On 5 October 2008 the Dethick family held a reunion at the Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall in Holloway, near to Dethick.
Inspired by Enzo Gilini and organised by Arthur Greaves (whose mother was Mabel Dethick) his wife Sheila and Arthur's second cousin Janet Kinrade Dethick, daughter of singer John Dethick, it brought together the descendants of the Dethicks of Atlow and a representative of the Dethicks of Ashbourne.
The Dethicks of Atlow were descended from Thomas Dethick of Hognaston - whose parentage is uncertain - and his wife Melicent Hously, who lived in the same village but whose family originated from Hope, Derbyshire. Thomas and Melicent were married in Carsington Parish Church in February 1742. Their grandson John married Dorothy Buckley from Marston Montgomery in 1797 and it was from two of their sons - John (1802) and George (1804) - that all those present except Jane Spark, wife of Ian Fielder (see below) were descended.
John (1802) and his wife Elizabeth Hardy who he married in 1829 in Atlow had three children - Lucy, Thomas (1833) and George (1835). Thomas' son Herbert and his wife Frances Gaskin were respresented as were George and his wife Eliza Holmes from Ellastone, Staffordshire. Of Thomas and Frances' twelve children descendants of Frederick Herbert, Walter and Edward were present. Of George and Eliza's six children respresentatives of Sarah, Frank, Walter and Joseph were present.
George (1804) married Sarah Cooper and of their five survivng sons descendants of George and Emma Moorcroft and Henry and Mary Ann Petts were present. This branch established itself at Sturston Mill near Ashbourne in the middle of the 19th Century.
Jane Spark is descended from Ralph Deathwick of Ashbourne who married Hannah Mycock of Rocester. Their eldest son William married Sarah Walker in Trentham Staffordshire in 1808 and their son William became a partner in Cooper and Dethick of Viaduct Works,Longton in the 1880s. Jane is descended from William's sister Elizabeth.
Other Dethick descendants were not able to be present. These included those Dethicks from the Hognaston-Worksop-Manchester Branch - some of whom are in Australia, and from the Hognaston -London branch. Descendants of three of George and Eliza's children who live in Australia were also absent.
To commemorate the occasion a celebration goblet engraved with the Dethick Coat of Arms was on sale at the event. The book A History of the Dethick Familhy of Dethick 1200 -1918 by Janet Kinrade Dethick, published by Lulu.com.and available from Amazon had already been published in the spring.
