DONISTHORPE and OAKTHORPE are
two hamlets adjacent to each other,
about
four miles from Ashby-de-la-Zouch ; they are both partly in the parish
of Church Gresley, Donisthorpe extending into that of Nether Seal,
county
of Leicester ; and Oakthorpe stretching into Measham parish, and also
into
that of Stretton-en-le-Fields. They contained together, in
1831,
757 inhabitants.
extracted from: Pigot and
Co.'s National Commercial Directory of
Derbyshire, 1835 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History
Society) Directory Listing
DONISTHORPE, a hamlet and joint
township, with Oakthorpe, partly in
Measham parish and partly in Seal parish, Leicestershire, forms a
pleasant
village, 3½ miles S.W. from Ashby de la Zouch. 1
mile W.
from
Oakthorpe, contains 25 houses and 103 inhabitants - of whom 49 were
males
and 54 females, but the whole hamlet contains 344
inhabitants. A
district church
was erected here
in
1838, for the joint township and a part of Ashby Wolds,
Leicestershire.
It is a neat edifice, dedicated to St John, a perpetual curacy, value
£120.
Bishop of Lichfield, patron, and Rev. Francis Jickling,
incumbent.
The parsonage is a neat house, west of the church. The Misses
Moore
principally erected the church and endowed it, aided by a grant from
the
Incorporated Society, and a contribution from the Marquis of
Hastings.
It contains 400 sittings, of which 200 are unappropriated. A
national
school was erected in 1840. The inhabitants are principally
employed
at the collieries or lime works on Ashby Woulds.
OAKTHORPE. a hamlet, partly situated in the parishes of Measham and
of Stretton-en-le-Fields, forms a joint township with Donisthorpe in
Church
Gresley parish, 4 miles S.S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The
joint
township contains 1,112 acres of fertile land, of which the tithe
commisiioners,
in 1845, allotted and valued 325 acres to Measham and
Stretton-in-the-Field
parishes, and 787 to Church Gresley ; rateable value
£1,458.
Principal owners are - Sir John Robert Cave Browne Cave, Bart., Sir
Charles
Abney Hastings, Bart. ; Rev. Sir Nigel Gresley ; Charles S. Geaves,
Esq.
; Robert Choyce, Esq. ; executors of the Marquis of Hastings ; Edward
Stevenson,
Esq. ; and Repton school. This hamlet contains 139 houses, of
which
75 are in Church Gresley, 7 in Measham parish, and 57 in
Stretton-in-the-Field
parish, and the total population 607, of which 331 were in Gresley, 32
in Measham, and 244 in Stretton. Here is a national school,
and
the
Methodists and Primitive Methodists each have chapels.
extracted from: History,
Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire,
by Samuel Bagshaw, 1846 (Collection of C.B. Payne)
Directory
Listing
DONISTHORPE (St
John) an ecclesiastical district, in the
union of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, partly in the parish of Nether Seal,
Western
Division of the hundred of Goscote, Northern Division of the county of
Leicester, and partly in the parishes of Church-Gresley, Measham, and
Stretton-en-le-Fields,
hundred of Repton and Gresley, Southern Division of the county of
Derby,
3½ miles southwest from Ashby-de-la-Zouch;
containing
about
1,700 inhabitants, of whom 344 are in the hamlet of
Donisthorpe.
The district includes Oakthorpe and Moira; the Moira baths
are
celebrated
for the cure of rheumatism, and
there is a convenient hotel for the accommodation of visitors.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Bishop of
Lichfield [he appoints the clergyman]; net income,
£150,
with
a parsonage-house. The impropriate tithes of Donisthorpe have
been
commuted for £87. The church, dedicated to St John,
was
built
and endowed in 1838, at an expense of £6,000, chiefly by
three
maiden
ladies of the name of MOORE; it is a neat edifice, with a
tower
and
pinnacles. A national school was built in 1840, by Sir John
CAVE
BROWNE CAVE, Bart, by whom also, it is supported.
