Thread: Ferndale/Herndale/Sterndale

This is another of those things that has been bugging me for years and after trawling registers and Bishop's Transcripts, appealing for help through Family History Societies, searching IGI, the Hugh Wallis site, Family search and more Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire websites than I care to think about I am no nearer to finding out what I need to know.

In 1789 in DBY Bolsover a certain Valentine THORNALLY married a lady called Mary. The name THORNALLY appears in a variety of guises but I am 99% sure that he is the son of Valentine THORNHILL and Ann THORPE who were married by Licence in NTT Norton Cuckney in 1753. The two places are only a very few miles apart.

But who was Mary ? The Bolsover registers are in a parlous state, great chunks are missing but I did find the marriage mentioned above where Mary's name is given as HERNDALE and she does make an attempt to sign her name which to me reads as HRNDALL. In the BT's her name is given as FERNDALE and on the Hugh Wallis site as STERNDALE. Both FERNDALE and HERNDALE are very thin on the ground but the Family Search Beta site does have a number of Mary STERNDALE baptisms mostly in the counties of Lancashire and Derbyshire.

Is there a remote chance that anyone here is researching these families ?

Mary THORNERLEY, child of this marriage marries Benjamin RODGERS and they live DBY Staveley. My mother's maiden name was RODGERS and she descends from this couple.

This is the only Valentine & Mary marriage I could find.

Groom's Name: Valentine Thornally Bride's Name: Mary Sterndale
Marriage Date: 20 Jul 1789
Marriage Place: Bolsover,Derby,England
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M06097-2
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 422187
Collection: England Marriages, 1538–1973

That's the one Noggin - one of the three differing entries on three different records. The date and place are the same on all three but Mary's name is different.

When she attempted to sign her name I was inclined to think that she meant Herndale and this is certainly how I read the Marriage Register. I have always tried to use at least two sources of information, one to confirm the other, and had cause to look at the Bishop's Transcripts for other families in Bolsover and found Ferndale. Then Sterndale turned up as well !

Yet another brick wall of gigantic proportions, but thank you for your interest.