Samuel Sims was Ari’s 7x great-grandfather. View of the Derwent valley from Broadholme Lane He was born in 1727 in Broadholme, Belper, Derbyshire, and baptised on 24 September that year at St Alkmund’s in Duffield. Derbyshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812, Ancestry.co.uk Samuel’s parents were James Syms and Hannah Barber, and he was their fifth child. On 11 February 1752 Samuel married Mary Smith at the church in Duffield. Derbyshire,