OAKTHORPE, a hamlet, in the union of Ashby, partly in the
parishes
of Measham and Stretton-en-le Fields, but chiefly in that of
Church-Gresley,
hundred of Repton and Gresley, Southern Division of the county of
Derby,
2 3/4 miles southwest by south from Ashby; containing 607
inhabitants.
A tithe rent-charge of £50 is paid to the Rector of Stretton,
and
one of £153 to certain impropriators. There are
places of
worship
for Baptists and Wesleyans.
extracted from: A
Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel
Lewis, 7th edition, Vol 2, 1848, p.69 & p.468,
by Sonia
Addis-Smith
DONISTHORPE and OAKTHORPE, are
two hamlets adjacent to each other,
about
four miles from Ashby-de-la-Zouch ; they are both partly in the parish
of Church-Gresley, Donisthorpe extending into that of Nether Seal, in
Leicestershire,
and Oakthorpe stretching into Measham parish, and
Stretton-en-le-Fields.
A church
was erected at
Donisthorpe,
in 1838, and dedicated to St. John ; there is also a school on the
national
plan.
extracted from: Slater's
Directory of Derbyshire, 1850 (on
microfiche
publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
Directory
Listing
DONISTHORPE, is a considerable
village, and joint township with
Oakthorpe,
partly in Measham parish, and partly in the parish of Seal,
Leicestershire,
3½ miles S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 17 miles S.W. from
Derby,
contains 366A. 0R. 35P. of land, and in 1851, had 92 houses, and 392
inhabitants,
of whom 189 were males, and 203 females ; rateable value £593
14s.
The principal owners are Sir Mylles Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Sir Charles
Abney Hastings, Bart., Rev. Sir Thomas Gresley, Charles S. Greaves
Esq.,
Robert Choyce, Esq., and Mr. William Turner. A district Church,
dedicated to St. John, was erected and endowed here in 1838,
principally
by the Misses Moor, aided by a grant from the Incorporated society, and
a contribution from the Marquis of Hastings. It is for the
joint
township and a part of Ashby Wolds, Leicestershire. It is a
neat
stone edifice, with tower and one bell, and contains 480 sittings, of
which
200 are free. The living
is a perpetual curacy, value
£140,
in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield, and incumbency of the Rev.
Francis Jickling. The parsonage is a neat brick residence,
west
of
the church. The Primitive Methodists have a small neat brick chapel
here. A National school was erected in 1840, at the sole
expense
of Lady Cave. In 1852, this school was converted into an
infant
school,
and is supported principally by that lady, the children paying a small
trifle weekly. The inhabitants are principally employed at
the
collieries
and limeworks, on Ashby Wolds. Directory
Listing
OAKTHORPE, a village, and joint township with Donisthorpe, situated
in the parishes of Measham and Stretton-en-le-Field, 3 miles S.S.W.
from
Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The joint township contains 1,112 acres of
land,
and in 1851, had 241 houses and 983 inhabitants, of whom 477 were
males,
and 506 females ; rateable value £1,458. This
hamlet
contains
745A. 3R. 5P. of land, and in 1851, had 149 houses, and 591
inhabitants,
of whom 288 were males and 303 females ; rateable value £864
6s.
The principal owners are Sir Chas. Abney Hastings, Bart., John
Peddocke,
Esq., executors of the Marquis of Hastings, Edward Stevenson, Esq., and
Repton school. The Methodists and Primitive Methodists have
each
places of worship here. Here is a lodge of the ancient order
of
Druids.
The tithes of the whole township were purchased in 1838, by Messrs.
Browne
and Kidge, of Astley, for about £800, from the executors of
the
late
Thomas Elton, Esq. Directory
Listing
extracted from: Directory of
Derbyshire, by F. White & Co.,
1857
DONISTHORPE is a considerable
village, and joint township with
Oakthorpe,
partly in Measham parish, and partly in the parish of Seal,
Leicestershire,
3½ miles S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 17 miles S.W. from
Derby.
