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Dinah was born in 1797 at Bedfield, Suffolk. She married Charles Barker, a farmer in London in 1821. They returned to Suffolk but before 1841 Dinah had moved to Milford, near Belper in Derbyshire. Dinah and Charles had three daughters - Charlotte, Caroline and Clarissa, all born in Suffolk.
Dinah lived firstly at Hopping Hill Terrace (still standing) in Milford - this is near the mill which provided work for most of the villagers. For the 1851 and 1861 censuses she lived at 5 Well Lane.
Hopping Hill Terrace today
Caroline, Dinah's eldest daughter was born in 1821 in Great Thornham, Suffolk. She worked as a silk winder and as a silk stocking knitter. She married twice - both to framework knitters called Joseph.The first was Joseph Stables, the second Joseph Mellor.
Charlotte was born in Suffolk in 1822. She died in 1847 in Belper registration district of phthisis (tuberculosis).She married Samuel Cheetham in 1842 at Duffield, Derbyshire. Samuel was born about 1822 in Derbyshire. Samuel died before 1851. Samuel and Charlotte had a daughter called Hannah, born 1843 in Milford. Because she was orphaned when very young, Hannah was brought up by her grandmother Dinah. Hannah married Joshua Marsden Cox at Belper Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1861. Click here to read about the family of Joshua and Hannah Cox.
Duffield Church today
Dinah's youngest daughter Clarissa was born in Winston, Suffolk in 1825.She worked as a school teacher then married a joiner named Henry Godard Truman (born 1828, Nottingham) in Milford in 1854.