VOLUME 14 ISSUE 4 NOV 17 The Voice St Anne's Church Roger Truscott Inside this issue Since the previous edition of Voice we have had two “festival services” at St Anne's. On a beautiful Summer's day (remember P2 Parish Council th those!) on the 30 of July we had our Patronal Festival P2 Indoor bowls (St Anne's Day) which was also a Benefice service (that includes the churches in Bakewell, Ashford, Sheldon and Rowsley) and P3 The Jones family had a full church. Then on the 1st October we celebrated Harvest P4 Diary dates Festival, when we also had a good congregation. After both services most people stayed for tea, coffee, cakes and P4 Bonfire & fireworks a chat, which was very sociable and enjoyable. So thanks to those who made that possible, and also thanks to the ladies who P5 I remember decorated the church windows on both occasions, making the P5 Village show report church look so attractive. Of course, at the Harvest festival the church windows also P6 History group displayed gifts, both of fresh fruit (mainly apples) and tins, packets and bottles of food and drinks. We continued the long- p7 Harvest supper established tradition of distributing gifts of fruit to a number of P7 Well dressing update elderly residents in the village and took the packaged gifts to the parish church from where they were taken to the Buxton food P8 Regular events bank. This latter is a more recent tradition, as food banks, and the numbers who use them, have only grown rapidly in recent p9 Sponsors of The Voice years, most particularly since the financial crisis of 2007/8 and the “austerity years” which have followed. It is hard, perhaps, to imagine that there exists, in this area, the degree of household FOR SALE poverty which drives people to turn to food banks, but poverty in BOSCH 50/50 CLASSIXX rural areas has long been more of a hidden phenomenon than it FRIDGE FREEZER £40 is in some of the big cities. Yet it exists. Just in this area there are Available November food banks in Buxton, Ashbourne, Matlock and Chesterfield, and 01629 812133 no doubt others further afield in the county. In November, in addition to the usual services (first and third Sundays) we will be holding the short annual Remembrance The next edition of The Voice Service at 10.50 next to the War Memorial in Main Street. will be in Feb 2018. Deadline For a few years past (and one more to come) there is a special for notices, sale items, articles poignancy about this, as we are commemmorating the centenary etc is Jan 18th of events from the First World War. This year we remember the [email protected] infamous battles of Paschendael in Flanders, and I also remem- South View, Over Haddon. ber the lesser known Palestine campaign in which my own father 01629 812133 served. However, after the grey month of November we start turning our rd The editor is not responsible thoughts towards Christmas. Advent begins on Sunday the 3 of for any views or opinions th December, we will hold our Carol Service at 6pm on Sunday 17 expressed . of December and a 10am family service on Christmas Day. Lastly, we said goodbye recently to our latest curate, David BRITISH SUMMER TIME Mundy, who some will have met, who has been appointed to a ENDS AT 2am ON SUNDAY parish in Glossop, closer to where he lives, and takes with him our very good wishes. He has sent a “thank you” card, which is OCTOBER 29th. pinned up on the church notice board. DON’T FORGET TO RE-SET YOUR CLOCKS PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Over Haddon Parish Council met in September and received reports on a village walkabout involving cllrs Judith Twigg, Dick Foxon, Zena Hawley and a Highways Officer. A report is awaited from Highways concerning what can be done to ease parking issues. A representative from District Council attended the September parish council meeting to discuss their review of all their toilet blocks. Parish Council also looked at ways to improve support for the annual fireworks display. Parish Council has kept County Councillor Mrs Judith Twigg informed of the developments in the school bus changes , and has applied to Land Registry to secure all its unregistered village assets. Council next meets on Monday 13th November at 8pm in the Village Hall. All welcome Matthew Lovell 01629 636151 [email protected] HAVE YOU EVER TRIED INDOOR BOWLS? Bowls is a great community activity, a fun and friendly game played by all ages, The members of Over Haddon Bowls group only play against each other, no leagues. Games start