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William Addy, baptised 1618, died 1695?, stenographer and writing-master, was baptized in Wath upon Dearne, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1618, the third son of John Addy (d. 1645), tanner and parish clerk, and Margaret Hanson.
Addy was the author of a system of shorthand published in 1685. The method, a modification of that of Jeremiah Rich, was so much practised that the Bible, the New Testament, and the Singing Psalms were published, according to its system, two years later. The 1695 edition of his work was entitled Stenographia, or the Art of Short-Writing compleated in a far more compendious methode than any yet extant It was engraved throughout. The Bible had a portrait of Addy, engraved by Sturt from a painting by Barker; and the same engraver executed the rest of the work. In subsequent editions of the Bible the preliminary leaves were changed, and the book dedicated to King William. Four further editions of Stenographia appeared between about 1688 and about 1725.
Rev. W. Alderson
Herbert Austin
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey .British engineer who invented the Bailey bridge
Robert John Bentley (1822-1890) was a son of Robert Bentley and grandson of Timothy Bentley of Bardsley, Lancashire, who founded Bentley's Brewery at Westgate, Rotherham. R. J. Bentley in his will set up a family trust to administer property which included both agricultural holdings and the brewery business with public house properties. The day-to-day management of all the properties appears to have been in the hands of the brewery managers. In 1850 Bentley was at Eastwood House, near Rotherham, and in 1867 living at Finningley Park, near Bawtry.
Samuel Birks, 1725-1825 »
Rev. W. Blazeby, B.A.(1832–1908).Read More »
Sandra Blockley, MBE
Benjamin Heywood Brooksbank - Benjamin Heywood Brooksbank was born on 2 February 1828.He was the son of Reverend Edward Hawke Brooksbank and Hannah Heywood.He held the office of Justice of the Peace for West Riding, Yorkshire.He lived in Tickhill.
Thomass William Burgess Channel Swimmer
George Button (1754-1822) was born at Rotherham He was converted as a young man and acted as a Methodist local preacher until 1779 when he entered the full itinerancy. He exercised an active circuit ministry until his death which occurred at Shaftsbury in Dorset. Source: Methodist Magazine 1822
Arthur Cooper Stonemason
William Cowan More »
David Cusack Footballer
Harold Davis The Great Alzana
Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer More »
William Thomas Freemantle, of Barbot Hall, Rotherham, was a bibliographer and book collector . He published, A bibliography of Sheffield and vicinity in the late 1700s
Gally-Knight of Langold and Firbeck
The Gatty Family of Ecclesfield and Hooton Roberts »
Rev. Joseph Gilbert, 1759-1852»
William Green, Schoolmaster »
Neil Hague, Footballer
Mike Hawthorne, Racing Driver
William of Killamarsh and London , Hewet family of Harthill and Shireoaks
William Hewett (1508–1567) Lord Mayor of London, son of Edmund Hewett, Born in Wales
Dr. John Hewett (1614–1658) fourth son of Thomas Hewett
Rev. John Hewet (d.1811) Rector of Harthill and Todwick
Spurley Hey, (1872-1930), educational administrator, was born on 31 March 1872 in Stocksbridge, Yorkshire. »
Alan Hodgkinson, MBE Goalkeeper & Coach
Ted Hughes » Poet Laureate
Joseph Hunter historian
Joseph Jones, President of the Miners' Federation, 1934
Jubb The family were originally from Mattersey, where in 1771 Thomas Jubb the elder was a yeoman and elder brother of a William Jubb deceased.
William Jubb of Austerfield, yeoman, and Martha, his wife, had one son Thomas Jubb the younger of Barton.
From the early 1800s it is recorded that a William Jubb the elder lived at Herringthorpe, he had a son Henry Jubb .
In 1866 James Shemeld Jubb was living at Morthen Hall, in the Parish of Whiston and in 1866 Henry Jubb lived at Moorgate House, Rotherham. Read More »
James Edward MacFarlane 1930-1985 »
William Mason More »
Frances Miles of Firbeck Hall
Michael C. Newsome, Actor
Albert Nightingale Footballer
Edward Osborne of Kiveton (1596-1647)
Peregrine Osborne (1658–1729), second Duke of Leeds
Sir Thomas Osborne(1632–1712) First Earl of Danby, Marquis of Carmarthen and Duke of Leeds , son of Sir Edward Osborne of Kiveton
Rev. Clement Perrot
George and John Platt, architects.
Sandy Powell
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Ebenezer Rhodes »
James Ross of Thrybergh »
Major General Anthony St Leger Read more »
Robert Sanderson (1587–1663) , Bishop of Lincoln
John Shephard (1852 - 1940)
Peter Stubs (1756-1806) established himself as a file maker in Warrington. The business expanded to embrace a wide range of tools and in 1832 the Company acquired the Holmes Works of Joshua Walker and Co. as a base from which to supply high quality steel to Warrington. The site of Holmes Hall was purchased and a new steelworks was erected in 1842. Initially known as the Warrington Steel Works, near Rotherham, later became known as Holmes Steel Works. This was the first works in the area to have a direct railway connection (to the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway). Steelmaking ceased in 1958 when the premises were sold to the neighbouring company of J. J. Habershon and Son Ltd
Norman Thornton (1896-1984), confectionery manufacturer. »
Sir Edward Samuel Walker, was born at Aston Hall on 17/2/1799, son of Joseph Walker of Eastwood, Rotherham, and Derbyshire. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Need of Arnold, Notts. Educated at Rugby and St. John's College Cambridge. He was a partner in the "Lead House" of Walker, Parker & Co., Chester, managing their factory there and at Baglit. He was Mayor of Chester in 1838, being knighted while in office, in 1841 and 1848. JP for Chester and Cheshire: Deputy Lieutenant for Nottingham and Flint; High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
His first wife was Frances Valentine Stevens, daughter of George Stevens of Old Windsor Lodge. They had two sons, Edward, and Frederick and four daughters Marion, Fanny, Sophia, and Harriet. Frances died in 1864. Sir Edward died on 15/1/1874 at Berry Hill; his will was proven at Nottingham 23/2/1874. In it he left substantial annuities not only to his wife but also to her mother, Mary Hallowes, who survived him by less than two years.
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Edward Williams Master of Rotherham Academy, was born 14th November, 1750 at Glamelayd, Denbigh. His father intended him to have a future as clergyman in the established church. However, in 1771 he became a member of the Congregational church in Denbigh, where he commenced speaking in public, and soon was sent to further his studies at Abergavenny. He was ordained at Ross in Herefordshire in 1776, moving the next year to Oswestry. In 1792 he went to Birmingham where he stayed for three years until receiving an invitation to superintend the Independent Academy of Rotherham in 1795. He remained here until his death on 9th March 1813. He was not much reknowned as a preacher, his delivery was cold and inanimate, however he acquired repute by the merit of his publications which included An Abridgement of Dr. Owen's Exposition of the Epistle of Hebrews
Horace Oswald Williams Footballer
Les Williams (1935-2006) Footballer
Baron Thomas Williams of Barnburgh (1888–1967).»
In 1885 Stephen Wilson was engaged to transport troops during the Riel Rebellion. He took up a homestead at Springbank, then moved to Red Deer where he farmed and operated the Alberta Hotel and the Windsor Hotel until 1914. Wilson was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England and died at Red Deer in 1939. He was married in England in 1880, but his wife and two children died before he came to Calgary in 1885. In 1904 at Red Deer, he was married to Sarah Anderson, who was born in 1878 in Ireland and died in 1947 at Red Deer. There were five children: William, Samuel, Catherine, Beatrice, and Lillian.
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