Genealogy: Featherstones in Chesterfield.

[Old Cruser]

" SIR Barry featherstone!!!!!

[Fly]

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
 

[Old Cruser]

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

[Fly]

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. ?

[Fly]

@ 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 

[Fly]

Found a link to a book written about Warsop in 1884.
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