Early Families of the River Marron
by Chris Dickinson
In progress
I have notes on 18 families along the Marron. There will be many more that I know nothing about.
Each family takes me a month or so to get the basics written out. That is without tasks like family trees and and probate images. There are only five reasonably basic accounts here out of 18 - so I'll be into 2019 before finishing.
Technical note about links
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Sources
Most of my 'original' material (photocopies, registers, books) are in storage at the moment, so not available. Some of these I have as images or transcripts on my computer. Some are recorded in my computer notes. I'll fill in and make adjustments to these accounts when I move the storage back home.
Introduction
This is a mishmash of family histories along the flow of the River Marron and its valley.
The river itself is created from the confluence of a number of becks around Asby in Arlecdon, flowing north as a boundary between the parishes of Dean and Lamplugh, and through the villages of Ullock and Branthwaite in Dean, before feeding into the River Derwent.
The family histories are largely seventeenth-century (which happens to be my period of interest), and are largely devoted to the upstream section south of Ullock. This river itself supported two principal types of activity: farming and textiles.
Ullock was dominated by weaving, Lowmoor for dyeing and Walk Mill for fulling.
The histories are entirely uncoordinated, written at different times for different purposes and at different levels of research. They are all ongoing. My main aim at the moment is simply to get the data online as quickly as possible - after that, I'll try to standardise them and to present some more general conclusions.
The families below are listed from north to south, so flowing against the river.
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