Dear Diane, Thank you for responding to a recent posting on the mailing list. I am researching the families of William James WOOLLEY born 1859 Hanbury Staffs who on April 15, 1884 married Louisa MERCHANT born 1859 in Derby. They had at least 8 children of whom I am aware, all born in Derby City, Derbyshire, England: 1. Ernest William b. Feb 3, 1885 marr. Mary Ann SAUNDERS 1908 They had six children: Beatrice Alice, Florence, Leonard, Albert, Kathleen, and Stanley 2. Irene Louisa b. Oct 7, 1886 marr Alick HORTON 1906 They celebrated at least 60 years of marriage. They had one daughter, Irene. Alick was a senior manager in an Insurance Company. 3. Percy b 1888 4. Frank b. Jan. 8, 1890 5. Eva Annie B. Dec 20, 1891 died April 20, 1892 6. Vera Margaret b. Apr. 16, 1893 marr Alfred Whitehurst Oct 19, 1912. Alfred and Maggie ran the Robert Peel Pub near the railway station. They had three children; Alfred, Vera and Margaret. 7. Ethel May born Aug. 26, 1895 marr William PARRY b. 1881 in Gateshead, Durham in Leicester on Feb 26, 1916. He was a widower with 4 children; William, Jack, Albert and Annie. Ethel and William had 7 children; Philip, Rowland, Frank Harold, Irene ( my mother), Ethel May, Ivy, and Edith Lillian. 8. Edith Lillian b. Aug 26, 1897 died abt 1955 Married a man named FOSTER who was a jeweller in Derby. I am searching for any connections to these WOOLLEYs. My great grandfather, William James WOOLLEY was one of at least 15 children from Hanbury Staffs. I believe that several of his brothers may have come to Derby, which is not too far from Hanbury. My WOOLLEYs apparently originated in Derby about the early 1300s with one man, Rafe de WOLEY. I have been unable to trace my family from Hanbury back to Derby, but in the 1600s they lived in Riber Castle. I understand that the property was lost to a dissolute heir who lost all of his money to wine, women and perhaps too much song. I have so far found Thomas WOOLLEY born in Hanbury abt. 1770. That's as far back as I can get on that side. Any information which you may have on these English families would be most appreciated. My New Brunswick roots are CLARKEs from Rhode Island who came to Queens County, N.B. in 1783 then to Wentworth County, Ontario in 1811 and stayed there. Specific ancestors are Elisha CLARKE and Desire GARDNER married in 1763 in RI, their son Jabez CLARK b 1769 in RI marr. Rebecca BURNEY in 1800 in Wickham, N.B. They had at least 11 children who all came to Ontario and I know they had a few more children once they settled here. I have found a few cousins over the past few weeks through posting my information on the NB lists and am currently following up with three of them. Any help or links you can provide through your CLARKEs would certainly be appreciated. Kindest regards, Anne CLARK-STEWART Mississauga, Ontario 3/25/02 6:49 AM, Diane Mullin at dmullin@nbnet.nb.ca wrote: > Hi Anne > I am curious to who you are researching in Derby. I have many connections in > my database from that area. I have some Clarkes, Bryentons, Cloustons, > looking how to connect some Carnahans, etc > I am > researching the families of Northwest Miramichi as well as Hayden and > Chambers in the Chelmsford area. > Look forward to your reply > Dianne Mullin > -----Original Message----- > From: anne Clark-Stewart <leisurelodge@sympatico.ca> > To: NewBrunswick-L@rootsweb.com <NewBrunswick-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:05 AM > Subject: [NB-L] Re Canada in 1881 > > >> Dear Jayne, >> >> Hi. It looks like we are both on the NB mailing list now. My Derby >> research hit a brick wall, so I decided to look up another blind alley. >> >> The reason the 1881 census has fewer CDs than the UK census of 1871 is that >> there were many fewer people to enumerate in Canada. In 1881, there were >> approximately 3.6 million people in Canada while there were about 26 > million >> people in the UK census. Therefore, fewer CDs needed. >> >> If you or other listers are interested in seeing the migration patterns in >> Canada from 1891 to 1921, please check out the following site: >> >> http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1891/index.html >> >> You will be amazed at how the various waves of migration formed our county. >> >> Hope this helps with some of your research by proving a context fro how > they >> lived and worked. >> >> Kindest regards, >> >> Anne Clark-Stewart >> Mississauga, Ontario, Canada >> >> >> ==== NewBrunswick Mailing List ==== >> Tip of the Week >> To Search the NB-List Archives visit: >> http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=NewBrunswick >> To Browse the Nb-List Archives visit: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/newbrunswick >> >> >