Samuel Wheeldon, hosiery dresser
One of Ari’s 4x great-grandfathers was Samuel Wheeldon. Samuel was born in Cromford in Derbyshire on 14 July 1851, the fourth son of John Wheeldon (a hatter) and Ruth Brelsford. Samuel’s baptism took place at St Mary’s Church in Cromford. The church when we visited in December 2018 Derbyshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813–1916, Ancestry.co.uk At the age of nine, Samuel appeared in the 1861 census, and was described as “at home”, unlike his older brother John, who