Thread: An oddball Sheffield Threesome.

I hope you'll be able to make them reproduce, with the lady .. and the ... well ....

Can't wait to see their childs

Sweet treesome Zak! Enjoy!

See what happens when you ship the puritans an ocean away

Now I wonder what are their children's songs about farming - may be that's how old macdonald got all those e-i-e-i-o's

Nice farmer's razors!

Why do I picture Zak looking like this when I ask if I could borrow them for a week or 2 ?

Zak...I take it I'll get to hold these in my hands soon???

Beautiful. Simply beautiful!

Originally Posted by Wolfpack34

Zak...I take it I'll get to hold these in my hands soon???

Beautiful. Simply beautiful!

Yup. I'll be bringing them with me... in a bullet-proof, bomb-proof, rust-proof, drool-proof, ocean-proof, car-proof container!

(or probably just my regular leather razor roll)

Wow. What a find! I am always amazed at the history you are able to dig up. Congrats.

Gorgeous, and with provenience as well. Congratulations.

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Now that Ancestry.com is accessible again, I've been able to dig into this all a bit more... And I think I indicated the wrong Samuel Sims.

There was a Samuel Sims in Yeldersley who kept Lady Hole Farm.

But in Duffield there was a Samuel Sims who was a blacksmith. What with that 'Duffield' identified blacksmith scene, I think that fella is the more likely one; thus there is no Lady Hole¹ involved here.

The blacksmith was born in sometime around 1808. He married a woman named Hannah (whose family name wasn't recorded), and had six kids -- Mary Ann, Charles, Louisa, Rachael, Rose, and Samuel.

Tracking his children is a bit depressing.

1. In A Book For the Hammock (1887), William Clark Russell writes, under Sea Phrases: "In old marine narratives and novels the term "lady's hole" frequently occurs. I was long bothered by this expression, which I indirectly gathered to signify a sort of cabin; but in what part of the ship situated, and why so called, I could not imagine, until in the course of my reading I lighted upon a description of a man-of-war of 1712, in which it is stated that "the lady's hole" is a place for the gunner's small stores, built between the partners of the main-mast, and looked after by a man named "a lady," "who is put in by turns to keep the gun room clean."

SHAME ON YOU !!!!