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Laughton En Le Morthen
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The Ancient Parish of LAUGHTON EN LE MORTHEN
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"LAUGHTON EN LE MORTHEN, a parish-town, in the upper division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; 6 miles SW. of Tickhill, 7 from Rotherham, 8 from Worksop, (Notts.) 10 from Bawtry, 80 from York. Pop. 652. The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, ~£6. 13s. 4d. p.r. !£4. Patron, the Chancellor of York,""BROOKHOUSE, a hamlet in the township and parish of Laughton en le Morthen, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; 5 miles from Tickhill."
"CARR, a hamlet in the township and parish of Laughton en le Morthen, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 5 miles from Tickhill, 6½ from Rotherham."
"SLADE HOOTON, in the township and parish of Laughton en le Morthen, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; (the seat of William Murfin, Esq.) 5 miles S.W. of Tickhill, 7½ from Rotherham."
"THURCROFT, (the seat of Captain Butler) in the township and parish of Laughton en le Morthen, and parish of Maltby, upper division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Tickhill, 6½ from Rotherham, 9 from Bawtry."
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- All Saints' Church, Laughten en le Morthen view 1.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The East Window
- All Saints' Church, Laughten en le Morthen view 2.
- The Church of St. Simon and St. Jude, Thurcroft.
- The Christian Fellowship Church, Thurcroft, formerly the Roman Catholic Church.
- The former Methodist Chapel, Thurcroft, the upper storey was later used as a cinema.
- All Saints' Church, Laughten en le Morthen view 1.
- Transcript of the entry for Laughton en le Morthen in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Letwell with Gildingwells in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Thropham in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Thorpe Salvin in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The following transcriptions are transcriptions of transcriptions originally done in 1988 by Wath and Mexborough Archives. These documents have many typographical errors and so we cannot vouch for the accuracy in the original transcription. If you find anything of interest here, please be sure to check the original Parish Registers source material.
Transcriptions by Jack Parry of:- The Baptism Registers for Laughton en le Morthen Parish:
- 1568-1589, 1590-1599, 1600-1609, 1610-1619, 1620-1629, 1630-1639, 1640-1649, 1650-1659,
- 1660-1669, 1670-1679, 1680-1689, 1690-1699, 1700-1709, 1710-1719, 1720-1729, 1730-1739,
- 1740-1749, 1750-1759, 1760-1769, 1770-1779, 1780-1789, 1790-1799, 1800-1809, 1810-1819,
- 1820-1829, 1830-1839, 1840-1849, 1850-1859, 1860-1869, 1870-1879, 1880-1889, 1890-1899,
- 1900-1909, 1910-1914, 1915-1919, 1920-1924, 1925-1929, 1930-1934, 1935-1939, 1940-1944,
- 1945-1949.
- The Marriage Registers for Laughton en le Morthen Parish:
- The Burial Registers for Laughton en le Morthen Parish:
- 1561-1599, 1600-1629, 1630-1649, 1650-1669, 1670-1689, 1690-1709, 1710-1729, 1730-1749,
- 1750-1769, 1770-1789, 1790-1809, 1810-1829, 1830-1849, 1850-1869, 1870-1889, 1890-1899,
- 1900-1909, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1952.
- The List of Vicars in All Saints Church, Laughton en le Morthen.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Laughton en le Morthen.
- The Baptism Registers for Laughton en le Morthen Parish:
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Laughton En Le Morthen to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK521880 (Lat/Lon: 53.386282, -1.218138), Laughton En Le Morthen 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.
- The Roll of Honour in All Saints Church, Laughton en le Morthen.
- The War Memorial in the Churchyard at Laughton en le Morthen.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SK512872) Laughton Common
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.