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Hi it's Derek of "Derbyshire Parish records".....
I'm starting a new Thread on which I intend to offer photographs of Gravestones in Derbyshire........with the following strict caveats:-
You will not get an immediate response, because I will gather together a number of requests and hope to service them in batches......if this takes off!
Please do not send me on wild goose chases..have a least some justifcation that the people you seek are actually in the place you say. This is easy enough because there is access to several MI sites.
As a lot of you know i do have PR's including Burials, but not always as late as some of you might wish..once in a graveyard..like Eyam where I was this last weekend.it is often possible to trace while families into the 20th Century.but don't bank on it.....
Finally some gravestones, particularly if they are sheltered are in surprisingly good condition, other in disppointingly poor condition.....it is not easy sometimes getting the best quality picture......so if i do this you'll get the best I can manage.
If you have doubts about the whereabouts of relatives..ask me..and I'll check......either on here or on my Derbyshire thread....
Just as a rider..I found some wonderfully detailed stones at Eyam with as many as five generations in one grave..covering over a century.
I'll keep this offer open over the summer (what summer??)..whilst there is decent light...so please add this to your threads.or some other way of bookmarking it..and come back to it when you need to.
All the best.
Derek.
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hi derek,i`am trying to fine the grave of my grt/grandparents,their death`s was registerd in chesterfeild,caroline moss 1939 & frederick moss 1940 any info would be much appreciated. many thanks frederick moss
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i do hope you can help as they were travellers
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Hi Derek,
What a generous offer thank you.
According to a Youlgreave burials disc , a William Fentum was buried on 25/7/1848 and I would love to know if he was my William. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the corresponding death record for him.
I'd be really grateful if at some point you would be able to check for me,.
Regards
Chris
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Frederick..no go..sorry...there are just too many possible Chesterfield Parishes..the death you have is a Chesterfield Registration District entry...and said District covered probably as many as 60 parishes......
Sorry
Derek.
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Hi Chrissie..so sorry for the delay.....Youlgreave has a massive Churchyard and I have failed to find a stone for William Fentum.
You say that your concern is that he was the right Fentum for you....if you give me some clues, like what you do know about YOUR Fentum..I'll find him!!
I notice that he is the only FENTUM amongst a load of FENTONs..which raises transcription problems.........and i nnotice he was 49 when he died and he died at Derby......
I have found no Civil registration for him..........and on Family Search there is no sign of him.........BUT there is a WILLIAM FANTOM at Darley Dale born 1799 baptised 1800.......one letter wrong in a 18th/19th C documment causes chaos in a name like this!!
Let me know what you think..either on here or on my other thread.
Derek.
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Hi Derek,
Thank you so much for taking the time to look for me.
You did some checking for me regarding William several months ago so I do not want you to waste your time trying again.
On his marriage to Jemimah Waine in 1822, his surname was Fentam but the surname has also been Fentum, Fenton and Fentem.
Do you know the names of the parents of the child baptised at Darley Dale.
I've just checked the 1841 census again and noticed that his daughters Ann and Eliza aren't on the census with the family. Looking for Ann I've found an Ann Fentem on Hackney Lane Darley with an Allan and Eliza Dougstad, makes me wonder if you've found my Williams baptism. Eliza is a couple of streets away from her parents.
Regards
Chrissie
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Hi Chrissie..I noticed the 1841 census with Fentam..and the youlgreave marriage 22.01.1822..as Fentam..............The William Fentam baptised 1801 darley had parents Thomas and Mary.........
There is a tree on Ancestry which says his death was registered Chesterfield 1849..and he was never in Youlgreave except to get married.......I've checked..no children born at Youlgreave...and Jemima was not buried there......
If William IS buried there then the only reason that i can see that he should be is if his wife had chosen to be buried there..which she wasn't
She was howver born there.......JEMIMA WAINE baptised Youlgreave 29.08.1802.daughter of John Waine and Mary nee Rowland.
Unfortunately the death registration in 1849 is for one William FENTON...and the only way to check that one out is to get the Death certificate in from Chesterfield........this does not discount his having been buried at Youlgreave 1848..and registered later.....
He apparently moved to Birchover after the birth of his first two children.and eventually to Derby.......as I told you the burial in Youlgreave 1848 died in Derby..........
This of course all depends on your decisions based on the variety of spellings.
Derek.
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Hi Derek,
I did send for that death certificate, William Fenton in Chesterfield, he was a 2 day old baby so not mine. I added a postem on Freebmd for that one.
Regarding the William Fentum, you say you notice he was 49 and he died at Derby, I've not been able to find that info, which one of your little tricks holds that? The age and place of death certainly fits for my William.
In the 1861 census, Jemimah and daughter Jane are living in Bakewell, name mistranscribed as Foston on FMP.
William and Jemimah had three sons, John (presumably named after her dad), William and Thomas (maybe named after Williams dad?)
I thought it was strange that my William would be buried at Youlgreave especially as Jemimah is buried at Nottingham Road cemetary Derby. Son Thomas who died in 1851 isn't buried with his dad, not too sure where he is buried.
I really do appreciate your help thank you.
Chrissie
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