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The HARRISON Family of Late C18th/Early C19th Alfreton, Derbys.
C19th East Derbyshire / West Nottinghamshire / South Yorkshire

Current head is Thomas HARRISON (c1803), a Collier of Green Hill Lane*, and his wife Elizabeth KNIGHTON of Somercotes m. 24.12.1823 at Alfreton [my 4xGGPs]. Thomas may be s/o Thomas c. 20.2.1803 at Alfreton. Descendants were part of the many coalmining families working many parts of the Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire coalfield.

The Greenhill Lane Hamlet was on the road between Leabrooks & Riddings (map below).

Their daughter Ann HARRISON (n. c1828) = Thomas VARLEY, a Coalminer of Green Hill Lane, Alfreton on 23.8.1846 at Alfreton Parish Church (both were given as minors). [My 3xGGPs]. Witnesses were John KNIGHTON & Elizabeth WILLIAMSON. Their children were:

• William HARRISON (c1826);

• Ann HARRISON (c1827);

• Thomas HARRISON (c1830);

• John HARRISON (c1832) = Phoebe SPENCER of Macclesfield (c1832). Child:

  • William HARRISON (1857 North Wingfield) = (1) Emma RAWSON in 1878 Hasland (died in childbirth c1882) = (2) Emily CAMP (1863) in 1885 Hasland. Family at Hasland in 1881 & Bolsover DBY in 1901. Children include:

    • George HARRISON;

    • Florence HARRISON;

    • John William HARRISON;

      • John HARRISON (1914-2003) of Langwith, NTT;

    • Ernest HARRISON;

    • Daisy HARRISON;

    • Minnie HARRISON;

    • Hilda HARRISON;

• Joseph HARRISON (c1834) = Emma JACKLIN in 1853 at Riddings, near GHL (both of GHL). In 1881 their children included:

• Jonathan HARRISON (c1861 GHL), coalminer;

• Thomas HARRISON (c1864 GHL), coalminer;

• Maria HARRISON (c1868 of Stonebroom);

• Ann O. HARRISON (c1866 Sutton-in-Ashfield).

• Mary HARRISON (c1836);

• Elizabeth HARRISON (c1838);

• Hannah HARRISON (c1841);

• James HARRISON (1842) = Emma SIMISTER (c1850 d/o John, from Portobella, ?Norfolk, at 1867 Staveley). In 1881 their children included:

• Mary E. HARRISON (c1870 Hasland, DBY);

• John W. HARRISON (c1872 New Wombwell, DBY);

• Elizabeth HARRISON (c1875 Allerton by Water, DBY);

• Joseph HARRISON (c1878 Swinton, YKS);

• Emily HARRISON (c1880 Sheffield, YKS);

• Also listed in 1841 at the end as resident were three further coalmining boys James HARRISON (15), William HARRISON (15) & Samuel HARRISON (14) who may be related to the family (older sons or nephew of the head). The census gives the family East Derbyshire origins but they may have nearby West Nottinghamshire roots.

After Thomas's death (c1843?) the widow Elizabeth HARRISON = widower Joseph ELLIS between 1848 & 1851 [Joseph ELLIS probably first married Esther ASHLEY in 1825 at Tibshelf, who was buried 18.5.1848 at Tupton.] Their combined families were living at Railway Ferry, Staveley, Derbys., in 1851 [ELLIS sons Samson (17), Joseph (14), James (12) & Edward (10), all coalminers, and 3 HARRISON children; Joseph HARRISON (17), coalminer, Elizabeth HARRISON (13) both above in 1841 & new son James HARRISON (8), all of Greenhill Lane.] In 1881 Elizabeth ELLIS was living with her sister Mary JOHNSON nee KNIGHTON in Hasland, near Chesterfield. Elizabeth's stepson Joseph ELLIS was also living in Hasland. The families of Samson & James ELLIS, and Joseph & James HARRISON, both coalminers, were in 1881 New Cross, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.

*Note: Greenhill Lane (GHL) is not a street in Alfreton, but one apparently running between the villages of Swanwick (some GHL refs in 1841) and Riddings. The majority of references suggest that GHL is a district hamlet and is treated as a village in the 1851 census.

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