Mackworth

The Macworth Public Library is a modern-looking structure on Prince Charles Avenue off of Ashbourne Road and it is open 4 days per week. In 2019 this became The Mackworth Community Library.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Library on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

Alternatively, the nearby Derby City Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

We have a window of Parish Register burials (partially) extracted for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

• The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints. This church is located north of the village, across the A52 trunk road on Church Lane.
   
• The church chancel dates from about 1310. The tower and spire date from about 1360.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1851.
   
• The clock was installed in the tower in 1872.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• The church appears to be minimally used at present.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in 1991.

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1611 and is in good condition.
   
• The Anglican parish chest dates from 1640.
   
• Marriages at Mackworth, 1603-1812 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
   
• Geoff PICK provides a photograph of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.

"MACKWORTH, a parish, with a small village, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, is situate on the road from Derby to Ashbourn, two miles and a half from the former, and ten and a half from the latter town. Here is a neat church, dedicated to All Saints, and in the neighbourhood, are the vestiges of a castle; the south gate of the edifice, which is entire, forms the entrance to a farm-house. The castle was the ancient seat of the De Mackworths, and was probably demolished during the parliamentary war. The parish (including the township of Mark-Eaton), contained, in the last census, 621 inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Mackworth is 128 miles north of the City of London.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Mackworth entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Mackworth entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Mackworth from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Mackworth to another place.

• See Woolley's 1712 History of the parish.
   
• There is a booklet written by Rosemary LUCAS, "The Manor of Markeaton, Mackworth and Allestree, 1650 - 1851", 84 pages, published by the author, available in local libraries. It is on local, not family history.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK320378 (Lat/Lon: 52.936649, -1.525329), Mackworth which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

In 1891, Lieut.-Gen. James Sinclair THOMPSON resided at Bowbridge. He would die in Ireland in 1924.

There was a Roll of Honour on the wall of All Saints Church on Lower Road, that now appears to be lost. It was destroyed in a fire on 4th/5th December, 2020. The roof had collapsed by the time the emergency services arrived and the contents of the building were destroyed. The Derbyshire Live webiste tells us, on 11 Dec 2017 that "a new war memorial in Prince Charles Avenue" is under construction.

A photograph of the Roll of Honour can be found at Derbyshire War Memorials.

The Roll of Honour (above) appears to have had these names on it:

1. pte. William R. MADDOCKS
2. A. Douglas TYLER

From the Derbyshire War Memorials site, the Roll of Honor (sorted by surname) said:

God save the King.
ROLL OF HONOUR ~
THE FOLLOWING PARISHIONERS AND
MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION HAVE
OFFERED THEMSELVES FOR THE SERVICE
OF THEIR
KING AND COUNTRY
YOUR INTERCESSIONS ON THEIR BEHALF ARE DESIRED.

1. Arthur Abel
2. William Abel
3. Arthur Adams
4. George Adams
5. A. E. Barber
6. H. Barker
7. Alfred Beck
8. J. E. Beighton
9. Chas. Henry Biddulf
10. E. Bloor
11. Frederick Boast
12. Percy Bradshaw
13. Richard Bryer (Killed in action)
14. Ronald Bryer
15. Job Bull
16. W. Caldwell
17. John Chadwick
18. William Cotteril
19. N Cousins
20. Gordon Darnell
21. Frank Dyke
22. Walter Easterfield
23. G. S. G. (Sydney) Feather
24. Jesse Gibbs
25. George Hammond
26. Albert Haynes
27. C. M. Hobson
28. John Hughes
29. Henry Wm. Hutchings
30. Frank W. Jagger
31. Herbert Jesson
32. John Edgar Keene (Killed in action 30/11/1915). CWGC has died on 1-Dec-1915.
33. C. Kent
34. Harry Kirkland
35. Jasper Kirkland
36. J. P. Lawrence (Killed in action 6/5/15)
37. George Walter Lee (Killed in action)
38. Fred Lewis
39. Alfred Litherland
40. E. S. Litherland
41. Timothy Litherland
42. John L. Machin
43. W. J. Machin
44. Wm. Maddocks (Australia)
45. H. B. McMinn
46. Hugo Mellor
47. W. H. M. Mitchell
48. R. W. R. Mills
49. R. F. Moon
50. E. S. Moulton-Barrett
51. Basil J. Murfin
52. Francis Kerby Murfin
53. R. F. Murfin (Died of wounds in Germany 1917)
54. C. D. Newland
55. George Prosser
56. Alan B. Pybus
57. E. M. Pybus
58. C. Radford
59. Thos. Radford (New Zealand)
60. Wilfred Radford
61. Joseph B. Richardson
62. Harold Rogers
63. Norman Sabine
64. John Shephard
65. C. Simpson
66. E. C. Smith
67. George Stephen Smith
68. Thos. W. Smith
69. Trevor Spalton
70. W. J. Sullivan (Canada)
71. J. Taylor
72. J. Thorpe (Killed in action)
73. J. M. Trelawny
74. J. Tunnicliffe
75. W. Tunnicliffe
76. F. D. Turner
77. Joe Warner
78. Fred West
79. L. H. Worlledge

Mackworth Parish Church.

• This parish included the ancient townships of Macworth and Markeaton.
   
• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
   
• Crowshaw's charity of £28 yearly is for bread for the poor.
   
• Other charities, of £36 yearly value, are distributed in money.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1763.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

• A school was built here in 1826 in Markeaton to serve both townships. The school was just for girls, but by 1857 served both sexes.
   
• A school was built in Macworth in 1835 to serve both townships.
   
• A Parochial (mixed) School in Mackworth was erected in 1868, for 100 children.
   
• There is an article about Thomas RUSSEL and his School at Mackworth in the Derbyshire Family History Society Journal, Issue 74, September 1995, pp23-6, which includes not only an account of the school, but also a list of the pupils and staff recorded on 1841-71 censuses.
   
• Mackworth College, on the south-west side of the village, merged with Wilmorton College to become Derby College. Most of the buildings are now gone, but Malcolm NEAL has this photograph of D Block Mackworth College on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2004, before it was demolished.