Directory
Listing
OAKTHORPE, a village, and joint township with Donisthorpe. Directory
Listing
extracted from: Harrison,
Harrod, and Co.'s Directory and
Gazetteer of Derbyshire, 1860 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire
Family
History Society)
DONISTHORPE is a hamlet, four
miles W.S.W. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
containing
about 420 inhabitants, of whom 200 are in Seal parish, 163 in Church
Gresley
parish, and 57 in Measham parish. The two latter portions are
in
Derbyshire. Donisthorpe keeps its poor with the hamlet of
Oakthorpe
(600 souls), which is in Derbyshire, and lies in the three parishes of
Church Gresley, Measham, and Stretton-en-le-Field. The
township
of
Oakthorpe
and Donisthorpe, in in Ashby
Union. In 1838, a Church
was built at Donisthorpe, by subscription ; and the hamlets of
Donisthorpe
and Oakthorpe, with part of Ashby Wolds, were formed into an ecclesiastical
district, by the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. It is a neat
edifice,
with a tower and one bell, and near it is a good Parsonage
House.
The perpetual curacy,
valued at £145 per annum, is in the
patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield, and incumbency of the Rev.
Francis
Jickling. A National
School was built here in 1840,
by
the
late Sir John Browne Cave, Bart., whose family owns a great part of the
hamlet. Here is a Primitive
Methodist Chapel,
erected in 1853, and a Pillar
Letter Box.
Post from Ashby. Directory
Listing
extracted from: History,
Gazetteer, and Directory of the Counties
of Leicester and Rutland, by William White, 1863 (on microfiche publ.
by
the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society)
OAKTHORPE (N.B. This directory
only includes the part of Oakthorpe
hamlet
lying within Stretton-en-le-Field parish)
extracted from: C.N. Wright's
Directory of South Derbyshire,
October
1874 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)Directory
Listing
DONISTHORPE is an
ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1838 from the
civil
parishes of Church Gresley, Measham and Stretton-en-le-Field, and
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
and Seal, in Leicestershire, in the rural deanery of Hartshorne,
archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Lichfield. DONISTHORPE and OAKTHORPE hamlets
form
a joint township in this ecclesiatical parish. Donisthorpe
parish
is in the Southern division of the county, partly in the hundred of
Repton
and Gresley and partly in that of West Goscote, in the union and county
court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 114 miles from London, 3
south-west
from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 8 south-east from
Burton-upon-Trent.
Here
is a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton joint line of the Midland and
London
and North Western railways. The church
of St. John is a building in the
Perpendicular style, erected in
1838,
and consisting of chancel, nave, and western tower containing a clock
and
1 bell. The register dates from the year 1838. The
living
is
a vicarage, yearly value £210, with residence, in the gift of
the
Bishop of Lichfield and held by the Rev. Francis Spedding B.A. of
Emmanuel
College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan
Reform chapel. A
cemetery, containing 1½ acres of
ground,
was opened here in 1875. There is a colliery, worked by
Messrs.
Checkland,
Son and Williams. The principal landowners are the Earl of
Loudoun,
Sir Mylles Cave-Brown-Cave bart. Messrs. G. Cooper, S. Greaves, Drewry,
and some small freeholders. The soil is mixed : subsoil,
chiefly
clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, and oats.
The area
is 447 acres ; rateable value £4,059. The
population of the
hamlet of Donisthorpe in 1881 was 772. Parish
Clerk,
Joseph
Plummer. Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch, which is the
nearest
money order office. Thomas Talbot, receiver.
Letters arrive
at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.25 p.m. on week days ; & at
10.40
a.m.
on sunday. National
School, Miss Annie Jewsbury,
mistress.
Railway
Station, William Hemming,
station master. Directory
Listing
OAKTHORPE is a hamlet, in the parishes of Church Gresley, Measham and
Stretton-en-le-Field, hundreds of Repton and Gresley, and West Goscote,
union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 3 miles
south-west
from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 10 north from Atherstone. There
are
chapels
for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Reformers. There is a
colliery
worked by the Moira Company. Lord Donington is lord of the
manor.
