Mary Cree and her brother Francis Cree

The isolated baptism of an illegitimate child at the little hamlet of Throapham in Yorkshire would seem to refer to Mary Cree of Clowne, but only because of an absence of alternatives. It has recently been pointed out that Mary later married George Sims at Clowne. This makes it quite likely that her son William was the one who married Susanna Pardo in Sheffield.

Mary's brother Francis Cree was a feltmaker like his father William, and later described as a hatter. He married Phoebe Winn at Ollerton and they settled at Worksop. They baptised three daughters there in the same period that Francis's brother William and his wife Sarah were baptising children at Worksop. It seems that Francis and Phoebe then moved to Chesterfield where a fourth daughter was baptised nearly a century before their distant relatives the Palterton Crees moved there.

Recent research (2005) suggests that Francis and Phoebe Cree had at least three other children, James, Sarah and Mary, who moved to Stockport, Cheshire, some time before 1817. Perhaps the whole family moved there. James Cree became a hatter and founded the dynasty of Cree hatters in the Stockport, Hyde and Denton area south of Manchester.