Glossop Gill

Glossop Gill was the eldest of twelve children born in Dore to John Gill and his wife Susan, also known as Susannah. John, who had been born in Whirlow in about 1854, was a stone mason; Susan had been born in Dore in about 1853, and may be the daughter of William Taylor, a scythe smith of Green Lane, Dore.

Glossop was born on 23rd June 1878, and baptised in Dore on 14th July of that year. He attended Dore School from September 1884 to June 1889. He became a stone mason like his father; and this was his occupation in 1901 when he was living with his parents and ten of his siblings at Newfield Farm.

In 1905, he married Elizabeth Ann Hasman, a farmer’s daughter from Old Brampton near Chesterfield. In 1911, Glossop and Elizabeth were living in Rose Cottage, Dore, with their daughters Ida, aged 5, and one-year-old Gladys. A third daughter, Nora, was born in 1912. The family later moved to Woodland View, Old Brampton.

Glossop enrolled as a private in the Army Service Corps (Regimental number RX4/235624). He died of pneumonia at the Camp Hospital, Romsey, Hampshire, on 15th March 1917, aged 38. He is buried in Dore churchyard with his parents and his siblings Gertrude and Farewell.

Glossop is commemorated on the war memorial on the corner of Vicarage Lane in Dore, and also on that in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Old Brampton, Derbyshire, where he is listed with the men from the nearby hamlet of Wadshelf.