William Fish worked as a labourer at the Paper Mill well into his 70s.  He died in 1913.

In 1871, the family lived at Blue Mountains next door to the Grainger family and the Riddle Family, and a few doors away from James Adcock and his family, and, later George Adcock and his family. 

In all there were 18 families living in the row of cottages.

Ten years later, William and Ann and their three younger children were at Blue Mountains together with Alice’s illegitimate daughter Mary Hannah, born 1879.   Alice had another daughter, Lily in Nov.1883.  Alice married George Smith in Dec. 1883. Lily became Lily Smith.  They lived in Duffield until at least 1911. 

The Fish’s eldest son, William was married to Sarah, had two children and was living on Eaton Bank, still working at the Paper Mill.

By 1891, William and Ann Fish were living with their youngest son, Joseph (aged 23), and their grand-daughter, Mary Hannah (aged 11).

Their eldest son, William and his wife Sarah had moved from Eaton Bank back to Blue Mountains with their sons: John, William, Joseph, Albert and George.  Another son James  Harold was born in 1893.   Albert died in 1892 aged 7. They were living a few doors away from William’s parents. William was working as a Labourer at the Paper Mill.  Sarah died in 1896 (aged 36)  Soon after she died William and his 5 sons moved in with his parents.

By 1901 the Fish family household consisted of :-

William (now 70) and Ann.  William was still working at the Paper Mill.

Their son William was by then a widower aged 42. He also lived there with his sons  Joseph, (aged 18, a finisher at the Mill); George (aged 13, a cutter lad); James (aged 7, at school);

Mary Hannah (Alice’s daughter aged 21), who was a paper sorter at the Mill. also lived in the house with her uncle, cousins and Grandparents.

The family picture shows William and Ann, grandsons Joseph, George and James, and Mary Hannah.

Mary Fish was married in 1901 (after the Census) to George Miles, a labourer at the Mill (see Durose family tree). The witnesses were her sister Lily and William (Grandfather or Uncle?) Fish. They married at St Paul’s Little Eaton.

George  Miles (born 1877).  His father was William Miles, a Mill worker living in the Blue Mountains. By 1911 George and Mary Miles were living in Smalley with children:  Lily (1902, L.E.), George (1904 L.E.) Frederick (1906 Smalley), Evelyn Mary (1908 Smalley)  George, listed as a bricklayer’s labourer, died in 1913. Son George Miles married Annie Eliza Durose (nee Radford) the widow of Ina Herbert Durose, in 1941  He and Annie lived at 15, Blue Mountains for many years (see The Durose Family below).

1911 Census:  William Fish, now 80 is retired.   Ann his wife is 76.  Living with them is their youngest grandson James Harold Fish, (aged 17, a butcher). The Census form was signed by W.H.Grocock (headmaster of Little Eaton School) on behalf of William Fish. William died in 1913, Ann died in 1919 (aged 80).

Joseph Fish (1866-1952) William and Ann’s youngest son married Mary Ann Fellows (born 1876) in 1902.  They had 5 children : Eliza Ann, Mary Ellen, John William, Joseph Eric, and James. The children were all born in Little Eaton but by the 1911 Census the family were living in Derby where Joseph was a labourer sweeper. By the 1921 Census they were living in Ockbrook, Shardlow but by the 1939 Register, Joseph, Mary and their youngest son, James were back at 14, Blue Mountains. They had probably returned in the 30s as they are mentioned in local newspapers occasionally eg: In 1938 a newspaper report mentions James Peach Fish   (by then aged 25) of 14 Blue Mountains being “fined for failing to conform to a halt sign”

The same year,  his elder brother, Joseph Eric Fish, a workman employed by Trent Catchment Board, of Blue Mountains, had the misfortune to find the body of a young woman in the river Derwent. (The body was later identified as Gertrude Kings  aged 56)

Joseph Eric Fish (1909-1997) married Barbara Miriam Adcock in 1938.  The Adcock family had lived at 17, Blue Mountains for several generations. Her father was George, a stoker at the Mill, and her mother was Maria.  Barbara Miriam was one of the younger of George and Maria’s 10 or more  children.  Their grandparents James and Sarah Adcock still lived at Blue Mountains too with, by 1911, their son, Henry and his children James William born 1891, Alice, born 1895 and Rose, born 1897. Henry had married Elizabeth Rostron in 1889.  

In 1939 Joseph Eric and Barbara Miriam were living at 18, next door to Miriam’s parents

George Adcock and Maria at no. 17 (6 rooms). Next door to them at no. 19 were their daughter Muriel Kathleen and her husband John Stone (married 1932) and their son Brian, born in 1938.  George Adcock died in 1940.  Maria died in 1942 leaving  £189 to her daughter Barbara Miriam Fish. Joseph (Eric J Fish) was a builder’s labourer. He died in 1997Joseph and Barbara Miriam Fish had two children  Joseph, born 1944 and Brenda born 1947.