Personalities

William Hopkinson

William Hopkinson

William Hopkinson 1871 – 1916 Born in 1871 in Brampton and died in Northern France on 31 July 1916. William ...

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Froggatt Family

Jason Froggatt & Fanny Wilkinson

Jason Froggatt celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with Fanny Wilkinson and all 15 of their children in 1911. Almost certainly ...

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John Hill

Edward Ernest (John) Hill

My grandfather (centre) rebuilt the lychgate at St Peter and St Paul’s, Old Brampton, to mark the Silver Jubilee of ...

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John Dixon

John Dixon

John Dixon lived at Brampton Hall through the middle of the 19th century. He described himself as a landowner and ...

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John Clarke & Family

John Clarke & Family

John Clarke (left) with his family John Clarke opened the Brampton Steam Bakery at 294 Chatsworth Rd in the last ...

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Ann Addy

Ann Addy

Ann lived and farmed with her husband, Joseph Hill, at Gamelea House, Eastmoor. She died in 1909. Their descendants are ...

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