Woodville - Surname & Other Interests

Woodville - Surname & Other Interests Woodville Surname & Other Interests

If you would like to add your Woodville surname or other historical interests to this web site, please Email me. I can also insert hyper-links from the entries in the Trade Directory Listings to your web site or contact details. If you are able to provide some genealogical or historical information about your family and its relationship with Church Gresley, this would also be most welcome.

Index to Surnames ATKIN(S) BAGNALL BARNETT BENFIELD BENNETT CLARK COLCLOUGH COLLIER COX DAWKINS FAIRBROTHER HALL HARRISON HO(U)LT HULL LUNN MACKIE MILLER NEAL(E) PAYNE PEGG REDFERN SALMON SHAW SMITH SWEET TOOTH TOPLISS WOOD WOODWARD WORRALL WRAGG Index to Subjects Bretby Art Pottery Methodist Sunday School St Stephen's Daily & Sunday School Wragg's Pipe Works

The Henry PAYNE Story Chapter 2: Woodville & the Workhouse, by Brett Payne of Tauranga, New Zealand
My gg-grandfather Henry PAYNE (1842-1907) lived in Woodville for a short while in the late 1840s and early 1850s. During this time, he and his mother had contact with several Woodville families, who may or may not have been related. Other surnames mentioned - and of particular interest to me - include ATKIN(S), BAGNALL, BENFIELD, HALL, HO(U)LT, LUNN, SALMON, SWEET. Henry was one of the pupils who formed the first intake of St Stephen's Daily & Sunday School, on Wednesday 1st March 1848 - follow this link to see his Scholar's Certificate.

William Joseph MACKIE (1842-1898) Manager of Wragg's Pipe Works, by Malcolm Smith of Cheshire, England
Malcolm's contribution relates the story of his great-grandfather, William Joseph MACKIE (1842-1898), who had a longstanding association with the Wragg's Pipe Works in Woodville. Other surnames mentioned include: WORRALL, REDFERN, COLLIER, BARNETT, PEGG, HARPUR CREWE, TOPLISS, NEAL(E), HARRISON, WOODWARD, COLCLOUGH, HULL, WRAGG, MILLER.

DAWKINS family of Woodville, by Phil Marshall of NSW, Australia
Richard DAWKINS m: Sarah
|- Richard DAWKINS (b. 1817 Packington) m: 1842 Swarkestone Ann WOOD (b. 1822 Swarkestone)
   |- William (b. c1847) Collier of Woodville m: 1873 Woodville Sarah Ann SMITH (b. 1855 Woodville; dau of Elijah SMITH, Labourer, Potter & Collier of Castle Gresley & Woodvile, & Sarah née WOOD)
      |- Frances (b. c1875) m: 1895 Woodville John COX (b. c1871 Seckington WAR)
      |- William (b. c1877)
   |- Henry (Harry) (b. 1875) Stoker & Stationary Engine Driver of Granville Street, Swadlincote m: Ann (b. c1850)
      |- Hannah (b. c1871)
      |- Emma (b. c1875)
      |- Rosa (b. c1877)
      |- George T (b. c1881) m: Lily
         |- Edward (1906-1906)
      |- Harry (b. c1885)
   |- Samuel (b. c1851)
   |- Ruth (b. c1852) m: 1873 Woodville Thomas FAIRBROTHER (b. c1852) Coal Miner of High Street, Ashby De La Zouch
   |- Ann
   |- Frank (b. c1859)
   |- George (b. c1861)
   |- Samuel (Sam) (b. 1865) Coal Miner of Woodville m: Elizabeth SHAW (b. c1866)
      |- Catherine (1886-1964) m: George BENNETT (b. 1886) => Descendants incl. Phil Marshall - see also Church Gresley Surname Interests Page
      |- Selina (b. 1888)
      |- Samuel (b. 1890)
      |- Jane (b. 1900)
   |- Frederick (Fred) (b. c1866)

(Left) George BENNETT (b. 1886) (Right) Catherine BENNETT née DAWKINS (1186-1964)

CLARK family of Woodville, by Richard Fletcher of Bramhall, nr Stockport, Cheshire, England
Richard's great-grandfather, Abner (Archie) CLARK, was in charge of the Art & Glazing Department at Bretby Art Pottery under Henry TOOTH in the early 20th Century. He had some talent as an oil painter, and ran classes from his home in Burton Road. He was secretary of the Woodville Methodist Sunday School for many years, as well as some time organist, and was succeeded by his son, John William. He died in 1940, aged 85. Any information about him or the family would be most welcome. Contact Richard Fletcher for further details.
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