The FLETCHER family

from Derbyshire

and Nottingham

A rare shot of my mum Evelyn with her FLETCHER grandparents, her aunt Annie and probably great uncle Charles in the centre foreground and a cousin behind her

Her parents wedding with Tom and Ada FLETCHER, plus the TODD family

And the entries in the FLETCHER family bible that started all this...!

FLETCHER Tree
John FLETCHER     = Catherine BULLOCK
of Denby, Derbys? ¦ of Denby	
b ?               ¦ b ?
                  ¦ m 5 Dec 1797, Debby	
__________________¦ 
¦	
Henry      = Elizabeth GRUNDY
of Denby   ¦ of Stanton-by-Dale, Derbys
b 1797     ¦ b 1805
chr 26 Mar ¦ chr 29 Sept 1805
1797	   ¦
Park Keeper¦
___________¦	
¦
John       = Ann COPESTICK
of Spondon ¦ of Wednesbury, Staffs
b 1829	   ¦ b 1829
Chr 1 Nov  ¦ m 6 May 1851, Derby
1829       ¦ Silk-worker
Railway    ¦ d 4 Jan 1910
Guard	   ¦ Long Eaton
d 27 May   ¦ Int Long Eaton Cemetery
1884       ¦ Grave No 278
Long Eaton ¦			
___________¦_____________________________________________________________cont>
¦	   ¦              ¦            ¦     ¦        ¦
child A    Samuel     =? Henry     = Eliza   Child C  Thomas            = Ada Maud BURTON
of London  Grundy        of Risley ¦ Ann     of       Thompson          ¦ of Nottingham
b 1855     of Islington  b 1860    ¦ of      London?  of Nottingham     ¦ b 26 Oct 1870
d 16 Aug   b 1859        Engine    ¦ Beeston b 1861   b 20 Jan 1865     ¦ m 7 Jan 1880
1864       Engine Driver driver    ¦ b 1860  d 28 Feb Chief Telegraphist¦ Derby
Nottingham d 28 Sep 1905 d 15 Oct  ¦ m 1878? 1870     St Pancras        ¦ d 1 Sep 1946
	   Long Eaton    1915      ¦ d?      London?  d 23 Oct 1935     ¦ Hornsey,
                         Nottingham¦                  Broom, Beds       ¦ London
                                   ¦                                    ¦
                   ________________¦_______________                     ¦
                   ¦               ¦              ¦                     ¦
                   Maria           Harry          Caroline Anne         ¦                        ¦
________________________________________________________________________¦
¦         ¦                         ¦
Agnes     Annie      = Edward PLUME Edith         = Gerald TODD
of Derby  of Derby   ¦ of London?   of Derby      ¦ (see TODD details)
b 1889    b Sep 1890 ¦ b            b 12 Jan 1892 ¦
d 1890    d 1960     ¦              Derby         ¦
          Hornsey    ¦              d 7 Mar 1969  ¦
                                    Walton, Lancs ¦
    >cont_______________________________________________
         ¦                            ¦                ¦
         Charles         = Eliza Anne James            Alfred Chriss = Catherine
         of Kentish Town ¦ of?        of               of 
         b 1868          ¦            Kentish Town     Kentish Town    
         Engine driver   ¦            b 1871           b 1874/5
         (Royal Scot)    ¦            Music Shop owner Commercial
         d 7 Aug 1937    ¦            d 28 Mar 1928    Traveller
         Long Eaton      ¦            Long Eaton       d 18 May 1917
         ________________¦                             Long Eaton
         ¦
         Charles Edward?
                                      

The FLETCHER family worked for Midland Railway and moved extensively between Derby and London, and Nottingham and London, before finally moving back to Derbyshire and settling in Long Eaton at Midland Terrace, which was owned by the company. My great grandfather, Thomas Thompson FLETCHER, moved to London where he became Chief Telegraphist at St. Pancras and his family married and settled there - the reason for my being a north Londoner! His father, John, started life as a sawyer, probably with his father who was a park keeper, perhaps at the Derby arboritum. John's father-in-law, John COPESTICK (COPESTAKE), was a railway guard and in due course John became the foreman of the Midland Railway goods department at Nottingham, near the Meadows where the family lived in Queens Drive and Thomas was born.

 

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