Glossop Area Family Histories.

Glossop Area Family Histories.

When we started researching my Glossop family history back in the Autumn of 1994 we soon realised that my paternal family had been in the area so long that we were able to trace family lines forwards as well as backwards (as is the convention) using parish and probate records. We also confirmed the truth of the assertion that if you can trace your family history in the Glossop area back before the industrial revolution then you are probably related (by marriage if nothing else) to everyone else who can do the same.

As we didn't live in the area we needed to gather as much as possible on visits we made. No domestic Internet in those days so we made a great deal of use of the parish register and MI transcripts created by the Glossop & District Historical Society, held by Glossop library, and obtained copies of wills and admons from Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire record offices.

The approach we took was to transcribe every entry we could find and then analyse the data into family groups (with help from newly identified cousins) when we got back home. By 1996 we had an Internet presence so I created a set of web pages - one for each of our family names plus some others - containing the results of the analysis which we thought might have been useful to other researchers (happily it was in some cases). These included some marital links between the various families.

Our research then stalled to an extent between 2005 and 2016 because of various other calls on my time. Returning to research in 2016 I was able to easily access far more information than was possible in the early days and discovered errors in those early pages which should not really be published as they only serve to confuse. Over the years I had created a family history database (using the Brothers Keeper program) which contained details of more than 12,000 people (from Glossop and far beyond) who all link to my family in some way, shape or form. The old pages were, therefore, deleted and replaced by a set of pages generated from the database by the Ged2www program. I have used the parameters within the program to remove, as far as possible, details of people who are still living but in the knowledge that the parameters are a little crude so some people thus identified will be deceased. If I have displayed details of living people that upset anyone please get in touch so that I can delete them. To browse our family history database click Here and follow the links.

Because so many families stayed in the Glossop district for so long, the local history of the area is inextricably bound up with the history of those families. They may not have made the fortunes of some of the incomers who owned the largest mills but they were the backbone of the development of the area in the 19th and 20th centuries – the people who owned smaller businesses and shops and the people who did the work that the mills relied on.

I have now gone back towards the idea of creating a set of web pages based on families, but with more detail where available. The pages have been constructed from information gathered from various sources (and very helpful people) over the last 25 years. Some families have been researched more thoroughly than others but the pages can be added to as time passes and more information comes to light (for instance, the number of children identified may well be less than the true total in some cases). I have no doubt that there are still links to be found between some of the (currently) separate family groupings for some of the names.

Name	Pages
Alsop	The Alsop family of Glossop and California The Alsop family of Glossop and Illinois
Barber	The Barber family of Hilltop and Padfield Barber family of Padfield, Deepclough and Torside
Bennett	The Bennett family of Simmondley and Birch Vale The Bennett family of Turnlee The Bennett family of Whitfield Bennett family of Hilltop Bennett family, blacksmiths of Rose Green
Boardman	The Boardman family of Castleton and Glossop, blacksmiths
Booth	A Booth Family of Hargate Hill A Booth Family of Simmondley (Hare & Hounds) A Booth Family of Charlesworth (George & Dragon)
Bower/Bowers/Boyer	A Bowers family of Glossop The descendants of John Bower of Hadfield
Bramhall	A Bramhall family of Glossop and Hadfield A first Bramhall family of Chunal A second Bramhall family of Chunal
Buckley	A Buckley family of Staley
Clarke	Clarke Family of Hadfield
Collier	The Collier family of Howardtown Vaudrey-Collier connection The Collier family, Publicans, Commercial Inn, Glossop
Cooper	Descendants of William Cooper of Whitfield A Cooper family of Gamesley and Throstle Nest
Crossland	Crossland family of Glossop
Cuthbert	A Cuthbert family of Glossop
Dewsnap	Dewsnap family of Glossop Dewsnap family of Hadfield Dewsnap family of Hargate Hill and Simmondley
Ellison	Ellisons of Glossop Hall
Fielding/Fieldsend	Descendants of Jeremy Fielding of Whitfield 1721 Descendants of John Fielding of Whitfield 1674
Garlick	A Garlick family of Dinting The descendants of John Garlick of Padfield and Waterside The descendants of Thomas Garlick of Hadfield The Garlick family of Charlesworth and Illinois The Garlick family of Padfield The Garlick family of Pikes and The Junction
Gee	The Gee family of Ludworth
Gill	The families of Priscilla Gill
Goddard	The descendants of James Goddard of Waterside
Goodison	A Goodison family of Glossop
Hadfield	A Hadfield family of Whitfield The family of John Hyde Hadfield The family of James Hadfield of Cross Cliffe The family of Joseph Hadfield of Whitfield The family of Robert Hadfield of Throstle Nest The descendants of John Hadfield, farmer of Hadfield Descendants of Jonathan Hadfield of Hadfield The Hadfield family of Cowbrook The Hadfield family of Crowden Hall A Hadfield family of Deepclough Hadfields of Willow Grove The descendants of James Goddard of Waterside Hadfields of Lees Hall Hadfields of the Old Halls
Hague	The Hague family of Glossop and Minnesota
Ham(p)son	The Ham(p)son family of Whitfield
Holden	A Holden family of Charlesworth
Howard	The Howards of Ludworth and Bridgefield
Hyde	A Hyde family of Hayfield The Hyde family of Hollingworth Head The Hyde family of Mellor A Hyde family of Holehouse and Whitfield
Kershaw	The Kershaw family of Hurst and Whitfield Robert Kershaw, Philanthropist
Kinder	A Kinder family of Mottram and Dinting The descendants of William Kinder
Lees	The Lees family of Padfield and Woolley Bridge mills
Lister	The Listers of Mirfield, Glossop and Paddington
Lomas	The Lomas family of Chinley
Marsland	The descendants of William Marsland
Mellor	The Mellor family of Sparrowpit
Neal	Neal family of Gamesley and Brookfield
Newton	The descendants of George Newton of Padfield
Nield/Neild	Nields of Mouselow Nields of Chunal and Dinting Nields of Whitfield and Hadfield
Oates	The Oates family of Handsworth and Glossop
Oldham	The descendants of William Oldham of Hayfield
Oliver	The Oliver family of Chapel en le Frith, Ludworth and Glossop
Patchett	The Patchett family in the Glossop area
Platt	A Platt family of Mottram The Platt family of Glossop
Rhodes	The Rhodes family of Tintwistle and Mersey Bank
Ridgway	The Ridgways of Little Hayfield
Robinson	The Robinsons of Gnat Hole Descendants of Robert Robinson of Cross Cliffe Descendants of William Robinson of Marple and Dan Bank
Sandham	A Sandham family of Glossop
Shepley	The Shepley family of Old Glossop and Brookfield Shepley family of Laneside A Shepley family of Chunal and Crosscliffe A Shepley family of Charlesworth
Sheppard	The Sheppard family of Whitfield
Sidebottom	Sidebottoms of Hollingworth
Slack	Slack family of Hayfield A Slack family of Mellor and Glossop
Syddall (various spellings)	The Syddall family of Glossop
Wagstaffe	Wagstaffe family of Bridge End Wagstaffe family of Hadfield
Wardlow	The Wardlow family of Charlesworth and Bridgefield
Warhurst	A Warhurst family of Hadfield
Wood	A Wood family of Whitfield Wood and Hill-Wood families Jam o' Jonathan's Wood family of High Stone and Woodhead

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Last updated: 7 December 2021