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I can add to this that I am hoping the the Will of Thomas Burton of Bradbourne might have information to confirm whether he was the Thomas born c1733 youngest son of John Burton of Bradbourne who died 1776. Thomas inherited the farm at Bradbourne.

The other information I am hoping to find from the Will is  whether Thomas of Ashbourne was the husband of Elizabeth and father of Edward b1771, Ann b 1774 and Thomas b1776. The latter is the potential father of the Thomas Burton of Ashbourne who belongs to my DNA match.

Thank you Hanes. That is very helpful. I did try to find the Sprinks last year but wasn't overly confident I found the right place.

The other option was Hartington where I did find a John Millward born 1759 who happened to have married in Tissington in 1782 to an Elizabeth Saunders. This information was from trees in Ancestry and I did not note the sources.

Looking at the Parish boundary for Burslem I noted the number of places with the name Sneyd near the boundary. That may be the name that links my Tissington Friths to the Millwards as three Frith sisters were working at Highfields Uttoxeter, when they married in the 1840s. A Mary Sneyd Kinnersley lived there.

St Johns church of Wetley Rocks was established in 1834 on land donated by the Sneyd family, and Rev Henry Sneyd was the first encumbant. So far that is as close as I get to linking the two families.

Slightly off topic but I have often wondered if there is a connection between the Tissington Millward families and the Millwards of nearby Wetley Rocks, Staffordshire.

My 3x gt grandmother Ann Frith b1805 Tissington and her sister Elizabeth Frith b 1812 Tissington, married two brothers Thomas Millward b 1800 and his younger brother William Millard of Wetley Rocks sons of a John Millward born c1770.

Last year someone kindly posted the entries in a family Bible that belonged to descendants of John Millward ( Rootschat Stafforshire site) which suggested he may have been born someplace call Sprink? Which does suggest there is no connection  to the  Millward families of Tissington.

Further information. William Wilson, b 1901, husband of Muriel, worked for the firm of  of John Maxwell of Great James Sr, Londonderry. Bob Livingston has a newspaper clipping with a reference number under the photo 41TLS25.  William's wife Muriel Livingston who died 1963 is not in the photograph but their daughter Iris born 1929 is there. Iris married John Canning. The photograph of her son  with the same wallpaper background, was probably taken in the 1960s.

Bob Livingston left Ireland in 1928 but left Londonderry sometime before that and was working on a family farm in Skreen Sligo before he left for the Unite States. Bob returned to Sligo in the early 1960s and died 1973.