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ILKESTON, Derbyshire

"ILKESTON is small, improving market-town, and watering place, of modern date, in the parish of its name and hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, about nine miles and a half N. E. from Derby, eight W. by N. from Nottingham, nearly 15 S. by W. from Mansfield, and ten S.E. from Belper. It stands on an elevated site near the river Erewash, commanding beautiful prospects in every direction, and its situation is considered remarkably healthy. Both the Erewash and the Nutbrook canals pass through the parish, affording a communication with the rivers Trent and Mersey. This place was anciently called Elchestane, and obtained a grant for a market and fair so early as 1251." [There is further information for Ilkeston]

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

Cemeteries

• Roll of Honour - Derbyshire - War Memorial Selection lists the names on the Ilkeston War Memorial. Added 5 Jan 2006.

Church Records

• Transcriptions by Stephen Flinders of St Mary's Church Parish Registers (in 4 volumes) are available for purchase via Ilkeston & District Local History Society. Added 27 May 2006.

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Ilkeston, 1588-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 7).

Description and Travel

• Ilkeston Cam - pictorial record of the area around the Derbyshire/Notts border, focussing on Ilkeston and the Erewash Valley.

Directories

• A Description of Ilkeston has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.

• A Description of Ilkeston and Directory for Ilkeston and Heanor, with the villages of Breason, Draycott, Risley, Shipley, Sandiacre, West Hallam and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

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

Names, Personal

• The following is an extract from Trueman E and Marston, R W, History of Ilkeston, Pioneer Printing Company Limited (1899), p.203.

  "The only people with money to spare at Ilkeston at the beginning of the eighteenth century were the Gregges and Flamsteads, and perhaps the Cockers. The Gregges were London people, descended from the Gregges, of Bradley, Cheshire. Cheshire may, indeed, have been the ancestral county of many Ilkeston families. The Savages and Breretons were, of course, from that county; and Baguley, Bennet, Birch, Brentnall, Carinton, Carter, Eaton, Gregory, and Skeffington were all names common to Ilkeston and Cheshire. What was more natural than that when John de la Zouche lost his manor because he fought against Henry VII., some of his tenants should likewise lose either their lives or their farms, or both, for the same reason, and be replaced by some of Sir John Savage's soldiers? John Gregge came to Ilkeston shortly after Sir John Manners bought the manor. He was there by 1619, for in that year "Elizabeth Gregge, daughter of John Gregge, gentleman, and Dorothy, his wife, "heiress of Overton", was initiated into 'Baptism the 27th of June:, and on the following day was buried in the sanctuary" (chancel)."

  This extract contributed by Ann Andrews, 21st Jun 2001 - many thanks, Ann!

Societies

• The Ilkeston and District Local History Society - their 'Brief Histories' section includes information about Dale Abbey, Mining, Stanton Ironworks, Churches & Chapels, &c. Added 27 May 2006.

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