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Thanks Graham,
I hadn't noticed that but it's a very useful find.
Do you know of anyone who has compiled any of these Garlick family groups from Hadfield, Gamesley or Simondley?
I'd love to contact them and see what they know.
Thanks.
Chris.

I've done a few of the Garlick family lines in the area (see https://www.gjh.me.uk/glfamhis/gfh000.htm) but this particular one unfortunately appears not to be one of them.

I've had a look in records of analyses I did years ago and found:
Joseph Garlick, = 15 Sep 1789, Sophiah Mottram of Glossop, witnesses William          Hegginbottom, Samuel Bowden. Children:
      John Garlick, bpt 28 Dec 1791, St Mary's, Charlesworth.
      Samuel Garlick, bpt 18 May 1794, St Mary's, Charlesworth.
      William Garlick, bpt 18 Jul 1796, St Mary's, Charlesworth.
      James Garlick, bpt 6 Jun 1800, St Mary's, Charlesworth.
      Martha Garlick, bpt 29 Jan 1805, St Mary's, Charlesworth.
      Ann Garlick, bpt 4 Jul 1808, St Mary's, Charlesworth.

Also (which might be the son Thomas):
John Garlick, = Betty. Child
      Thomas Garlick, bpt 14 Mar 1813, St Mary's, Charlesworth.

Unlike many of the family names in the area the Garlicks tended not to leave wills so it is difficult to tie them together.

If you oppose the proposals to destroy the original post-1858 wills, and if you are a British citizen or UK resident, please consider signing the House of Commons petition, and please share with others.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/654081

I was amused by point number 1 saying "We think costs of digital preservation and storage could be astronomical." yet the petitioner has not even attempted to address the costs of continuing to preserve the originals (as if it will be free).

And these missing documents were wills? I think not somehow.

Than you think wrongly I am afraid.

But again, no one is arguing against making digital copies. The argument is against DESTROYING THE ORIGINALS.

The argument is whether the cost to the public purse of keeping them is worth it or whether, given that alternative methods of retaining the information now exist, the money would be better spent in other ways.

It isn't always true that paper copies are good indefinitely though is it? Think about the WW1 burnt records and the 1931 census for instance.

I'm sure many of us know of data managers who have failed to make backup copies, to convert files before their original file formats go out of support or to ensure that they replace storage media before they become unreadable.
Those factors, though, are a failure of management rather than of life of the medium.

Marjorie Ward, who created the web pages referred to several years ago now, did so by studying the actual parish registers (by special arrangement) at Derbyshire Record Office because the films were not high enough quality in some instances.

The hosting of the pages appeared to be under threat after Rootsweb was acquired by Ancestry in 2000 (the pages were inaccessible for a while) so Marjorie created her own web site at http://www.nwdbysources.uk/ to make sure that the information remained (and remains) available.

Ancestry obviously made the pages accessible again but I always use Marjorie's own site now.