at 7.30pm and last until around 9-9.30pm. The bar is usually open. Normally the bowls group meet on Monday evenings, between October and March— however this season has failed to get started and we need to recruit new members. Would you like to try your hand at bowls? We have a lovely bowls mat, kindly bequeathed by Ernest Welham, and the bowls are already waiting for you - no need to buy anything. The weekly fee is normally £2, but we’d love you to come to our FREE OPEN EVENING ON MONDAY NOVEMBER 6th, 7.30pm . NEW ‘OUT AND ABOUT’ SHOPPING BUS Derby and Derbyshire AGE UK have started a Monday morning ‘Shopping bus’ suitable for people aged 50+ and including those who may need accessible transport. The door to door return transport offers a 15 seater minibus with tailgate access. The bus sets off at 9.30am for pick ups in Sheldon, Monyash, Over Haddon and Youlgreave and goes to Bakewell town centre. The return journey is at 1pm. Shopping trips are pre-bookable, a week in advance. Journeys can be paid on the bus by contactless card or chip and pin. You can be invoiced regularly if required. The journey is £5 return. To contact Age UK for a registration form and to book your shopping trip, call 01773 766922 [email protected] p2 MY JONES FAMILY OF OVER HADDON When I began researching my family history and paternal Derbyshire roots way back in the 1990s I had very little to build on. There were no surviving members of the family to talk to. There was just one story I remembered my father telling me. This concerned my Great Grandfather MOSES PEAT JONES (always known as PEAT) who had been obliged to leave home and seek work with the Midland Railway after being caught poaching on land belonging to the Duke of Devonshire where his father was the gamekeeper. I was amazed to quickly find him in the 1851 CENSUS, having assumed there would be many Jones families. MOSES PEAT was ten years old and born at Rowdale Toll Bar House, Great Longstone, where his father JOHN JONES was the Toll Bar Keeper. I was even more excited to find that JOHN JONES was born in Over Haddon and that Peat’s mother MARY ANN was born in Youlgrave, both places which I have always loved. I was first taken to the area by my Aunt, my father’s sister, who lived in Matlock, and we often picnicked in Lathkil Dale. (She retired to Ventnor IOW, and named her home there ‘Lathkil.’) No-one had ever mentioned the family connection to Over Haddon. The 1841 Census revealed that John and Mary Ann Jones were in Great Longstone, and had three daughters, Ann, Hannah, and Mary. All three died young of ‘Fever’ and are buried with their parents at Ashford in the Water, where JOHN JONES had moved to take up the position of Gamekeeper by 1861, confirming the family story. PEAT was by now described as a Stone Mason. I sent for Peat’s birth certificate which confirmed that he was born on March 17th 1840, and that his mother’s maid- en name was BUXTON. Records for All Saints in Bakewell revealed that JOHN JONES was baptised on 20th May 1804 and that his parents were JOHN JONES and MARY PEAT, thus explaining why ‘Peat’ was used as a first name. There were several other baptisms for children of this couple; William, Thomas, Elizabeth Peat, who died at the age of one, Francis and a second Elizabeth. The 1841 Census lists JOHN JONES and MARY (PEAT) at CONKSBURY. John is 69, a farmer, born in Derbyshire. At home are their son Francis and his wife and two daughters. By 1851 Mary is a widow, aged 72, and described as a farmer employing labourers. At home are Francis, described as ‘insane’ and his two daughters. No mention of his wife. John had died of ‘decay of nature’ on 5th December 1846 aged 74. I have yet to find a record of a marriage for John Jones and Mary Ann Buxton. But there is clearly a rebellious streak in the family. In a previous issue of The Voice Carolyn Pearce had written about an incident at what was then the Miner’s Arms in Over Haddon (now the Lathkil of course) in 1824 when John Jones along with a group of other men was found guilty of ‘riot and assault’ and fined 1/- at Wirksworth Quarter Sessions. There were several Jones families in the village in the early years of the Census records, but I have yet to discover connections between them. I’ve found a record of a Will dated 26th February 1694 belonging to one HUGH JONES of Over Haddon, which mentions a Hugh Jones, son of Edward Jones of Stanton, Thomas Jones of Chester, the four children of Edward Jones, and three children of Thomas Jones.