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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Pilsley, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.284 |
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| PILSLEY is a township
and parish, formed Jan. 30, 1874, out of North Wingfield, about 2
miles north-west from Doe Hill and about 3 miles from Clay Cross stations
on the main line of the Midland railway, about 6 miles south from
Chesterfield and 5 north-east from Alfreton, in the Chesterfield division
of the county, hundred of Scarsdale, Chesterfield union, Alfreton
petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery
of Chesterfield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The
church of St. Mary, erected in 1875, is a building of stone in the
Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south
aisle, north porch, vestry, and a turret containing one bell : there
are 360 sittings. The register dates from the year 1874. The living
is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £41, net yearly value
£122, £100 of which is paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
with 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of the rector of North Wingfield,
and held since 1888 by the Rev. Samuel Curling Hayward, of the Univ.
of Durham, who resides at Morton, about 1½ miles distant from
the church. There are Wesleyan, Methodist, New Connexion, Primitive
Methodist and Free Methodist chapels. R. S. W. Sitwell esq. J.P. of
Stainsby House, John Stephen Sampson, James Harker and Thomas Holdsworth
esqrs. are the chief landowners. The soil and subsoil vary, but clay
and loam predominate. The chief crops are wheat and pasture. The acreage
is 1,594; rateable value, £12,361; the population in 1871 was
1,076; and in 1881 was 1,821. NETHER PILSLEY is commonly called Lower Pilsley, and forms part of the village. POST, M. O., S. D. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-William Frederick Clayton, sub-postmaster. Letters are received from Chesterfield via Clay Cross; delivery commences at 8 15 a.m. ; box cleared for dispatch at 4.30 p.m. & 7.30 p.m. The nearest telegraph Office is at Doe Hill station WALL LETTER Box cleared at 4.40 & 7.40 p.m Board School, under the Clay Lane United District School Board, erected in 1875-6, for 136 boys, 112 girls & 140 infants ; average attendance, 141 boys, 120 girls & 138 infants ; teachers, Alfred Durrant, boys' ; Miss Hannah Godber, girls' ; Miss Sarah Granger, infants' Board School Park, house, erected in 1889, for 150 boys, 150 girls & 100 infants ; average attendance, 130 boys, 130 girls & 80 infants ; John S. May, master; Miss Margaret M. Shephard, mistress; Miss Alice M. Neale, infants' mistress CARRIER-David Mosley, to Chesterfield on wednesdays & saturdays; to Mansfield on Thursday Sampson Mrs Storer Edward Arthur, Manor house Wilkinson Thos. High Coney Green ho COMMERCIAL. Alvey Joseph, shopkeeper Biggin Charles, sec. to Pilsley Colliery Go. &; assist. overseer & rate collector Boot Sarah (Mrs.), grocer Booth John. farmer, Bushey park Bower George, farmer Bower William Anthony, farmer Brazenall Grace (Mrs.), grocer Brocksopp John, commercial & family hotel Brown George, boot & shoe maker Brown George, draper Brown Henry, shopkeeper Cartwright Samuel, deputy to Pilsley Colliery Co Churm William, shopkeeper Clay Richard, Star P.H. Coope Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cooper George, beer retailer & shopkpr Co-operative Stores (Edward Crowe, manager) Crofts William, shopkeeper Crow John, farmer Cutts George, farmer Cutts Joseph, coke contractor for Clay Cross Co. Cutts Samuel, Gladstone P.H. grocer, butcher & agent for T. Cooper & Co. brewers, Burton-on-Trent Cutts Jsph. jun. farmer, Hallgate farm Dickens William, farmer Drabble William John, draper &c Draycott Joseph, shopkeeper Durrance Robert, storekeeper to Pilsley Colliery Co Fensome Samuel, boot maker Fletcher Samuel, smallware dealer Forester Thomas, fruiterer Greaves Abraham, pharmaceutical chemist & druggist (William Fredk. Clayton, manager) Hall William, joiner & wheelwright Hallam Robert, underviewer to Pilsley Colliery Co Haslam William, blacksmith Haynes George, shopkeeper Hays Alfred, farmer Hays Henry, farmer Hays Henry, jun. farmer Hays Henry, boot & shoe maker Hewood Joseph, farmer Hodgson George, farmer, Park house Holdsworth Thomas, managing director Pilsley Colliery Co Hollis Reuben, Willow Tree P.H.& brewer, butcher & farmer Hudson Hy. bricklayer to Colliery Co Hurt Thomas, farmer Lomas George Henry, farmer Mills William, shopkeeper Mosley David, carrier & farmer Nix Brian, farmer Parker Francis R. butcher, grocer, provision merchant & farmer Pilsley Colliery Co. (Thomas Holdsworth, managing director; Samuel Rayner, certificated manager) Porrington Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Rayner Samuel, certificated manager to Pilsley Colliery Co Rouse Charles, builder & stone mason Sampson John Stephen, farmer & landowner Selby Thomas, blacksmith Spetch William Jn. stationer & newsagent Storer Edward Arthur, farmer & landowner, Manor house Thorpe Wm. cashier to Pilsley Colliery Co Tomlinson John, surveyor to Pilsley Colliery Co Twelves John W. draper Unwin John, grocer & farmer Wallwin William, grocer Wild Edward, shopkeeper Wilson Rowland, farmer Wilson Henry, farmer, Ten acres Wilson Oliver, wheelwright & joiner Wilson Thomas, farmer Windley Stephen, stationer, bookseller, bookbinder & newsagent; dealer in parer hangings & picture frame ma Wood William, farmer Wright Albert, hairdresser Wright John, shopkeeper [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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