a link to a new tree on my website.
Lots of family from Chesterfield. :)
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I subscribe to a couple of genealogy websites if you want anyone looking up Fly. :)
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Cheers poppy :)
I'm currently on Gene's Reunited and Ancestry co uk
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Surnames, Floyde, Drury, Allen, Watson, Robinson, Reynolds, Gascoigne, Goddard, Charlesworth, Cooper and White.
These are all in the new tree I have on my site.
I'm 'not' actively searching for these names.
But people with these names in their family might make a connection to mine.
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Chesterfield genealogy, think I've nailed it now.
Updated my website again. Got all my info in one tree ;)
www.barryfeatherstone.co.uk (http://www.barryfeatherstone.co.uk)
Check the 'New' family link.
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Here's an email from from a viewer of my website.
Subject: The Featherstones
Hi, what's your query ? Thought you might like to know: There's a book in the British Museum on the Featherstone family who, many, many years ago were a noble family owning what is now The Strand and many other areas.. Apparently money was lent to the King & 100 years later when the family fell on hard times the paperwork had got lost.. (coo er, who'd have thought it?. Our side of the family are Norfolk based, grandfather was from the Wisbech area and apparently there's an abbey (Crowe?) in that neck of the woods with many Featherstones interred within (my great-grandfather's name appears on a plaque to the side of the main entrance...
Name: Barry Featherstone
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" SIR Barry featherstone!!!!! ;)
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Probably the reason all my ancestors were miners or farmers.
Someone absconded with the family inheritance :))
Just come across a revamped Featherstone website.
This page is my Great Grandads entry. My Grandad isn't listed as a child. I've emailed them ;)
http://www.featherstone-society.com/All%20World-o/g1/p1518.htm#i13084 (http://www.featherstone-society.com/All%20World-o/g1/p1518.htm#i13084)
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I reckon the majority of folk were either farmers, on the railways (when they came into existence) or in the pits - those were the days when a man would up sticks and leg it to the next county and beyond if necessary to find work - not sit on their bums claiming benefits
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Thomas Featherstone, My GGrandad, probably worked in a mine miles away from Shirland.
Clay Cross ?
He'd walk to and from work every day. :(
Still got visions of him walking from pit to his house in all his pit muck.
Wife filling the tin bath in front of the coal fire from a kettle. How big was the kettle. ?
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@ Andy Featherstone. From Chesterfield, Think he was a bouncer in the late 80's ?
Anybody know him.
I'd love to have contact details.
I know his uncle lives in Middlecroft, Stavely. But they ain't been back in touch with me.
And there not in the phone book :(
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Found a link to a book written about Warsop in 1884.
http://archive.org/details/warsopparishreg00kinggoog (http://archive.org/details/warsopparishreg00kinggoog)
There's a couple of references to my surname in it.
Some of my ancestors came from Warsop.
I can't find a direct connection, yet, but it's a big coincidence with a name like Featherstone :)