Cree families at Beighton, Derbyshire (now Yorkshire)

The group of parishes comprising Beighton, Handsworth and Eckington lie just south of Sheffield and are now suburbs of the city. In the nineteenth century however Beighton was in Derbyshire.

Joseph Cree was the seventh child and fourth surviving son of William and Gertrude Cree of Clowne. Several of the relationships shown here are conjectural. Alexander and Amy are shown as children of Joseph and Ann without any real evidence.

We think that there may be one or two Cree descendants of Joseph and Ann Cree in Sheffield today.

For a bit of fun, with a serious intent also, I posed a puzzled concerning a photograph of some Beighton Crees to a couple of Internet mailing lists. The size of the response quite surprised me. See this extra page to try it for yourself.