The principal landowners are the Earl of Loudoun, Lord Donington and
Thomas
Wright esq. and the Governors of Repton school. The area is
715
acres
; rateable value, £2,751. Letters through
Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
which is the nearest money order office. National
School,
Miss Mary Greenway, mistress. Directory
Listing
extracted from: Kelly's
Directory of Nottinghamshire,
Leicestershire
& Rutland, and Derbyshire, 1881 (on microfiche publ. by the
Derbyshire
Family History Society)
DONISTHORPE is a parish formed
in 1838 from the civil parishes of
Church
Gresley, Measham, and Stretton-en-le-Field, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Seal,
in Leicestershire, in the rural deanery of Hartshorne, archdeaconry of
Derby and diocese of Southwell. DONISTHORPE and OAKTHORPE
hamlets
form a joint township in this ecclesiatical parish.
Donisthorpe
parish
is in the Southern division of the county, partly in the hundred of
Repton
and Gresley and partly in that of West Goscote, Swadlincote petty
sessional
division, in the union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
114 miles from London, 3 south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 8
south-east
from Burton-upon-Trent. Here is a station on the Ashby and
Nuneaton
joint line of the Midland and London and North Western
railways.
The church
of St. John is a
building
of grey sandstone in the Perpendicular style, erected in 1838, and
consisting
of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower, surmounted by
pinnacles,
and containing a clock and 1 bell : there are 500 sittings, 200 being
free.
The register dates from the year 1838. The living is a
vicarage,
net yearly value £200, including 17 acres of glebe, with
residence,
in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1885 by the Rev.
Edward Bertram Lavies T.A.K.C.I. Here are two Primitive
Methodist chapels. A
cemetery, containing 1½ acres of
ground, was opened here in 1875, and is under the control of a burial
board
of 9 members. There is a colliery, worked by Messrs.
Checkland,
Son
and Williams. The principal landowners are Lord Donington,
Sir
Mylles
Cave-Brown-Cave bart. Messrs. G. Cooper, S. Greaves, Drewry, and some
small
freeholders. The soil is mixed ; subsoil, chiefly
clay. The
chief crops are wheat, barley, and oats. The area is 1,162
acres
: rateable value, £6,621. The population for the
township
in
1881 was 1,494, and of the parish was 2,600. Parish Clerk,
Joseph
Plummer. Post & Money Order Office & Savings
Bank. -
Thomas
Talbot, receiver. Letters arrive through Ashby-de-la-Zouch at
7
a.m.
; dispatched at 5.25 p.m. on week days, & arriving at 7.30 a.m.
&
dispatched at 10.40 a.m. on sundays. Overseal is the nearest
telegraph
office. Insurance Agent :- Phoenix Fire, W. Hunt.
National
School (mixed), erected in 1830 for 66 children ; average attendance,
80
; Miss Elizabeth Moore, mistress. Directory
Listing
OAKTHORPE is a hamlet in the parish of Donisthorpe, hundreds of Repton
and Gresley and West Goscote, union and county court district of
Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
and 3 miles south-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. There are
chapels
for
Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Reformers. There is a
colliery
worked by the Moira Company. Lord Donington is lord of the
manor.
The principal landowners are the Earl of Loudoun, Lord Donington and
Thomas
Wright esq. and the governors of Repton school. Post Office,
Thomas
Betteridge, receiver. - Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch arrive at
7.30
a.m. ; sundays 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. ; sundays,
dispatched
at 10.20 a.m. Ashby-de-la-Zouch is the nearest money order
&
telegraph office. Wesleyan School (mixed), erected in 1875
for
108
children ; average attendance, 70 ; Miss Alice Canwell,
mistress.
