Posted 12 Dec 2020

The meeting included:

• Further presentation on the accuracy of records

The CWGC site records in additional information that James Anthony Whelan is the son of Robert Whelan and Catherine Whelan of Chaddesden, Derbyshire.

This information is also given on

Operation Market Garden: The Digital Monument website

https://monument.marketgarden.com/person/134/james-a-whelan

and the Airborne Assault ParaData website https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/james-whelan

Research has shown that the parents were from Liverpool and a request has been sent to the CWGC to amend their records.

• Update on the website.

Google will continue maintaining the website until later in 2021

• Online Conferences

RootsTech Connect: A Free Online Conference Experience 25 - 27 February 2021 (www.rootstech.org)

• Discussions

  • WWII – roles of Honour for those who served in Chaddesden

  • Nottingham Road Cemetery Burial Records – in the nineteenth century only those who were C of E were buried in consecrated ground all others in unconsecrated ground (at this time there were many nonconformist churches in Derby. The cemetery had two separate chapels, the one that is still used was originally only for C of E burials. The nonconformist chapel is now used to store equipment)

  • YouTube video of Railway Worker’s graves at Nottingham Road Cemetery (Spirits of the Midland Railway - YouTube)

  • Temperance was encouraged by the Methodists (Derby City Church in Curzon Street was originally a Temperance Hall and the foundation stone was laid on 3 June 1852)

  • Family Bibles – Mandy has a detailed example

  • Recording of ages, oral information can be very unreliable

  • Christmas offer through S&N