Genealogy & Family History

Notes & Queries

Here is some information relating to Rotherham Families found as a result of EMail enquiries. More detailed Family Histories and Notes at:

Alphabetical Index

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

Abdy

Auty

Auty of Wickersley and Thrybergh

Robert Auty (1914–1978)

Robert Auty, philologist, was born on 10 October 1914 at 31 Tooker Road, Rotherham.He was youngest of four children of George Auty, headmaster,and his wife, Martha Louise, née Richards. Educated at Rotherham Grammar School and Cambridge University, he gained a major scholarship in modern languages at Gonville and Caius College. He married Kathleen Marjorie (b. 1910/11), a private secretary at the War Office, London, the daughter of John Milnes-Smith, They had a son and adopted a daughter

Badger

Badger Family of Dronfield and Rotherham. Read More

Cutforthay

Drabble

Drabble of Harthill

Fretwell

Fretwell of Maltby and Braithwell

Garland

Garland of Todwick

Gillatt

Thomas GILLAT/GILLOT, hatter, died 1838

Grant of Harthill

Robert Hall(1890–1955)

He was Chief Constable of police at Rotherham. He married Florence Irene, née Turner (1894–1975). Their daughter, Dame Catherine Mary Hall (1922–1996), nurse, was born in Hollwood Road, Sheffield, on 19 December 1922

Hanson

Hanson of Bawtry

Herring

Herring of Rotherham, Treeton, Whiston and Wickersley

Heseltine

Edward John Heseltine

Harold Edward Hickmott(1881–1947)

A motor bus operator, he was born on 8 May 1881 at Marden, Moorgate Grove, Rotherham, son of Edward Hickmott, master grocer, and his wife, Rebecca (Née Dawes).

Ingall

Ingall of Braithwell, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Throapham

Ireland

Ireland of Beighton and Rotherham

Sydney Gladwin Jebb (1871-1950)

Eldest son of Joshua Gladwin Jebb (died 1901) of Barnby Moor House, Notts. (Jebb Trust estate) whose father, Sir Joshua Jebb, had a sister Frances Harriott who married in 1829 William Miles of Clifton, Glos. She died without issue in 1877 leaving her estates, which she had purchased at Firbeck Hall, to her nephew, Henry Gladwin Jebb (son of Sir Joshua's younger brother Samuel Henry), with remainder to the eldest son of Joshua Gladwin Jebb. The Firbeck estates formed the Miles Trust and were inherited by Sydney Gladwin Jebb on the death of Henry Gladwin Jebb in 1898.

Jenkin

James Spalton Jenkin, at one time, licensee of the Blue Bell Inn, Market Place Rotherham.

Knight

Henry John Knight, Surgeon & General Practioner

Lindley

Lindley of Wickersley, Harthill, Todwick and Aston

Lister

Lister of Bawtry

Lound

Mason

John Mason Watchmaker & Jeweller

Merrill

Merrill of Aston, Wales and Whiston

Milner

Milner of Royston, Barnsley

Moulson

Moulson of Handsworth and Brampton Bierlow Rotherham

Newbold

Newbould

Palmer

Elizabeth (d. 24 April 1784), the eldest daughter of Charles Palmer, of Thurnscoe Hall, Yorkshire, married on 16 June 1765, George Wollaston (1738–1826), a mathematical lecturer at Sidney Sussex College. They had one daughter

Rawson

Rawson of Tickhill

William Ridgway

William Ridgeway of Rotherham, butcher, living in 1778, deceased by 1827. Daughter: Lydia Norman of Rotherham, Ann married John Barker Marsh of Ickles. Bridge Inn, erected by William Ridgway and now divided into 2 dwellings, 5 adjoining cottages, also erected by Ridgway, and a nearby butcher's shop with slaughter house etc.

John Donald Rose (1911-1976)

Rose, an Industrial chemist, was born at Greasbrough, Rotherham, on 2 January 1911 His parents: Rimington Wilson Rose (d. 1959), schoolmaster (the son of John Rose, colliery engineer), and his wife, Martha Ellen Minnie (d. 1976), daughter of John Dawson, representative for a Rotherham foundry. He attended Rotherham Grammar School and graduated BA in 1932, from Jesus College, Oxford. He died in 1976 at Buckinghamshire,

Genealogy & Family History

Notes & Queries

Alphabetical Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

Abdy

Auty

Robert Auty (1914–1978)

Badger

Beighton

Billam

Birks

Boomer

Bower

Brook