Born in Lincolnshire, Joseph trained as a stockinger near Nottingham, before moving to Smalley in Derbyshire. He was a well known local singer and violinist, kept a diary, and wrote a memoir recalling events of his life in 1817.

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Mary was born at Smalley, the daughter of John Ratcliff and his wife Mary (née Redgate). Mary worked first as a framework knitter and later as a seamer.

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Mary was born at Bowers Allerton, Yorkshire. Between 1894 and 1901, she moved with her family to Smalley, Derbyshire, where she met and married William Beardsley Bower.

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The son of John Bowmer and his wife Elizabeth (née Beardsley), ‘Billy’ Bowmer was born at Belper, and moved with his family to Smalley, Derbyshire, between 1891 and 1892, where he met Mary Annie Moss.

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Elizabeth was born at Smalley, Derbyshire, and married William Dring at St Alkmund’s Church, Duffield.

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Martha, like her parents, worked as a framework knitter. When she was 22, Martha had a daughter who she named Laura, and 9 years later she had a son, who she called Henry. Martha married Frederick Faulks when she was 34 years old.

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Sarah, like her parents and younger sister Martha, worked as a framework knitter before she married Thomas Roe in 1866.

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Born in early 1847 in Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, Ira was baptised on 9th November 1851 at St John the Baptist’s Church, Smalley, and after leaving school, he worked as a stocking framework knitter. Ira died on 16th December 1871 aged 24 and was buried in the churchyard of St John the Baptist’s Church on 20th December..

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William was born at Smalley, Derbyshire, and after first working as a framework knitter, became a coal miner at Mapperley Colliery.

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Sarah was born at Smalley, Derbyshire, the daughter of Thomas Kyte and his wife Jane (née Woolley). In 1874 she married Charles Woolley, with whom she had two children. Charlie was a coal miner and died in a mining accident in 1876. She married William Moss in 1880.

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Born at Horsley Woodhouse, Henry Moss was a coal miner. In 1890 he married Mary Catherine (‘Katie’) Belfield (1862-1908) at Attenborough, Nottingham, and two years after her death in 1908, he married Margaret Ann Reeves (1881-1954).

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Mary Catherine, known as ‘Katie’, was born at Beeston, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Henry Belfield and his wife Emma (née Burnham).

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Margaret was born at Findern, Derbyshire, the daughter of John Arthur Reeves and his wife Mary (née Watson).

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Emma was born at Heanor, Derbyshire, and married John Will Truman at St John the Baptist Church, Smalley.

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Born at Smalley, Derbyshire, Walter was a coal miner at Mapperley Colliery, and for 29 years the secretary of Smalley Common ex-Servicemen’s Club.

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Fanny was born at Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Isaac Straw and his wife Mary (née Slater).

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Born at Smalley Common, Derbyshire, Louisa married Alfred Clarke in 1949.

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John was born at Smalley, Derbyshire, and worked as a miner.

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Mabel was born at Stanley Common, Derbyshire, the daughter of Joseph Bacon and his wife Elizabeth Sarah (née Dando).

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Following the death of his parents in 1872 and 1873, Robert was raised by his uncle, and after completing his teacher training at Cheltenham, he moved first to Southborough in Kent, and then to Uxbridge, where he was the headmaster of St Margaret’s Boys’ and Girls’ schools for 23 years.

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The daugher of Alfred and Sarah Houseman, Mabel married Robert Moss in 1894.

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Madeline, known as ‘Lena’, was born at Uxbridge, Middlesex, and was the headmistress at Belmont Road Infant School from 1941 to 1959. Lena lived to be 102 years old.

Holding a Diploma of Associateship of the Royal College of Art (ARCA), Hugh was vice-principal of the School of Arts and Crafts in Wakefield, before becoming the principle of the Gloucester City School of Arts and Crafts. In 1955 he was presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her visit with the Duke of Edinburgh to Gloucester, for which he prepared the loyal address.

Born in January 1895 at Smalley in Derbyshire, Wilfred was baptised at St John the Baptist’s Church on 29th September 1895. After leaving school, Wilfred worked as a loader at Mapperley Colliery before volunteering to join the army for service during the First World War. He enlisted at Derby on 16th November 1914 and joined the Sherwood Foresters, before being transferred to the 7th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment, in which he became an Acting Lance Sergeant. Wilfred was killed in action on 26th August 1918 in Iran, aged 24. He is remembered on the war memorial in Tehran, and on the Mapperley Colliery Roll of Honour.

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Born at Allerton Bywater on 22nd November 1908, Lavinia married Percy Warner in 1938.

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Born at Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, Rhoda emigrated to the United States in 1892 where she met and married Edgar Haeg Stedman.

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The son of Squire B. and Angeline Houghton Stedman, Edgar was born at Windom, Minnesota. He married Rhoda Moss on 9th March 1896.

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The daughter of Martha Moss, Laura was born at Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, in 1858, and baptised on 5th August 1860 at St Clement’s Church in Horsley. She lived with her mother and grandparents on Wood Lane, Horsley Woodhouse, and the diary of her grandfather Joseph Moss recorded that at the time of the 1871 census Laura was working as an errand girl.

By 1877 Laura was working as a framework knitter and on 24 December 1877 she married William Hunt at Horsley Church. Joseph recorded in his diary that on 2 March 1878 Laura gave birth to twins, but that one died soon after it was born, and the other died a few days after. Their third child Selina was born on 24 February 1879 but on 21 September 1880 Joseph recorded that ‘Selina Infant Daughter of William & Laura Hunt of Wood Lane Died of Theething.’ Laura and William went on to have six more children, and lived at 37 Thorpe’s Road, Heanor.

Laura died at home on 18th January 1923. A local newspaper reported that ‘at about 9.15 Edith Hutchinson, employed by the Langley Mill and Aldercar Co-operative Society, went to the house as usual to deliver milk, and not finding the jug or basin in the customary place on the doorstep, opened the door and saw Mrs. Hunt kneeling on the couch with her head in her arms. The neighbours were quickly summoned and the doctor sent for, and on his arrival Dr. Philip Turton pronounced life extinct and attributed death as being due to heart disease...The deceased lady was 64 years of age and very well known in the district. She was the mother of five sons and one daughter, one of the sons being Mr. Jack Hunt, landlord of the Nag’s Head, Derby Road.'

Joseph enlisted in the Foot Guards at Derby in 1871 and by 1875 was stationed in Dublin with the Grenadier Guards, after which he joined the Derby Borough Police. On 12th July 1879, PC35 Joseph Moss was shot during an arrest and died the following day. He was buried at Chaddesden Cemetery, Derby, where a simple cross marked his final resting place until 2003 when a new publicly funded memorial was erected.

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Born at Bowers Allerton, Yorkshire, on 14th February 1890, James worked as a clerk at Mapperley Collier before serving in the First World War, during which he married Annie Elizabeth Thompson at Smalley Church on 7th May 1916.

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Mary Moss m. (1) 1848 John Allsop (1818-18__); m. (2) 1873 Luke Kenny (1834-18__).

Mary Moss m. (1) 1878 John Booth (1856-1879); m. (2) 1887 Fred Fryer (1848-19__).

William Moss m. (1) 1909 Blanche Mary Turner (1885-1923); m. (2) 1926 Eleanor Beatrice Turner (1888-1969).

Zillah Moss m. (1) 1921 George Harold Bullivant (1894-1945); m. (2) 1949 Arthur Warner (18__-19__).

Joseph Walter Moss m. (1) 1935 Clara Muriel Walker (1908-1939); m. (2) 1940 Olive Othelia Wilkinson (1915-2005).