Porter Jones Family of New Mills

[cheery274]

Looking for information on the Porter Jones family that lived on Spring Bank in New Mills from 1901-1946.  Porter Jones was a shoemaker.  I do have the 1901 and 1911 census information.  Hoping to find someone also researching this family.  Porter Jones had many children and some descendants have the following surnames: Heery, Thompson, Perkins, Haywood. Would appreciate any information.

This is my family and I live 200 yards from Spring Bank along the same road. There are still quite a few of us around, some local some a few hours away.

[KLW82]

@cheery274 who are you descended from? I’m from Albert Jones, son of Porter Jones, who was a baker who lived on the crescent in Birch Vale. My Uncle still lives in Birch Vale.

[KLW82]

Thanks @trish1120! I didn’t understand how it works.

[KLW82]

Hi @ella cinders. Which of Hannah Shepherd’s children are you descended from? I have some family folklore about her marriage to Porter, but it is only what my Grandmother told me. She was Hannah’s granddaughter. Hopefully I can PM you after this post

[cheery274]

My grandfather was Owen Heery (Sr) and my dad was Mick who died a few weeks ago. I have a cousin who tod me about Great Grandad Porter-Jones sitting in the window on Spring Bank with nails between his teeth making shoes and the schoolkids thought he was eating them!

[Ella Cinders]

I'm a descendant of her daughter Lily.  Would love to hear from you or anyone who could share some antecdotes.

Cheers!
Ella

[cheery274]

Lily was my gran, she died in 1981. In the last few years she lived in Whaley Bridge.

I'm trying to post pictures but struggling with the IMG icon above.

[Ella Cinders]

I hope you are able to post the images.  Thanks for your post.
-Ella

[trish1120]

You can exchange email addreses on the pm system and then exchange photos off line if you want