Date: Sunday, 22nd September, 2002 Time: 10.30 a.m.- 4.30 p.m. Venue: The Peacock Inn, Four Lane Ends, Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire. Plenty of Parking! If Main door closed, access by outside steps from car park, but Take Care.... Upper Function Room. - Refreshments available Bars Downstairs - Meals available. This is an old coaching inn which no doubt some of our ancestors would have known and used as it was the main coaching run from Derby to Sheffield. No doubt horses were changed over at this point ready for the hills ahead. A warning to all those who imbibe too enthusiastically, or dally too long, is seen through a glass panel in the floor of the main bar!! Look out for it as you arrive..... (For those of you who do not know the area, it is situated by the traffic lights at the crossroads of the main road (A615 in my old atlas) from M1-J28 via Alfreton following Matlock signs , and the road from Chesterfield to Pentrichlane End - between Ripley and Ambergate on the Ripley-Ambergate Road (The Excavator Pub at this junction). Map ref SK3955.) The aim of the get-together is for anyone researching CUTTS to meet and exchange information and have a pleasant day. Please come along whether you feel you know everything, or nothing, about your own particular Cutts family...Bring any charts/family trees/photos, lists from family bibles, 'brick walls', letters, etc.. etc. We want to make the day as interesting as possible for everyone. Also there are many places of interest in the area for those who want to make a weekend of it with their families. Matlock Illuminations take place that weekend so a chance to kill two birds with one stone! The new Derwent Valley Heritage Site is centred around the old Cotton Mills at Belper, Cromford and Matlock Bath and you can learn more about the Industrial Revolution and the way it affected our forefathers here than in many libraries......and it is ' Reality'. A good way to re-learn the history we did not pay attention to at school, and to enthuse your children into not doing the same.....(We know that a Henry Cutts was in charge of Cromford Canal Wharf in 1811 and need to know more......) John Frawley is working hard on the last minute arrangements and agenda for the day, Lesley Bayston, our List leader, has been gathering in as many non-listers as she knows who may wish to join us, Jim Cutts has promised to bring his chart showing all who descend from Ralph Cutts and Elizabeth Amrie who married in 1630 (probably most of us in the East Midlands!) as well as all his GRO refs, and as many other records as his car boot will hold, Tony Cutt will be talking about DNA and Fingerprinting for future researchers, I will bring a few of my many files showing the family groupings I am trying to build, (too many to bring all) and I am adding my 'twopenn'orth' by trying to enthuse as many of you as can make it to come along and make our first Get Together a success. Summer has drawn us all away from our computers and charts and we are all promising ourselves that we WILL spend more time on it this Winter (I have not even managed to find time to extract my 1901 census yet) I will be travelling up to the area for a family event towards the end of next week, but will be staying locally over the Saturday/Sunday evenings and maybe spend some time in the Matlock Record Office or Local Studies before returning to Nottingham on the Monday or Tuesday evening. Anyone else staying in the area overnight, please let me know and I would love to meet you and have a meal/chat/stroll among the lights/whatever. Watch the List for more details. Hope to see many of you next week (with apologies to those overseas who cannot - but we may find out more about your relatives' families in the process). Bye for now, Mavis Johnson, researching all Cutts in E. Midlands and beyond...