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Derbyshires (Spring View)

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Robert Alexander Derbyshire (Bob)
Robert Alexander Derbyshire (Bob)
Photo: Bernard Derbyshire
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Item #: 12466
Bob Derbyshire, also on Spring View Home Guard in Assorted, with Jack, at the rear of 23 Hey Street.

Comment by: Bernard on 10th November 2009 at 14:18

His father was also named Robert Alexander, Alexander being his mother's (Emma) maiden name. She came from Suffolk, and married Robert Derbyshire in 1867, in Bolton. Her sister and brother-in-law (named Brabben, later distorted to Brabbin) also moved from Suffolk, to Liverpool and then to Lower Ince. Robert's father (also Robert) was the manager at Sandbrook Mill when it burnt down in 1881.

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