Sources: Maud Hollingworth, Harvey Cross, Bagshaw’s Derbyshire 1846 and MM
‘Inhospitable people’ Ward notes.
Harvey Cross: Harvey a drummer, because he was courting Chris;
used to practise till 2 am
granddad was manager at the pit, father 1st deputy, Mr Churchill
2nd – he lived on No Man’s
father was a pork butcher in Smalley, then to Moor
granddad used to be a coach driver for Lord at Eastwood
Harvey left school at 13, worked for Fred Edwards on Sat nights as a conductor, also 7.30 am to 7 pm for 2/6 per week, Co-op bread
delivery 13/5 per week;
1 year later back to grocery 10/-, then to Cotmanhay; walked to work (she did say they were notes......)
For many decades Harvey was a Church Warden at All Saints, Dale Abbey
Maud Hollingworth:
Maud’s mother’s grandmother built White Cottage
father’s uncle John built the Carpenter’s Arms
father’s cousin built S end Maud’s cottage (now ‘The Croft’)
sister Lily, Lionel Fryer’s mother, organist
mother married 1884
ancestor Revd Joseph Hollingworth (1781 - 1836), Wesleyan minister; he had brothers
William, John and Benjamin and a sister Elizabeth who died in her youth (MM)
At the dissolution of the abbey (1538) the canons included Messrs. Henry Cross, Wheatley, Powtell and Thatcher