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Cambridgeshire Lookup Requests / Re: James Chambers and Martha Pilkington
« on: Tuesday 03 July 07 23:46 BST (UK) »
I don't know if anybody is still reading this thread but have stumbled across some strange coincidences.
My family name, Chambers, comes recently from Ilkeston in Derby. I know that one of my Great Grandparents is John Chambers and that there is a marriage to Mercy-Mable and possibly Martha Pilkington. John and James are family names and, although my name is Ian, my father still calls me John (it being my middle name). However, I come from a line of John and Ian Chambers with relations James and a Pilkington marriage.
My Grandfather travelled and worked in Cambridgeshire somewhere (will have to ask my Dad where and why), but I know that they were based in Derbyshire for a while and had distant links with DH Lawrence in Eastwood and the Pilkingtons (off Glass fame). However, I since learnt that the colamining industry and industrial revolution meant that there was a lot of migration around the country and various professions in the genelogy extend from baker to founrdyman.
Just thouh the coincidence was to close, that's all.
Ian JOhn Chambers
My family name, Chambers, comes recently from Ilkeston in Derby. I know that one of my Great Grandparents is John Chambers and that there is a marriage to Mercy-Mable and possibly Martha Pilkington. John and James are family names and, although my name is Ian, my father still calls me John (it being my middle name). However, I come from a line of John and Ian Chambers with relations James and a Pilkington marriage.
My Grandfather travelled and worked in Cambridgeshire somewhere (will have to ask my Dad where and why), but I know that they were based in Derbyshire for a while and had distant links with DH Lawrence in Eastwood and the Pilkingtons (off Glass fame). However, I since learnt that the colamining industry and industrial revolution meant that there was a lot of migration around the country and various professions in the genelogy extend from baker to founrdyman.
Just thouh the coincidence was to close, that's all.
Ian JOhn Chambers