The Wilsons of Stenson Derbyshire

PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION - JUNE 2008

The initial purpose of this page is to bring news about our wider Wilson Family to the descendants of the marriage between Charles David Brereton and Frances Wilson. However it may be at some time in the future we shall migrate this page to a more general website for the descendants of the Wilsons of Stenson, Derbyshire.

For some time there has been a world wide collaboration and exchange of information going on between distant cousins -- upto 6th cousins who are all descended from John Wilson (1696-1747) and Anne Henshaw (1698-1755). These early Wilsons were yeoman farmers at Stenson. While the eldest son inherited the farm, two younger sons of John and Anne entered the silk industry through marriages into Coventry cloth manufacturing families, and in due course set up businesses in London. The mercantile wealth enabled them to contract good marriages and to educate their children at University. Many became minsiters in the Church of England.

A group website was set up by Sue Green in February 2004: WE ARE WILSONS which contains many postings, but these are not very well ordered so it is quite hard to get an overview of the family from the hundreds of postings each containing various snippets of information. I hope that I can develope this part of the website to provide an overview of the Wilson family.

Recently Malcolm Harrison has published his book, Unravelling the Threads: A Guide to the Wilsons of Stenson in the County of Derbyshire 1664 to 1880, and on 28 June Gloria and I attended a garden party at his house to celebrate the launch of the book. Belowl you will find another picture showing our Wilson relatives and others attending the luncheon.

I will add more information here later.

Michael Sandford