This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Darbyshire Derbyshire Hancock Hampson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VUh.2ACIB/129.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Ian, I received those photos last night. Thank you. It is great to see them. I've only had a quick look through them and will have a more leisurely look over the weekend. Unfortunately, family and work committments take most of my time during the week. I really do appreciate allowing me to share those photos. Its great to put a face to a name on a chart. If you are interested, I can send a photo of James Hampson and wife Mary (Derbyshire) Hampson to you over the weekend. Regarding your Derbyshire of Winton, I do not know. My Darbyshire/Derbyshire family start around the very late 1600s in Ashton upon Mersey, also some are at Sale, Cheshire. I assume there is a link to families in Flixton and Urmston but have yet to establish a definite link. In the end, I assume they are all related in some way. Regarding Beatrice Gertrude Hancock who married James Derbyshire in 1918, I have dug out that marriage entry. Beatrice is 38yrs, spinster of 1 Cavendish Rd., Urmston and the daughter of Isaac Edward Hancock dec'd farm labourer. Christian name looks like Isaac but I'm not 100% certain. Incidentally James Derbyshire was residing at 46 Pinnington Lane Stretford, which is where James & Mary Hampson lived for many years before their deaths. One of the witnesses to the marriage was Emily Hampson, a daughter of James & Mary and elder sister to my Minnie. The other witness was Henry Hancock. I do not know why James & Beatrice married so late in life, it was the 1st marriage for James too, given that they knew each other since 1898. In 1920 James Derbyshire remarries. He is a widower of 46 Pinnington Lane Stretford and married Annie Kearns of 18 Lacy Street Stretford. Over the weekend I will assemble what little information I have on Jonathan and Catherine Hampson, parents of William, the later is the father of our James & Joseph. Yes, I don't envy their circumstances regarding Diamond Court. It is a wonder that so many survived and you and I are here. best wishes Maxine