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 St Michael vs St Lawrence
replied on: 12/7/2006 11:07:06 PM
No problems with the cats phil, I will just refer you back to the earlier issue of the "two Heanors", the main problem is that there are a few items that refer to the church as St Micheals, but all ones that seem to use the same manuscripts as a source.. and the sources seem to be the very early ones which have the confusion of which Heanor is which.

For the church to have still been St Micheals 1830-1860 (between the dates of the article you quote and the OS map) would not tie in with Corfields account (quoted by Jennypeg & in the Parish magazines). The Corfields came to Heanor in the late 1860's and so all of the Corfield children would have known from their early Childhood (and from Sarah Corfield (Rev F. Corfields wife) who lived until after the turn of the century) if the church changed the name. They would have also had a number of people that either from their own lives or stories from their parents would have disputed Corfields claim that the festival was over a 1000 years old.

The present issue is to try to find something "local", old, that speaks from personal experiance about the name of the church... which in theory will be churchwardens account books... which I can't get access to because the Matlock archive still haven't sent me the form for photocopies.. grrr

As a sudden thought though, JENNYPEG, in your wonderful knowledge of local papers and articles that have appeared, would you be able to check your information about the earliest local papers to see if there is any referance in August (around the 11th) to any festivals at Heanor Parish? That might at least give us a date that we know it must have been St Lawrence's.

Hopefully come the new year I'll either be able to take a holiday day at work and have a trip to the archive to check the church documents.
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