Chap fornace could be Chapeltown Furnace, ie the blast furnace installed in Chapeltown ca 1600 and still in operation in the 1780s.
Dave

Thanks Dave & Heather I believe you are correct.

I left Sheffield in 1965 then to Boston Spa and 1967 to Canada soooooo my knowledge of places in the Sheffield area is somewhat limited. I was a Crookes, Walkley lass.

We will be transcribing Ecclesfield down the road. It was a huge Parish so will take our three coordinators and teams time to get through it. Plus some of the early pages are in terrible shape.
BUT we will try.

Take care all of you Elaine.

Some of my family were baptised at the Thorncliffe chapel in Ecclesfield in the 1820’s. That is a really nice one, because in addition to giving the parents names it also says who the maternal grandparents were. I wish they were all like that!

Heths

Hi Elaine

I live in Chapeltown. To add to the answers given, there's also Greenhead House at the end of Greenhead Lane which I think is from the 17th century.

I've also got family from Ecclesfield so looking forward to when we get to transcribing this parish :smile:

Hi Julia,

Thanks for your reply it all helps.

My Wilson Clan all come from Ecclesfield and area. (Skew Hill) and were file cutters.
Thomas Wilson (Rotherham?) & Sarah Peace (Ecclesfield) were married at St Mary's in 1742.He was a husbandman at that time. They went on to have 10 children all but two surviving infancy

So I must have a number of rellies in that area.LOL.

Elaine.

PS Thomas and Sarah are my 5x great grandparents. My maiden name being Wilson.