Hale family of Nailbridge / Ruardean (General)

by Sam Hale , Monday, February 21, 2005, 00:49 (6998 days ago)

I am interested in the Hale family of Nailbridge / Ruardean, i have loads of information, but can only get back as far as Aaron Hale from Ruardean born in 1670.

Cornelius Hale born in 1800 moved to Nailbridge to set up a Blacksmiths shop in 1830s which is still entact today, my great grandfather Frederick Hale and his brother Leslie set up a sawmils on the same site, in about 1913 and later it diversified into a Builder's Merchants and is still in extisentce today as Hale and Co.