Hoping this might spark an interest with descendants of Joseph Matthew Wilde and Alethia Wilde (nee Hodgkinson). I'm particularly looking for descendants of John James Wilde who farmed at Wormhill and later at Bradbourne. I know that John married Elizabeth Lomas in Buxton in 1920 but that's it. Would love to hear from anyone who can tell me more. Many thanks.
Saw your post heading and remembered that my great grandad Luke Gregory, when he contracted to do repair work on the Chapel in 1891, a Joseph Wilde of Moss Carr was one of the trustees representing the Chapel.
I have a book (published in 1847) with the dedication:
Mr. Joseph Hodgkinson, Shellow Farm, Chelmorton, Near Bakewell
Joseph Hodgkinson was my maternal Great, Great Grandfather (he married Judith Percival). Their daughter Alethia (born approx 1846) married Joseph Wilde (born approx 1845), they were my maternal Great Grandparents. It's a long way from 1920 but it may be what you are looking for.
I've just made a connection between your posting and something my mother told me about,
she said: "In the early 1920s Uncle John and Aunt Cissie put Grandma Wilde in the Toll Barr Cottage at the end of the lane at Glutton Bridge. They knew that me mother and me Aunt Ann Maria (Harry Wheeldon's wife, me mother's sister) they were both not far away and would see her when they went for the bus at Glutton Bridge. She was there for two or three years then, I think she was ill. I don't know if the doctor said she wasn't safe to be on her own, anyway Uncle John and Aunt Cissie took her back to Great Rocks. Granny Wilde was at Great Rocks when she died but she was buried at Chelmorton."
The connection was that Great Rocks is between Green Fairfield and Wormhill not near Doveholes as mother thought.
Going back one generation to John Wilde and his wife Sarah Plant mother said they lived at Gag 'Ay (Gag Hay?) Can anyone tell me where Gag 'Ay is??
Gag Hay is between Hollinsclough and Longnor, take the bottom road from Hollinsclough round the carrs as you start to go up the hill take the lane to your right. Yes I have also heard of the people you say living there.
