One of Ari’s 5x great-grandfathers was John Morris, born in 1817 in Draycott, Derbyshire. His baptism took place on 3 August 1817 at the church in Wilne, which we visited in April 2018. His parents were James Morris – a cotton spinner – and Alice Castledine. John was their third child. John lost two baby sisters when he was young – Ann, who died at a few days old in 1828, and Alice, who died nearly two in 1829. Then the following year, John’s mother Alice died at 37. In the 1

William Castledine of Wilne, Derbyshire, was Ari’s 8x great-grandfather. He was born on 30 September 1712 and baptised on 1 October at the church of St Chad, along with his twin brother Samuel. Bench mark, St Chad’s church, Wilne, used to record the height above sea level He married Elenor Freeman on 28 Mar 1748 (both described as ‘of Draycott’), and a son, Joseph, was baptised in January 1749 and buried on 9 December that year. The mill in Draycott, built in 1888. Elenor die

Thomas Castledine was Ari’s 7x great-grandfather and I don’t know much about him yet. On 30 January 1787 he married Alice Warren at Dale Abbey in Derbyshire. “A more peaceful and pleasant spot than Dale Abbey is hard to find in the whole of Derbyshire. Yet it is less than three miles from the suburbs of Derby to the west, and even closer to a vast area of housing and industrialisation on the eastern side. The story of Dale Abbey, or Depedale as it was originally known, begins