Holbrook

Holbrook is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops by the Village on every fourth Wednesday morning.

The Belper Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
   
• The church was built in 1761.
   
• The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1841.
   
• A separate ecclesiastical parish was created for this Chapelry in 1863.
   
• The church seats 420.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Michael's Church, and other buildings, at the Derbyshire Photos website.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.

• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials partially extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• The churh was in the rural deanery of Duffield.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• Remember that this place did not become a Civil Parish until the start of 1867. Prior to that, Civil Registration records would be under Duffield parish.

"HOLBROOK is a township, in the parish of Duffield, about 2 miles S.E. from Belper. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in silk stocking weaving. A pit has lately been sunk in the vicinity, the working of which promises a plentiful supply of coal. The chapel is of simple architecture, with a conical spire; the living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of Wm. Evans, Esq. the lord of the manor. The surrounding country is very picturesque, and fine prospects may be obtained from the adjacent hills. Population, in 1831, 703."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The village is five miles north of Derby city. Coxbench is a hamlet in the parish just south of Holbrook village. Holbrook Moor is a village just north of Holbrook village.

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• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Holbrook entry under Belper from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Holbrook entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Holbrook from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Holbrook to another place.

• A Roman kiln was discovered in Holbrook village.
   
• The village had an outbreak of Typhus in late 1846, killing several children.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK364449 (Lat/Lon: 53.000191, -1.45907), Holbrook 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 Derbyshire and General Infirmary Convalescent Home was here in 1891.  In 1911, the Infirmary had twelve residents. The Infirmary had been established in 1810 and a new facility built here in 1899. Such facilities were not obliged to archive any patient records, but administrative records and some death records are available in the county library and via the National Archives.

The Derbyshire County Library has annual reports from this facility as recently as 1939. These reports may mention staff names, but the web page author has not looked at one.

• The War Memorial cross is just inside the churchyard gate, to the right.
   
• There is a photograph of the War Memorial on the Pictures of England website.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 16 June, 1803: DIED: "On Saturday last, in the prime of life, after a lingering illness, which he bore with great patience and resignation, Mr. Thomas RADFORD, of Holbrook, in this county."

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 22 September, 1803: DIED: "On Saturday last at Holbrooke, in this county, aged 60, sincerely and deservedly lamented by her family and friends, Mrs. RADFORD, relict of the late Mr. RADFORD, of Hill-Top near Horsley- Woodhouse."

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Duffield parish in Derby county and became a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Holbrook Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Belper petty session hearings every other week.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1790.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

In 1837 William EVANS built a school in Holbrook for 200 children.

In 1842 he built a similar school in Holbrook Moor for infants.