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Photocopy of newspaper cutting from 1976 giving obituary of R E Thelwall, with information on his life and interests. These included research into Mellor Church Font, Robin Hood Picking Rods and authorship of his book "The Andrew Family and…

Material relating to the Sigley family :1. Two page typed document "Extracts from Mr Tom Sigley's acccount of his family and people he knew in Mellor" . These include the Sidebottom sisters, John Adie, Miss Pridham, the Nadin, Taylor and Bradbury…

Handwritten family tree for the Savil family starting with John Savil 1719 - 1914 highlighting information from Parish Register and Memorial Stones in Mellor Churchyard.

Material relating to Thomas Ratcliffe and family :1. Black & White & colour photographs of Ratcliffe family members, gravestones, properties including Priestfield from early 19002. Census records, email correspondence (2013) with Stephen Till…

Handwritten letter from John Paterson 1992 with memories from him and his wife Margaret McClelland who was born in Mellor. Her father had been a founder member of the Conservative Club and at one time was the agent for the constituency. John and…

Correspondence with Christine Harradine 2013 with information on family history, with photographs of her grandfather Adam Cuthbert Morris and his connection with Brabyns Hall during WW1. Details of his life after his convalescence there also…

Typed pedigree of the early Derbyshire Branch of the De Meluers of Mellor starting with Simon de Meluer, Forester of Fee of Lanendale 1200 to Thomas Chetham who married Ann Strode in 1770 and moved away from Mellor

Email correspondence from 2012 with Eileen Redman, relating to research into her Great great grandfather Thomas Hardy who died at the Garden House in 1876. He was a joiner who had moved from Manchester to Marple between 1861 and 1871, possibly to…

Material relating to the Hambleton Family from Mellor and USA: 1. Correspondence with Betty Hambleton 1986 - 1988 and Shiela Dixon 1992 : Family geneology.2. Research notes, Birth, Marriages and deaths in Mellor and USA (1836 - 1881). 3. Photocopies…

Material on the Hadfields of Mellor :
1. Correspondence from 1991-95 with Roger Hadfield relating to family research.
2. 8 page short paper on Hadfields of Mellor by RH 1991.
3. Miscellaneous hand written research notes, maps and family trees

Letter from John Aspinall, Surrey dated 2001 giving information on his great grandfather William Aspinall, who moved to Compstall in the 1840's to work in the mill. Also a 10 page essay "My Ancestors" written by him in 1999 (including photographs)…