November 11th … pews dues inflation incites Congregation irritation, then retaliation
November 10th … the Irish community at Robey’s Yard
November 6th … the death of William Simpson at the Town Railway Station, 1871
November 5th … the 1871 Religious Census of Ilkeston
October 31st … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
October 30th … the Straws at Straw’s Bridge: some family history
October 28th … 1869/70: John Wombell vs the Local Board – seconds out !!
October 27th … into Belper Street, and there’s always one !!!
October 25th … new material for the Town Station
October 24th … 1870; John Trueman of the Durham Ox displays his shooting skills
October 23rd … James Chadwick, dealer in (stolen) goods ??
October 21st … an Inspector calls .. at the Vicarage, and the Rev. James Horsburgh is £50 poorer
October 20th … a new section; a list of the more obscure Victorian place names followed by Jim Beardsley‘s scrapbook of Ilkeston Streets
October 18th … more on the UMFC movement in Ilkeston … here and here
October 12th … in the early 1860s what did Thomas Hives, proprietor of the Ilkeston Baths, Joseph Aldred, landlord of the Old Harrow Inn, butcher William Riley of Bath Street and John Wombell of the Ilkeston Pioneer, have in common ? — the one-word answer begins with B
October 11th … 1861: Ilkeston Highway Board flexes its financial muscle … to no effect !!!
October 10th … more detail on the sale of butcher William Riley‘s property in Bath Street and Northgate Street
October 5th … a new page on the Ebbern/Paling families, many thanks to Anne Barrett
October 1st … the Mystery of the Exploding Boiler is solved ???
September 30th … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
September 29th … a burning issue for James Chadwick
September 18th … John Osborne, man of many trades and several addresses
September 17th … the sale of Chain Row in 1860
September 16th … Ilkeston’s first Petty Sessions, April 1860
September 15th … another Ilkeston hero of Waterloo: John Potter Slater
September 13th … more detail on Thomas Calladine, confectioner of Bath Street
September 12th … at last !! ’bout time the streets at Common Edge had decent pavements and drainage
September 10th … the 1857 General Election in Ilkeston (South Derbyshire)
September 3rd … yet another court case for John Wombell 1855
September 2nd … 1855 and the restoration of the parish church pauses for refreshments
August 31st … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
August 29th … cock fighting in early Victorian Ilkeston
August 20th … the Harrison Family of the lower Market Place
August 5th … the estate of Robert Wade senior
August 4th … Ilkeston’s beer “crisis” on the eve of the Victorian Age
June 20th … the 1832 Great Reform Act and Ilkeston
April 30th … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
April 21st … the Local Board and Ilkeston’s infant fire brigade
April 19th … more detail on the Mason family of candlemakers
April 16th … William Campbell and his family revisited and revised
February 28th … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
February 27th … a revised look at the west side of Bath Street, from Providence Place to the Poplar Inn
February 19th … the short career of John Spray
February 12th … more detail on the residents of Burgin’s Yard
February 9th … when and by whom was Ilkeston’s first Methodist chapel built ? Mystery solved !!
February 8th … another look at Warner’s Yard
February 4th … more on the Sudbury family in South Street and in Queen Street
February 1st … George Smith, post mortem
January 31st … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
January 25th .. the transcription of the Stanton Road burials is now complete (for the time being)
January 25th … Stanton Road burials for 1882-1884 and 1888-1890, both only partial
January 24th … Stanton Road burials for 1891
January 23rd … Stanton Road burials for 1885
January 21st … Stanton Road burials for 1886
January 19th … Stanton Road burials for 1887
January 17th … Stanton Road burials for 1930-1947
January 15th … Stanton Road burials for 1920-1924 and 1925-1929
January 14th … Stanton Road burials for 1915-1919
January 13th … Stanton Road burials for 1910-1914
January 11th … Stanton Road burials for 1907, 1908 and 1909
January 9th … Stanton Road burials for 1905 and 1906
January 8th … Stanton Road burials for 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904
January 6th … Stanton Road burials for 1899
January 5th … Stanton Road burials for 1897 and 1898 added
January 3rd … Stanton Road burials for 1895 and 1896 added
January 1st … a new year and a new project. With gracious generosity, Ann Featherstone has donated to the site much of her data on burials at the Stanton Road Cemetery , compiled with meticulous and painstaking research. This will help to fill in some of our existing gaps. I have just started incorporating these into the site. You can find the first entry here. The records will gradually appear in the section on Stanton Road Burials 1864 onwards (under Ilkeston deaths and burials).
