We now have an All Our Stories section on our website.
We already have some entries for this which I am sure you will find interesting.
If anyone would like to include their stories please send them to enquiries@killamarsh.org (with a photograph if possible).
We look forward to hearing from you.
Les Matthews of Victoria, Australia is researching his family tree and has found a number of connections with the Chesterfield Canal, Norwood Colliery and Westthorpe Colliery.
Family names he is looking into are Shimwell, Oliver and Matthews.
Can anyone help please?
Any information can initially be passed by email to enquiries@killamarsh.org
Angela Bold is researching her family tree and is asking for information with a Killamarsh connection.
She says she has found out that her famility originated from Killamarsh.
The information she has is that they ran a Public House and also a Butchers on Shepherd Lane which is now Bridge Street.
Their names were George Walker and his wife Mary Walker and their children Frank, Gweneline and George.
In 1901 George Walker was then married to Annie Eleanor Walker and had three daughters Harriet, Eleanor and Frances and they lived at 11 Bridge Stree, Walkers Lane, Killamarsh.
They later moved to the Hope Valley and ran the Blacksmith’s Arms in Hope.
Can anyone remember this family and the name of the public house they used to run on Shepherd Lane/Bridge Street.
Any information can initially be passed on by emailing enquiries@killamarsh.org
Glen Rigby of Vancouver B.C., Canada is looking to contact relatives of his Grandmother. Below is the information that Glen has given us. Hopefully someone will be able to help him. If you have any information please email secretary@killamarsh.org and I will put you in touch with him.
My name is Glen Rigby and I am trying to connect with relatives of my grandmother on my father’s side of the family. Her maiden name was Florence Fox. She was one of the 8 offspring of Benjamin Fox and Sarah Stocks. She was born on Green Lane, Killamarsh in 1877 and died in Vancouver B.C., Canada in March 1960. My father, Arthur Rigby, was also born on Green Lane.
I have also managed to trace my grandmother’s sister, Frances (Fanny) Fox, through her marriage to Joseph Batty and on further to her emigration to Perth, Australia.
I would specifically be wanting to get in touch with any descendants of John Joseph Fox, Benjamin Fox, Sarah Ann Fox, Dennis Fox and William Fox. It could also be possible that some of the Batty family would have some information on the Fox family.
I am including below two charts, one for Florence and one for her sister, Frances.
Thank you.
I know some of you already do this, but I have received an email from an ‘old Killamarshian’ who no longer lives in the village asking if it would be possible for any ladies who submit entries on the Memory Bank, Photo Gallery or Forum to include their maiden name as when people read the entries it would be good for them to identify if the message has been left by someone they know, for example went to school with, as if they only give their married names they are not necessarily identifiable.
Just a thought.