Genealogy & Family History
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Here is some information relating to Rotherham Families. More detailed Family Histories and Notes at:
- Treeton Web
- Whiston Web
- Wickersley Web
- Ulley Web
Abdy
Abdy marriages at Rotherham
Allport
Thomas Allport
Anlaby
Anlaby of Etton and Thurcroft
Athey
Athey of Stainton, Ravenfield, Rotherham and Whiston
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
Bacon
Bacon Marriages
Badger
Thomas Badger, Solicitor and Coroner. Read More
Barber
Barber of Kirk Burton and Ecclesfield
Beighton
Beighton of Sheffield
Bell
Bell Marriages
Billam
Billam of Sheffield, Harthill, Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Birks
Birks of Barnsley, Maltby, Treeton
Boler
Boler of Braithwell and Treeton
Boomer
Boomer of Rotherham, Haworth Hall and Whiston
Bower
Brook
George BROOK, huckster & Carrier,of Westgate, died 1854
Bullock
Bullock of Unstone, Dronfield
Cade
Cade of Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Slade Hooton
Cawthorne
Cawthorne Marriages from 1799-1835
Chrimes
Chrimes of Rotherham
Coventry
Thomas Lord Coventry (1578–1640)
Crofts
Crofts of Everton and Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Cutforthay
Cutforthay of Rotherham and Braithwell
Dent
Dent from 1616
Drabble
Drabwell
Drabwell of Conisbrough & Thurcroft
Fisher
Fisher of of Treeton, Thrybergh & Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Fretwell
Fretwell of Maltby and Braithwell
Garland
Gibbs
Gibbs of Rotherham
Gillatt
Thomas Gillatt/Gillott, hatter, died 1838
Grant
Grant of Harthill
Guest
Guest of Blythe, Maltby and Laughton-en-le-Morthen
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
Hallows Hamer
Samuel Hallows Hamer(1728-1787) of Rotherham attorney at law m. 1747 Mansfield to Mary Brown(1717-1779) of Mansfield
Hanson
Harris
Harris of Rotherham
Hawley
Herring
Herring of Rotherham, Treeton, Whiston and Wickersley
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).
Hirst
Hirst of Clough House
Hoyle
Hoyle of Hooton Levett
Hutchinson
Hutchinson of Rotherham
Ingall
Ingall of Braithwell, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Throapham
Ireland
Ireland of Beighton and Rotherham
Jebb
Jebb of Chesterfield and Firbeck
Jenkin
James Spalton Jenkin, at one time, licensee of the Blue Bell Inn, Market Place Rotherham.
Kimpland
Arthur Kimpland(1711-1774) esq., Collector of Excise died 1774 aged 63
Knight
Henry John Knight, Surgeon & General Practioner
Laughton
Laughton of Howarth
Limb
Limb of Thurcroft
Lindley
Lindley of Wickersley, Harthill, Todwick and Aston
Lister
Lound
Lound of Staveley, Derbyshire and Rotherham
Ludlam
Ludlam from 1584, in the Rotherham and Sheffield area
Mason
John Mason Watchmaker & Jeweller
Merrill
Merrill of Aston, Wales and Whiston
Milner
Milner of Rockley Hall & Burton Grange
Moulson
Moulson of Handsworth and Brampton Bierlow Rotherham
Newbold
Newbold Marriages
Newbould
Newbould of Sheffield
Nightingale
Nightingale of Rotherham from 1721
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
Pashley
Pashley of Retford and Stainton Hall
Pearson
Thomas Pearson of Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Rawson
Rawson of Tickhill
Revitt
Revitt of Stannington and Carr
Rhodes
Rhodes of Epworth and Slade Hooton
William Ridgway
William Ridgeway of Rotherham, butcher, living in 1778, deceased by 1827. Daughter: Lydia Norman of Rotherham, Ann Ridgeway 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,
Salkield
Salkield of Tickhill
Salt
Salt of Staffs and Rotherham
Saman/Samon
Saman Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Maltby and Whiston
Sayles
Sayles of Brookhouse and Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Seaton
Seaton of Blythe
Shepard
Shepard of Thurcroft, Todwick and Hardwick
Sorby
Sorby of Attercliffe
Spoone
Spoone/Spoyne of Sheffield
Steedman
Steedman of Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Stones
Stones of Hemsworth and Mosborough
Totty
Totty of Wentworth
Turner
Turner of Ulley, Brookhouse and Laughton-en-le-Morthen
Verelst
Verelst of Aston Hall
Walker
Walker of Grenoside and Rotherham
Ward
Ward of Throapham Letwell and Firbeck
Wasteney
Wigfield
Wigfield of Rotherham
White and Woolaston White
White and Woolaston White of Suffolk and Wallingwells
Woodyeare
Woodyeare of Crookhill, Conisbrough
Wordsworth
Wordsworth of Water Hall and Swathe Hall
Wortley
Wortley of Kimberworth
Yelland
Yelland of Aston and Rotherham
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