MACKWORTH, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church chancel dates from about 1310. The tower and spire date from about 1360.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly rerstored in 1851.
  
  
• The church seats 300.
  
  
• The church appears to be minimally used at present.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1611 and is in good condition.
  
  
• Marriages at Mackworth, 1603-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials (partially) extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"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]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Mackworth entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

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

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History

• See Woolley's 1712 History of the parish.
  
  
• There is a booklet written by Rosemary Lucas, "The Manor of Markeaton, Mackworth and Allestree, 1650 - 1851", 84 pages, published by the author, available in local libraries. It is on local, not family history.
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish included the ancient townships of Macworth and Markeaton.
  
  
• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1763.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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Schools

• A school was built here in 1826 in Markeaton to serve both townships. The school was just for girls, but by 1857 served both sexes.
  
  
• A school was built in Macworth in 1835 to serve both townships.
  
  
• 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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