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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Further e-mail from Barbara on the Rev. Kerry: I also transcribed these notes from the beginning of the Register of Baptisms and Pedigrees. There is an index which accompanies the microfilms and the staff at Derby Local Studies are very helpful. The staff at Heanor Library are equally helpful and I have used 2 volumes about Smalley written by Rev. Kerry. They also have the Census on microfilm. (You probably are already aware of this!!) I think the attached notes are very moving and well worth reading apart from any other info. which may be discovered. I have been able to photocopy the Bunting Family Tree which has confirmed information so far collected and clues for further research - needess to say anyone with Bunting links in Smalley would be an interesting contact. [b]Memorandum[/b] In the year 1860 I made a genealogical ‘Visitation’ of Smalley almost from house to house carefully examining records in family Bibles and other books & papers. None of the notes in this register have been made on supposition. In these collections I was materially assisted by my dear father Samuel Kerry who never resided out of the parish for the long period of 82 years and by the united testimony of many of the oldest inhabitants. The result of my labours will be found in a large volume of Smalley Genealogies and Pedigrees now in the possession of my cousin John Walker of Field House, Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby. (Signed) Charles Kerry Late Rector of Upper Stondon Beds October 1900 Baptisms 1813 to 1854 [b]Additional notes[/b] I purchased this volume with three other vols, all Registers of Smalley, from the Rev. Chas Kerry, Sept. 1902 (Signed) H.H. Bemrose (Reference MSS 4708 – Derby Local Studies Library) These Pedigrees were compiled by the Rev. Charles Kerry a native of Smalley Co. Derby for the most part from living authorities but verified and augmented from various parish registers and family memoranda. Nothing has been inserted without confirmation, so that these records of families as far as they go, may be absolutely relied upon. I write this in 1901, though for the most part the village pedigrees were completed before the year1860: continuations have been added as the opportunity has served ever since. I am now ill, and as far as I can see never likely to proceed much further with this work, and, having no children of my own, I earnestly entreat that this record may be most sacredly preserved, carefully handled, and never allowed to go out of good keeping, considering the great labour which it entailed on the Revd Charles Kerry. …………………………………………………………………………………. Frequent reference is made in this volume 6 to my other folio MSS. These folios twenty one in number were all sold by me to Sir Henry H. Bemrose very shortly before I left Upper Stondon Rectory Beds at the commencement of my illness Charles Kerry July 18th 1902 (Reference MSS 4686 – Derby Local Studies Library)[/quote]
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This message was updated on 6/26/2003 6:53:25 PM by RMMee

Kerry's Notes
replied on: 6/26/2003 6:52:19 PM

Further e-mail from Barbara on the Rev. Kerry:

I also transcribed these notes from the beginning of the Register of Baptisms and Pedigrees. There is an index which accompanies the microfilms and the staff at Derby Local Studies are very helpful.

The staff at Heanor Library are equally helpful and I have used 2 volumes about Smalley written by Rev. Kerry. They also have the Census on microfilm. (You probably are already aware of this!!)

I think the attached notes are very moving and well worth reading apart from any other info. which may be discovered.

I have been able to photocopy the Bunting Family Tree which has confirmed information so far collected and clues for further research - needess to say anyone with Bunting links in Smalley would be an interesting contact.

Memorandum

In the year 1860 I made a genealogical ‘Visitation’ of Smalley almost from house to house carefully examining records in family Bibles and other books & papers. None of the notes in this register have been made on supposition. In these collections I was materially assisted by my dear father Samuel Kerry who never resided out of the parish for the long period of 82 years and by the united testimony of many of the oldest inhabitants. The result of my labours will be found in a large volume of Smalley Genealogies and Pedigrees now in the possession of my cousin John Walker of Field House, Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby.
(Signed) Charles Kerry
Late Rector of Upper Stondon Beds
October 1900
Baptisms 1813 to 1854

Additional notes

I purchased this volume with three other vols, all Registers of Smalley, from the Rev. Chas Kerry, Sept. 1902 (Signed) H.H. Bemrose

(Reference MSS 4708 – Derby Local Studies Library)

These Pedigrees were compiled by the Rev. Charles Kerry a native of Smalley Co. Derby for the most part from living authorities but verified and augmented from various parish registers and family memoranda. Nothing has been inserted without confirmation, so that these records of families as far as they go, may be absolutely relied upon. I write this in 1901, though for the most part the village pedigrees were completed before the year1860: continuations have been added as the opportunity has served ever since. I am now ill, and as far as I can see never likely to proceed much further with this work, and, having no children of my own, I earnestly entreat that this record may be most sacredly preserved, carefully handled, and never allowed to go out of good keeping, considering the great labour which it entailed on the Revd Charles Kerry.
………………………………………………………………………………….

Frequent reference is made in this volume 6 to my other folio MSS. These folios twenty one in number were all sold by me to Sir Henry H. Bemrose very shortly before I left Upper Stondon Rectory Beds at the commencement of my illness
Charles Kerry July 18th 1902

(Reference MSS 4686 – Derby Local Studies Library)

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