Contributors

The following have made welcome and valuable additions to the site so far…

Jeanette Brentnall ….. on the Brentnalls. (And see her work on Elijah and Hiram Brentnall at www.Scribd.com)

Sylvia Ball   ….. and the Balls of Burr Lane.

Billy Boy … on the Tathams of Nottingham Road and the York/Riley family in South Street …. and valuable detective work there!!

John Beniston … on the Beniston family.

Jane Gott … on William Armstrong and family.

Anita Furlong … on the Mystery Henshaws of Chapel Street, and a photo containing her father Robert Henshaw

John Goulder for providing detail on the Leadbetter family and marriages at Radford, and more recently, comments on the Tilson and Columbine families.

S. Hawkins … on the Hawkins family in Ontario.

Ruth Gawthorpe … on the Ebberns of the Poplar Inn

Alan Smith … on the Frost family of Hunger Hill

Martyn Taylor … on the Hodgkinsons at the Market Place

Peter Szewc for discussion of publican Thomas Marson

Jim Jeffery … on Julia Rason Warner

John Daykin … on the Daykin family history and the Birch family

Ann Crewe … on the family of George Clay Smith.

James White … for provoking more detail on Smith’s Bank of Bath Street.

Martin Harvey … on the Harvey family at the Three Horse Shoes

Dianne Timmerman … on the Walker family of Park Road .. and Iowa!!

Brenda Sweeney … on a branch of the Scattergood family

Pam Bates … for valuable additions to the family history of Amos and Sarah Beardsley, the Goddards, and Ebberns, and for her school photos and many others

Carol Smith … on the Morley family

Pete Dawson … for a load of material from his family ‘scrapbook’

Peter Coles … for a nice postscript on Edwin Wragg

Simon Hollingworth … for the Hollingworth family detail

Jon Baldwin … for detail on Thomas Machin

Jim Beardsley has taken many photos of Ilkeston and has allowed a selection of these to appear on the site. My sincere thanks to him.

Jim Morse … for sharing family photos and prompting a section on Bartholomew Wilson and his family.

John J Stakes … his notes on the Tatham family

Natalie Smithson … for more on the Brocklehurst family

Kate Miller … for her information of the Frost and Burrows families of Nottingham Road

Keith Sandy … for information on Elizabeth Hardy of Baptist Chapel Yard (and her relatives)

Martin Jackson … for filling a gap in the Paxton family history

Sarah Gatley … for adding to the School Days scrapbook (Day 3)

Andrew Knighton … for sending several personal extracts of information on John Wombell, Mrs. Nellie Gormley of Chaucer School, and the Stack Yard near Pelham Street. Also a photo of butcher Thomas Ebbern. And several more photos to be found at School Days. And many more items and information. (see latest updates for 2019)

Phil Henshaw … for his short history of uncle Len and his account of Arthur Reuben Johnson

Heidi Elbediwy … for her work on the Sanders and Wheeldon families

Mike Hallam … for his notes on the Hallam family

Dave Ball … for sharing his family photos

Sally Kent (nee Yorke) … for information on her great great grandfather David York/Yorke

Jonathan Morton … for further information on the Maltby family

Rick Henshaw … for a great profile of George William Henshaw (1921-1999)

Roger Purcell … for sharing his research of his family tree

Tony Gale … for informationon photographer William Gillam

Thelma Wigley … for Derbyshire detail of the Wigley family

Joanne Ouchterlonie … for her extensive Howe family history

Anita Jackson … for her valuable research on the Potter family of Queen Street

Peter Cave … for taking time to explore the life of Edgar Chadwick

Karen Masters … for more on the family of One-armed Tom Bostock

Diana Osman … for sharing her Shaw and Cooke family histories

Celia Renshaw et al … for donating part of her work on William Hawkins

Chris Willis … for his family photo of Samuel Flinders

Gary Wilkinson … for some terrific work on the Paxton family

Jennifer Floyd … and her excellent work on the Ilkeston Salvation Army

John Daniel … for his notes on the Mathers and elsewhere

Nigel Downes … for his work on the Norman family

John Paling … for his outstanding website on the Letters of Thomas Jackson

Mo Davies … for her additions to the Goddard saga

Claire Gregory … for her family photo of Capt. Charles Hiram Gregory


And thank you to the several others who have taken time to add a comment.

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