DANIEL ERNEST BAKER

My father Daniel Ernest Baker passed peacefully away on Monday 20th December 2010 with pneumonia.
He was 92, just a few days short of his 93rd birthday which would have been on christmas day.

Funeral Monday 20th January at 11am at the Parish Church, Melbourne, Derbyshire

RIDING CROP

The riding crop belonging to my Great Grandfather Ernest Yates

He used to ride over to Alkmonton to court my Great Grandmother Elizabeth Tudor

DONALD AND DOROTHY YATES

Dad's cousin Donald and his wife Dorothy

THE MOUNT, CARPER LANE, BRAILSFORD

The Mount, Carper Lane, Brailsford

The Farm where my Great Grandmother Mary Yates (nee Millington)

farmed when she moved from Brailsford Old Part

following the death of her husband Hamlet Yates

BRAILSFORD OLD PARK FARM

Dad's cousin Geoffrey Yates and his Grandaughter Grace

Brailsford Old Park Farm as it is now

my Great Great Grandparents had a farm there in the 1800's

VISIT TO BROWN HOUSE ASHLEYHAY WHERE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN

Went on a lovely trip out in North Derbyshire today and managed to track down the farm where my grandmother Ethel May Yates was born

Its just on the outskirts of Wirksworth - travelling towards Wirksworth from Derby you pass through Idrigehay and then turn right which takes you to a collection of farms and cottages on the hillside, its not signposted.

I asked someone where it was and they directed me to a white metal gate which we had to open and go along the farm track through the fields of sheep. The occupants who lived there were friendly and welcoming which was good as I felt I was intruding a bit, it was so out of the way, not somewhere you could pass by. They showed me some census information they had confirming that Ernest Yates was farming there as a tennant farmer when it was sold in 1896 by a Dr John Adsetts. Took some photo's, its a beautiful place with marvellous views but I could imagine it would be hard living there in the winter with no electicity and so far from civilization.

WILLIAM ERNEST YATES

William Ernest Yates and Marjory Green

William Ernest Yates was my Grandmother's younger brother

I have recently found a long lost cousin Geoffrey Yates and his brother Donald and visited them at their farm in Sutton on the Hill near Brailsford

William Ernest is their father

Geoff has done a lot of family history research and I have got lots of really interesting information from him and also the new photo's on the blog

It was fascinating and really great to meet him and catch up on the family