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MACKWORTH, Derbyshire

"MACKWORTH, a parish, with a small village, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, is situate on the road from Derby to Ashbourn, two miles and a half from the former, and ten and a half from the latter town. Here is a neat church, dedicated to All Saints, and in the neighbourhood, are the vestiges of a castle; the south gate of the edifice, which is entire, forms the entrance to a farm-house. The castle was the ancient seat of the De Mackworths, and was probably demolished during the parliamentary war. The parish (including the township of Mark-Eaton), contained, in the last census, 621 inhabitants."

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

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of All Saints Church (CMB 1611-1904) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 12 Aug 2005.

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Mackworth, 1603-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 1).

Directories

• Directory for Derby, with the villages of Darley Abbey, Mackworth and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Mackworth by Ann Andrews. Added 4 Jan 2006.

Gazetteers

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

Schools

• There is an article about Thomas Russel and his School at Mackworth in the Derbyshire Family History Society Journal, Issue 74, September 1995, pp23-6, which includes not only an account of the school, but also a list of the pupils and staff recorded on 1841-71 censuses.

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