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Title: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Saturday 05 April 08 19:31 BST (UK)

Looking for a possible location of Hill Top Farm Codnor & Loscoe with a Samuel and Elizabeth Woolley as Farmers.
1881 census shows next dwelling as on (I think) Goose Lane .

Any help will be gratefully recieved

Woolley

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: ricky1 on Saturday 05 April 08 20:00 BST (UK)

Hi Woolley
Couldnt see Hill Top farm, but found Hill Top, which it to the right of Codnor

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55113&sheetid=2266&ox=3794&oy=1184&zm=1&czm=1&x=11&y=186

ricky

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Saturday 05 April 08 20:15 BST (UK)

Thanks Ricky,
This looks like of those dead ends, the farm reduced from 200 acres to 8 over 40 years, so could well have been on Hilltop

Cheers

Allan

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: ricky1 on Saturday 05 April 08 20:40 BST (UK)

Hi Allan

Your welcome,

regards
ricky

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: willow154 on Saturday 05 April 08 20:53 BST (UK)

Dear Allan,
I recently had to find the home of one of my ancestors, in Ilkeston, and went to the library there.
The library has its own local history section and has many resources which might help you track down Hill Top Farm:
Maps (various decades and areas)
Local newspapers on microfilm
Rates books
Local books on the history of Ilkeston and surrounding areas - Heanor and Codnor should come under these
etc
I have always found the staff very helpful, not only when I visit personally, but also in responding to phone calls and letters.
They usually only charge for photcopying costs.
The telephone number is:
01159 301104
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
 Paulene :)
P.S. I'll be interested to know if you track it down.
Just thought, I'm sure Heanor has a local history society - should be on the web. There's always a possiblity that someone with local knowledge might have come across it.   Good luck!

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Saturday 05 April 08 20:57 BST (UK)

HI again Ricky,

Your Link to the map got me thinking so I used google maps on the suggested area and what do I find but Goose Lane leading to what was HillTop Farm and now is Ormonde Field Golf and Country Club, wonder if the main building was the original farmhouse ?

Just noticed your post willow,

Thanks for that info, will definitely prove useful, I.ve still a lot of ancestors to chase down

Cheers

Allan

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: ricky1 on Sunday 06 April 08 00:07 BST (UK)

Hi Allan

didnt think about using google map, that was good idea :)

ricky

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: willow154 on Sunday 06 April 08 00:53 BST (UK)

Hi again Allan,
Looks as if you're getting there!
Just remembered a wonderful site that will, I hope give you much pleasure in giving you a feel of what the area was like all those years ago:
www.picturethepast.org.uk
And, if you're lucky, you might find someone or some place to do with your own research - lets hope so.
Anyway, hope you enjoy looking through it.
Kind regards,
Paulene :)
P.S. There's even a Wooley's Farm, Alfreton Road, Codnor ;D

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Sunday 06 April 08 19:39 BST (UK)

Thanks to you both for your help and encouragement on this one.

Will try  the Heanor Local History but looks like I'll have to leave the online searching and start visiting the area to get any further.

Cheers

Allan

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: tigger4 on Tuesday 13 May 08 05:00 BST (UK)

Hi Allen
I don't know whether this will help you but my grandmother lived at Hill Top Farm in Ashover.
Deb

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Tuesday 13 May 08 16:16 BST (UK)

Thanks for that but thats another Hill top Farm up the road from Heanor

That's what I find fascinating about family research, how people from the same area just spread all over the world.

Cheers Woolley

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Thursday 19 March 09 21:58 GMT (UK)

For Completeness

Thanks to Heanor Local Society

http://www.codnor.info/gooselane.php

Allan

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: willow154 on Friday 20 March 09 00:54 GMT (UK)

Great result, Allan - so pleased for you  :D
Paulene :)

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Friday 20 March 09 19:42 GMT (UK)

Thanks Willlow

Still don't know whether to be elated or depressed, I,ve just been given access to a tree which takes the line back to 1600 in that area.Still....... lots of follow up research to be done

Bye for now

Woolley

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: willow154 on Friday 20 March 09 19:59 GMT (UK)

Lucky thing - if only! ;D

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: ladyjane1961 on Monday 13 June 11 15:32 BST (UK)

Hi
Have just commenced my Woolley family history. 
Am trying to track an Archibald Woolley, listed on my fathers (Norman Woolley) birth certificate 26.6.36.  Archibald is listed as Master Jeweller on my fathers birth certificate, but Watch & Clock Repairer on my fathers marriage certificate in 1960, and also deceased.
My fathers parents (Archibald Woolley & Emma Jane Shaw) never married.
We immigrated to Australia from the UK in 1966, my father has since passed away and have only now decided to trace our heritage ...
Do u have any information on the Woolley family from this area?
Regards
WarriorQueen1961

Title: Re: Hill Top Farm - WOOLLEY
Post by: woolley on Friday 17 June 11 20:30 BST (UK)

Hi,

Suggest you start a new topic on this so it gets noticed.

Re Norman Woolley

2 entries
Name                       mother    Area reg
SHAW  Norman        Shaw       Liverpool N.  8b 660  Sep 1936
WOOLLEY  Norman  Shaw       Liverpool N.  8b 660  Sep 1936

Which ?


You  really need more info to get a result ie Area, district etc


Which one