Hi Jeremy Great to hear the certificate has helped proved your assumptions. As for this snippet “as Michael JENKINSON is listed as a Miner for Water Company and the year on the certificate is 1862, is it reasonably safe to assume that he would probably been involved in the construction of the Bradfield dams, possibly Dale Dyke?” well, yes, it would seem likely and needless to say, it has piqued my interest as, according to Samuel Harrison [journalist at the time of the flood and author of the book A Complete History of the Great Flood at Sheffield], a man called JENKINSON died in the flood and he tells us “A great many dead bodies were found in this neighbourhood. In these gardens were a number of small cottages, some of them used merely as tool houses, and others occupied by the artisans who rented the garden plots. In one of these houses, only one story high, lived a man named Jetty, his wife, and three children. They were all drowned, and in fact had no chance of escape. In another garden Thomas Elston, his wife, and a child, were drowned. A house occupied by a man named Jenkinson was partly destroyed, and it is supposed that he lost his life”. Despite this the name Jenkinson does not appear in the list of victims produced by Chief Constable John Jackson and later reproduced in Harrison’s book. A search of the NBI showed only one male adult in 1864 that of William JENKINSON aged 47 buried on 20th March 1864 at St Mary’s Church in Sheffield but the name actually turned out to be JINKINSON. Having purchased his death certificate I was somewhat disappointed to see that the cause of death was not drowning. William died on 14th March 1864 at Hermitage Lane Ecclesall Bierlow of “Angina Pectoris” [medical term for chest pain or discomfort due to coronary heart disease]. The death was registered by Jane Jinkinson of Court 29 Pearl Street but the only entry for her in the 1861 census was living at ‘ Sunderland Street Bk’ with husband John and four sons. An account in the newspaper ‘The Doncaster, Nottingham & Lincoln Gazette Supplement’ dated Friday March 18th 1864 says ‘A man named Jenkinson who lived near Neepsend Lane’. In the 1861 census Oliver and Mary Ann JENKINSON were living at Neepsend Lane with 8 children and a grand son. Karen Hill has since proved that Oliver was her ancestor and it seems unlikely that anyone in Oliver’s family died in the flood. So, after all this, I tend to think reports at the time of the flood stating, “a house occupied by a man named Jenkinson was partly destroyed, and it is supposed that he lost his life” was actually incorrect but I do hope someone can prove me wrong! Thanks again Jeremy Best Regards Karen Lightowler Doncaster, South Yorkshire Researching the Sheffield Flood