White’s 1857 Directory of Derbyshire
 

ODDITIES


This section is for all those little things that brought a smile to my face, the funny spellings and strange names that appear in the directory. I will start off, but if you see something and like to share it with other, please mail me at



Where there are names, the surname is in capitals and you do not get names like these now days.

How many spelling for Ashbourne can be found?

                    Ashbourn,
                    Ashbonrn,
                    Ashborne,
                    Ashburn,

Any more? I actually found it spelt Ashbourne on page 768.
P 197 – A butcher whose address was the ‘Gutter’

P 199 Surname – LOVEROCK (the original Love on the rocks?)

P 200 Trade – Sinker Maker (please let me know what this involved?)

 

From Malise McGuire who is a member of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society
According to the Oxford Universal Dictionary [1971] a sinker maker is one who engraves figures or designs on dies. 1526. [die-sinker]
One who sinks a pit shaft, well, or the like [1708]
In a stocking frame or knitting machine, a jack-sinker or lead sinker 1779.

 

From Chris Chapman - researching Throwley Hall in Staffs, involving the original owner Sir Sampson Meverell.
The framework knitters resurrected their organisation once again early in 1845,
meeting at the Pheasant Inn in Derby. Chaired by Samuel Corden, the meeting
resolved that only an abolition of frame rents and the establishment of local
boards of trade to oversee prices and quality of work would alleviate the
periodic distress of the workers in the industry. The knitters decided to invite
framesmiths, setters up, sinker makers and needle makers to join with the
knitters in one "consolidated union for mutual protection".
Derby Mercury October 28th 1846


P 204 Surname – GODBEHERE (God be here)

P262 First name – HARTSHORN Zacariah

P 268 – Mr. John Soar has a loaf of bread in his possession, in good preservation, the date upon it is April 15th, 1450. It was given as a dole at the funeral of one of the Stanhope family. Where is it now?
P 269 Thulston 2 public houses
Bricklayer’s Arms, vict., FORD Mary, also listed is Ford John who is a bricklayer.
Horse Shoes, vict., STANLEY William, who was also a blacksmith.

P 315 Trade – SANDAY John, pig jobber

P 315 Surname – SENHOUSE Mrs. Elizabeth

P 315 First name – Lettuce SIMPKIN

 

P 486 Name – NELSON Horatio pork butcher - and I thought he was in the navy.

P 664 Surname – BULLIVONT Charles, surveyor & builder

P 666 Listed under Wine, and Spirit Merchant, (& brewer) a person called Euphemia ROLLING.

P 673 Surname – GOODLAD Samuel (but was he a good lad).

P 696 First name – STEVENSON Olinthus, registr. of births & deaths

P 696 Trade – Besom maker ???

 

From Elizabeth Smith
Re your query about besoms, they are a kind of broom, the traditional witches broom in fact, still being made from Birch twigs and used mostly nowadays for sweeping lawns to spread worm casts.

P 758 A mathematical question for you?
….. noted as the birthplace of the celebrated arithmetical calculator, Jedediah BUXTON, …. a person once proposed to him this question: in a body, the three sides of which are 23,145,789 yards, 5,642,732 yards, and 54,965 yards, how many cubic eighths of an inch. In about 5 hours he actually solved this intricate problem, ….
Answers on a Post Card please.

P 702 First name – FROGGATT Ezekiah, a farmer form Watshelf

P 787 Steetley – In 1828 several bodies were discovered in the burial ground. What did they expect to find?

 

From Mike Spencer

Smalley people are listed as under Ockbrook! A monumental gaffe by White, or the printer.

I have been doing a Todays Journey on the area and have numerous documents to definitely clarify that although it mentions Smalley Township it is then followed by Ockbrook Parish (of which Smalley was never a part,) and then Smalley inhabitants.

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