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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Measham, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.259-260 |
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MEASHAM is a township, village and parish, on the road from
Ashby-de-la-Zouch to Tamworth, with a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton
joint line of the Midland and London and North Western railways, 3
miles south-south-west from Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, 112 from London and
10 south-east from Burton-upon-Trent, in a detached part of the Southern
division of the county, hundred of Repton and Gresley, Swadlincote
petty sessional division, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union and county court
district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal passes through the village
and the parish is bounded on the east and south by the river Mease.
The church of St. Lawrence is a building of stone, consisting of clerestoried
nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower,
with pinnacles, containing a clock and 4 bells, the first three dated
respectively 1606, 1618 and 174, the fourth bearing an invocation
in Lombardic capitals, the church was evidently rebuilt throughout
during the Decorated period, c. 1300, and has a remarkable
porch with semicircular stone ribs, and in the north aisle a small
circular window of exceptional character: in the Perpendicular period
the nave was new-roofed, the arcade wall raised and a clerestory formed:
the church was renovated about the year 1843, when all that was left
of the ancient glass was worked up into new and glaring designs :
the font is an octagon, panelled and carved with quatrefoils : there
are 606 sittings, 300 being free. The register dates from the year
1681 for all entries and is in good condition. The living is a vicarage,
yearly value £80, including 22 acres of glebe, with residence,
in the gift of Lord Donington, and held since 1852 by the Rev. John
Hewetson H.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The Catholic chapel,
dedicated to St. Charles, was built in 1881 and has a school attached.
There are also Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A cemetery
of two acres was formed in 1880 at a cost of £1,900, and is
under the control of a burial board of nine members ; there is a keeper's
lodge with board room attached. There is a village library of 600
volumes. The charities left by Susannah and Deborah Hall and James
Abney, of Willesley, for distribution amount to about £60 yearly.
The manufacture of small ware is the staple trade, which, with the
adjacent collieries, gives employment to many of the inhabitants:
there is also a brewery. Measham Hall, the seat of Mrs. Abney, a noble
brick-built mansion, surrounded by a spacious park of 33 acres, stands
at a short distance from the village. The chief landowners are Lord
Donington, who is lord of the manor, George John Moore esq. and Mrs.
Yeomans. The soil is medium; subsoil, sand and clay. The land is mostly
in pasture. The acreage is 1,490 acres ; rateable value, £6,173;
the population of the township in 1881 was 1,677 and in the parish
1,769. Parish Clerk. William Pickering. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Thomas Adey, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Atherstone at 5.55 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.45 p.m. including sunday SCHOOLS:- National (mixed), erected in 1829 & enlarged in 1837, for 240 children; average attendance, 132 ; George Reddish master Infants', erected in 1829 & enlarged in 1883, for 120 infants ; average attendance, 85; Miss R. Hayden mistress Catholic (mixed & infants), to hold 130; average attendance, 100 ; Mrs. Bamber, mistress Police Station, Sergeant James Lester & one constable Railway Station, George Sears, station master CARRIER to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Thomas Queney, daily Abney Mrs. Measham hall Adamson Mrs Fagan Rev. Joseph [Catholic] Freeman Capt. George Badkin Hewetson Rev. John M.A. Vicarage Kyle William Thomas M.D Spencer Mrs Thompson Edmund John Yeomans Mrs Yeomans Mrs. Thomas COMMERCIAL. Adey Thomas, shoe maker & news agent, Post office Armston Harry, pork butcher Atkins James, shoe maker Ball Thomas, brewers' agent Ball William, butcher & grazier Bell John, farmer Blake Thomas G. registrar of births & deaths Bonas John, general dealer Bonas Thomas, general dealer Bonas Wright, shoe dlr. & assistant oversr Boss Michael, boiler maker Bradford Joseph, wheelwright Bryer Benjamin,farmr. Measham house Bywater Thomas, chimney sweeper Cemetery (Philip Ball, Measham, clerk to the burial board; Thos. G. Blake, registrar; Edward Hoult, lodge kpr) Chamberlain Rebecca (Mrs.), burnishing stone manufacturer Clamp Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer Clarke Henry, builder Cooper William Hutchinson, Queen's Head P.H Dennis Joseph, shopkeeper Dumelow William, hair dresser Ensor Richard, shopkeeper Hart William Cooper, harness maker Hinks Joshua, butcher Ison Thomas, builder & shopkeeper Jackson Walter, watch maker Johnson George, stationer Kinson John, Swan inn Kyle Thomas William M.D., M.ch. surgeon & medical officer of health, Ashby Woulds urban district & Ashby-de-la-Zouch rural district, & certifying factory surgeon Latham John & Charles, builders Latham Joseph, grocer & general dealr Laundon Thos. H. Union hotel, & saddlr Lewin & Son, drapers Liggins Luke, grocer Lilley John, builder Lunn Henry, general dealer Malcolm Oliver, ironmonger & tinplate worker Moore Alfred John, coach builder Moore George, hay & straw dealer Orgill Daniel, painter & farmer Orgill Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Orgill Matthew, coal merchant Parritt Thomas, farmer Parrott James, beer retailer Pattrick Norman, grocer Pattrick William, chemist Pickering Thomas, market gardener Pickering William, market gardener Pointon Joseph, Navigation inn, & joiner & builder Ratcliff John, farmer Read Philip, White Hart P.H Rice John, blacksmith Ridgway John, shopkeeper Ridgway Joseph, farmer Robinson H. Pennington & Co. smallware manufacturers Saddington Edwin, farmer & dealer Sears George, station master Sharpe Lewis, baker Shields John Gilles, brewer Smith Henry, bricklayer Smith Thomas, carpenter Spencer John, butcher Stanfield John, general draper Starbuck John, butcher Statham John, tailor Stevenson Alice (Mrs.), Bird-in-Hand P.H Thirlby Arthur Harry, painter Thompson Edmund John, surgeon, & medical officer & public vaccinator 6th district, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union & Twycross district, Market Bosworth union Wade John, linen draper Whitworth Thomas, grocer, provision & corn dealer Wileman Martha (Mrs.), beer retailer Wileman William, stone letter cutter Wilkins Thomas, tailor Wright Benjamin, shoe maker Yeomans Samuel, baker &c [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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