As a last resort I would like to enlist the resources of this list in helping me to trace back from my 2xg g grandfather Benjamin MILWARD please. He was baptised at Snelston on 14th September 1790. His parents were John and Margaret but that is all I have been able to find out about them. Benjamin married Hannah RADFORD who I believe was from Colton, Staffordshire. He was an "ag lab" and they lived in the Fenny Bentley area for some time. Benjamin was buried at Ashbourne on 18th May 1834 when his address was Hanging Bridge between Ashbourne and Mayfield. In In 1841 Hannah was employed (and probably lived) at Wood Eaves Mill on Bentley Brook, Tissington. I have a John and Margaret marrying at Fenny Bentley on 27th October 1817 but they are too young to be Benjamin's parents. There is a burial of a Margaret MILLWARD aged 79 (i.e.born 1758) of Fenny Bentley at Tissington, Derbyshire on 17 December 1837 and also at Tissington a MI for John MILLWARD died Nov 14 1841 aged 75 years (i.e. b 1766). They are possibilities but I have no further information about them and MIL(L)WARD was not a rare name in Fenny Bentley at that time. Ref.The MILLWARD Murders!! Thank you for reading this Eric Millward

Hello Eric Have you considered the marriage between John MILLWARD and Margaret BARNET at Cubley 19 Feb 1787. This isn`t far from Snelston. best wishes Marjorie Ward Sources for Disley; Lyme Handley; Taxal & Whaley www.disley.net Sources for NWDby incl Chapel; Charlesworth; Chinley; Fernilee; Glossop; Hayfield; Hope Valley; Mellor & New Mills http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dusk