150 Years Ago – Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal 3 May 1867
150 Years Ago – Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal 31 May 1867
Sale of Blanche Meadow advertised.
John Holmes, born about 1805 in Leicestershire appeared on the 1861 census as a farmer of 35 acres. Given the acreage of the sale this would seem to confirm that he was at Blanche Meadow. His wife Sarah born about 1795 in Yeaveley was with him at the time of the census together with a niece who was a dairymaid. They all appeared to be at Blanche Meadow in 1851. By 1871 Blanche Meadow was occupied by John J Smith, born 1850 in Ballidon, and his two sisters.
125 Years Ago – Derby Mercury 18 May 1892
Joseph Webster was born in Parwich in 1823. He appeared on both the 1881 and 1891 censues as farming at Peakway. In 1881 he was described as a farmer of 90 acres employing one man. He died in 1899 at Biggin by Hulland and is buried at Parwich where he is described as late of Peakway. His widow Anne and daughter Annie and her children had left Peakway by 1901, appearing in the census at Leys Cottages, Parwich Leys. In 1901 Peakway was occupied and farmed by Thomas Dale.
75 Years Ago – Derby evening Telegraph and Chesterfield Herald 15 May 1942
Does anyone remember the Compton – Ingelfields being keen bee keepers?
PARWICH.ORG 
Parwich has a long history of bee keeping: the Domesday book entry includes in the value of Parwich a quantity of honey, implying that honey was being produced here then (it is not usual to see honey recorded in the Domesday Survey); also there is the field name Honeylands located half way up the drive to Hawkslow, suggesting that before this land was enclosed that hives may have been brought there, perhaps to take advantage of the heather flower season when this was unimproved hill grazing.
The above mentioned Joseph Webster is my 3rd great-uncle.