The following have made welcome and valuable additions to the site so far…
Jeanette Brentnall ….. on the Brentnalls. (And see her work on Elijah and Hiram Brentnall at www.Scribd.com)
Sylvia Ball ….. and the Balls of Burr Lane.
Billy Boy … on the Tathams of Nottingham Road and the York/Riley family in South Street …. and valuable detective work there!!
John Beniston … on the Beniston family.
Jane Gott … on William Armstrong and family.
Anita Furlong … on the Mystery Henshaws of Chapel Street, and a photo containing her father Robert Henshaw
John Goulder for providing detail on the Leadbetter family and marriages at Radford, and more recently, comments on the Tilson and Columbine families.
S. Hawkins … on the Hawkins family in Ontario.
Ruth Gawthorpe … on the Ebberns of the Poplar Inn
Alan Smith … on the Frost family of Hunger Hill
Martyn Taylor … on the Hodgkinsons at the Market Place
Peter Szewc for discussion of publican Thomas Marson
Jim Jeffery … on Julia Rason Warner
John Daykin … on the Daykin family history and the Birch family
Ann Crewe … on the family of George Clay Smith.
James White … for provoking more detail on Smith’s Bank of Bath Street.
Martin Harvey … on the Harvey family at the Three Horse Shoes
Dianne Timmerman … on the Walker family of Park Road .. and Iowa!!
Brenda Sweeney … on a branch of the Scattergood family
Pam Bates … for valuable additions to the family history of Amos and Sarah Beardsley, the Goddards, and Ebberns, and for her school photos and many others
Carol Smith … on the Morley family
Pete Dawson … for a load of material from his family ‘scrapbook’
Peter Coles … for a nice postscript on Edwin Wragg
Simon Hollingworth … for the Hollingworth family detail
Jon Baldwin … for detail on Thomas Machin
Jim Beardsley has taken many photos of Ilkeston and has allowed a selection of these to appear on the site. My sincere thanks to him.
Jim Morse … for sharing family photos and prompting a section on Bartholomew Wilson and his family.
John J Stakes … his notes on the Tatham family
Natalie Smithson … for more on the Brocklehurst family
Kate Miller … for her information of the Frost and Burrows families of Nottingham Road
Keith Sandy … for information on Elizabeth Hardy of Baptist Chapel Yard (and her relatives)
Martin Jackson … for filling a gap in the Paxton family history
Sarah Gatley … for adding to the School Days scrapbook (Day 3)
Andrew Knighton … for sending several personal extracts of information on John Wombell, Mrs. Nellie Gormley of Chaucer School, and the Stack Yard near Pelham Street. Also a photo of butcher Thomas Ebbern. And several more photos to be found at School Days. And many more items and information. (see latest updates for 2019)
Phil Henshaw … for his short history of uncle Len and his account of Arthur Reuben Johnson
Heidi Elbediwy … for her work on the Sanders and Wheeldon families
Mike Hallam … for his notes on the Hallam family
Dave Ball … for sharing his family photos
Sally Kent (nee Yorke) … for information on her great great grandfather David York/Yorke
Jonathan Morton … for further information on the Maltby family
Rick Henshaw … for a great profile of George William Henshaw (1921-1999)
Roger Purcell … for sharing his research of his family tree
Tony Gale … for informationon photographer William Gillam
Thelma Wigley … for Derbyshire detail of the Wigley family
Joanne Ouchterlonie … for her extensive Howe family history
Anita Jackson … for her valuable research on the Potter family of Queen Street
Peter Cave … for taking time to explore the life of Edgar Chadwick
Karen Masters … for more on the family of One-armed Tom Bostock
Diana Osman … for sharing her Shaw and Cooke family histories
Celia Renshaw et al … for donating part of her work on William Hawkins
Chris Willis … for his family photo of Samuel Flinders
Gary Wilkinson … for some terrific work on the Paxton family
Jennifer Floyd … and her excellent work on the Ilkeston Salvation Army
John Daniel … for his notes on the Mathers and elsewhere
Nigel Downes … for his work on the Norman family
John Paling … for his outstanding website on the Letters of Thomas Jackson
Mo Davies … for her additions to the Goddard saga
And thank you to the several others who have taken time to add a comment.
