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« on: Sunday 15 February 09 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jane,
What brought them to Chesterfield I don't know in all honesty - guessing it is because Grassmoor was a major player in coal mining - potential vocational calling perhaps?
What I can tell you is that after Chesterfield (my line of the Wallage's moved to the Dudley area of West Midlands).
My great Grandfather was John Arthur Wallage (on pre 1901 records listed purely as Arthur) who died in Chesterfield Jan 1963 just short of 80 Years old. He was married twice, it is from his second Marriage to an Emma Shaw (nee Smales) that (for want of a better phrase) I am eventually created. His youngest son Alfred was my Grandfather and he relocated to Dudley after WW2.
The George Wallage (born circa 1846) moved to Chesterfield with his family and noteably a son called George (who stayed at Chesterfield marrying an Eliza Glover and they were both the witnesses at my Great Grandfathers wedding) (John "Arthur" listed as a boarder I believe on the 1891 census). However George (circa 1846) appears to have moved back to Suffolk to live out his final years?
I have created as much of the family history as I can and would be more than willing to share with you what I have found.
PS: When I started this research over 4 years ago now I thought having an unusual surname would work to my benefit but here I am stuck in the 1840's - although until today I had not encountered the surname Honeyball - so Thanks!!
Clint Wallage