References (coloured
links are to information elsewhere on this website):
[1] From the 1939 Register, available
on FindMyPast.
[2] Starkholmes
ARP Wardens, about 1940 discusses the
role of these wardens.
[3] Fred Kirkland (formerly Richards)
was born in May 1899. He was living with grandparents Luke (d.1904)
and Jane Richards in the
1901 census but by 1911 was with his parents William and Ethel
Kirkland at Masson View on Wilmot Street. He was still Richards,
but also shown as William's son. William was also a plumber so
possibly trained Fred.
[4] In 1901 Sarah Jane Knight was living
with her two eldest children, William and May, and was described
as an Army Reservist's wife.
[5] 1911 census, available on FindMyPast.
[6] "Derbyshire Courier",
9 January 1915.
[7] William James Knight had first enlisted
in the Bedfordshires in 1890 (from Army records), was drafted to
India in 1894 but joined the post office on his return in 1898.
He rejoined the Army in 1899 and served in the Boer War ("Derbyshire
Times",
27 May 1933). The DT from 1933 says he served with the Notts and
Derbys Regiment in WW1. He was town postman at Matlock from 1918
until his retirement.
[8] William Ernest Knight is amongst the
names on Matlock Bath's war memorial.
[9] William James Knight advertised
a boarding house on North Parade in Kelly's Directories between
1922 and 1932.
[10] Some of the family are
commemorated at Holy Trinity church. When William Reginald
died in 1988 he was living on Mornington Rise.
[11] From correspondence with Mrs. Ivy
Tunstall.
[12] John Thomas Carding was the son
of Joseph and Blanche Carding and the family were living in Woodthorpe
at the time of the 1881 census - see Strays.
By the 1891 census John
Thomas was living lived with an uncle in Starkholmes. He married
Emma, daughter of Samuel Howitt, at St. Giles' on 31 Mar 1904.
The couple were living above their shop, together with their daughter
Blanche (born 1908), by 1911. John advertised in Kelly's
Directory 1912 | Kelly's
Directory 1916. He continued to advertise until his death
in 1941.
[13] Blanche was still with her parents
in 1939. She had married Joseph Lawrence in 1932 but he was killed
in a fall at Hopton Wood Quarry just two weeks after their marriage
("Derbyshire
Times", 10 December 1932) which must have been devastating
for her. She remarried in 1846, this time to Ernest A Longbone
and died in Hull in 1989. He mother pre-deceased her, passing away
at Howden in Yorkshire in 1969.
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