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From: "Margaret" <>
Subject: Re: [Chesterfield] Eckington and Staveley
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:32:47 -0000
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Hello Burno,
I am particularly interested in your email, whatever email started this
thread,
I seem to have missed the start of it.
Most of my relatives seem to come from Chesterfield, and some of the areas
you mention. Perhaps I have been looking in the wrong areas for them. I
would be interested if your thoughts are that the relatives would have been
regisitered in the Churches of where they lived - as I have been looking for
them, or should I also be looking in the Chesterfield area too?
I would be interested. Many thanks.
Best Regards
Margaret.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: [Chesterfield] Eckington and Staveley


> I cannot agree with the statement that the inhabitants of these two places
> used both churches. I have researched throughout this part of North East
> Derbyshire for the last thirty years or so and never found this to be so.
Both
> parishes were extensive with several small hamlets; Eckington included
> Renishaw, Ridgway and Mosborough to name but some, and these places did
get their
> own churches round about the turn of the twentieth century. Mosborough
is now
> within the boundaries of the City of Sheffield (as are Beighton, Norton
and
> parts of Dronfield parish, all formerly in Derbyshire). Probably the
nearest
> places to Eckington within the old Staveley parish were the Handleys and
a
> church was built there, again around the turn of the century, which I
believe
> eventually came within the jurisdiction of Eckington.
>
> I am not saying that Eckington people NEVER went to Staveley church, or
vice
> versa, but I am very familiar with both sets of registers as far back as
> they go, and I never found it to happen on any regular basis. Couples
did
> usually marry within the bride's parish and the first child might be
baptized
> there, but this could happen anywhere. One set of my great grandparents
both
> lived in Staveley but married in Chesterfield. They did live briefly in
> Renishaw, but the two children born to them there were both baptized in
Eckington
> church. When they lived in Staveley they baptized in Staveley church.
>
> I find this statement to be very misleading to anyone who is not familiar
> with the area.
>
> Bruno
>
>
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