Carrier to Ashby, Eli Cashmore, saturdays. Directory
Listing
extracted from: Kelly's
Directory of Derbyshire, 1887 (on
microfiche
publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
DONISTHORPE is a
parish formed in 1838 from the civil parishes
of Church Gresley, Measham, and Stretton-en-le-Field, and
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
and Seal, in Leicestershire, with a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton
joint
line of the Midland and London and North Western railways, 3 miles
south-west
from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 8 south-east from Burton-upon-Trent and 114
from
London, in the Southern division of the county of Derby and the Western
division of Leicestershire, hundreds of Repton, Gresley, West Goscote,
Swadlincote petty sessional division, union and county court district
of
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, riral deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and
diocese
of Southwell. Donisthorpe and Oakthorpe hamlets form a joint
township
in this ecclestiastical parish. The church
of St. John the Evangelist,
erected in 1838, is a building of grey
sandstone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of nave, west porch
and
an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and one
bell : the nave was restored in 1889-90, at a cost of £350,
and
further
restorations were effected in 1891, at a cost of £220 : there
are
500 sittings, 200 being free. The register dates from the
year
1838.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, icluding 17
acres
of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and
held
since 1885 by the Rev. Edward Bertram Lavies T.A.K.C.L. Here
are
two Primitive
Methodist chapels.
A cemetery, containing 1½ acres was opened in 1875, and is
under
the control of the Parish Council of Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe and
Urban
District Council of Moira. There is a colliery, worked by
Messrs.
Checkland, Son and Williams, and the brewery of G. and W.F.
Cooper.
The principal landowners are Lord Donington, Sir Mylles Cave-Brown-Cave
bart. Messrs. W.F. Cooper, S. Greaves, Drewry and some small
freeholders.
The soil is mixed ; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops
are
wheat,
barley, and oats. The area is 1,162 acres : rateable value,
including
Oakthorpe, £6,746 ; the population for the township in 1891
was
1,678,
and of the parish 2,955. Post, M.O. & T.O, S.B.,
Express
Delivery
& Annuity & Insurance Office. - Thomas Talbot,
sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive through Ashby-de-la-Zouch at 6.40 a.m. ; dispatched at
6.15
p.m. on week days & arriving at 7.15 a.m. & dispatched
at 11.45
a.m. on sundays. National School (mixed), erected in 1830,
for 66
children ; average attendance, 82 ; Frank Walton, master.
Railway
Station, Thomas Choyce, station master. Directory
Listing
OAKTHORPE is a hamlet in the parish of Donisthorpe, hundreds of Repton
and Gresley and West Goscote, union and county court district of
Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
and 3 miles south-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Here are
Primitive
Methodist,
Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels. Lord Donington is lord
of
the
manor. The principal landowners are the Earl of Loudoun, Lord
Donington,
Thomas Wright esq. and the governors of Repton school. Post
Office.
- Thomas Betteridge, sub-postmaster. Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch
arrive at 7.15 a.m. ; sundays, 7.55 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.55 p.m. ;
sundays,
dispatched at 11.15 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but
not
paid.
Donisthorpe is the nearest money order & telegraph
office.
Wesleyan
School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 108 children ; average attendance
70 ; Alfred Baylis, master. Directory
Listing
extracted from: Kelly's
Directory of Derbyshire, 1895 (on
microfiche
publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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Donisthorpe
Baptism, Marriage & Burial Registers
The original parish registers for St John the Evangelist, Donisthorpe,
are held at the Lichfield Record Office, as follows: Baptisms
(1838-1974),
Marriages (1838-1990) and Burials (1838-1976). The LDS Church has only
filmed the Bishop's Transcripts for the period 1838-1869.
Some Donisthorpe baptisms from the period 1838-1864 (I assume extracted
from BTs) are included on the IGI, and may be searched on-line from the
LDS
Family Search web site. Be
warned, however, that they are probably
incomplete. Use Batch # C059311
in the relevant field.
Donisthorpe
Burials 1838-1848 TranscriptSurname
Index Transcribed by Debbie
Goldsmith & indexed by Brett
Payne
Debbie is currently transcribing burials for the post-1838 period,
and has very kindly offered to do look-ups in the mean time. Please
contact
her directly with your queries.
1841 Census of Oakthorpe
TranscriptSurname
Index
Transcribed
by Gill
Castle & indexed by Brett
Payne
1841
Census of Donisthorpe TranscriptSurname
Index (including the
Leicestershire portion of the parish)
Transcribed by Gill
Castle (Derbyshire) & Debbie
Goldsmith (Leicestershire) & indexed by Brett
Payne
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