OCKBROOK, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow 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 was enlarged and repaired in 1835.
  
  
• The church seats 400.
  
  
• A mission chapel, dedicated to Saint Stephen, was built in Borrowash in 1889-90.
  
  
• During the 18th and 19th century, Ockbrook was a major centre of Moravian worship:

"At the village of Ockbrook, five miles from Derby, the Brethren built another beautiful settlement. For some years, with Ockbrook as a centre, they had a clear field for work in the surrounding district; they had preaching places at Eaton, Belper, Codnor, Matlock, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, Dale, and other towns and villages; and yet not a single one of these places ever developed into a congregation."

(A History of the Moravian Church, J.E. Hutton, 1909)

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1642, but the period between 1662 and 1669 is "irregular".
  
  
• Marriages at Ockbrook, 1631-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1808.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1824 and enlarged in 1842.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built at Borrowash in 1851.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"OCKBROOK is a parish, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch; the village is about two miles E. from Spondon, and about five E. by S. from Derby. This place partakes with Spondon in the manufacture of bobbin-net and lace. At a short distance from the village is an establishment of the Moravians, founded in 1750; the females, who are employed in fine muslin work, occupy a building, called the 'sisters' house', separated from that inhabited by the single men by a commodious chapel and a boarding-school. The parish church, dedicated to All saints, is chiefly in the Norman style of architecture. A place of worship for Wesleyan methodists, and a national school, the latter erected in 1816, are in the village. The parish (which has no dependent township), contained, in 1821, 1,203 inhabitants, and in 1831, 1,634."

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

The parish is near the Derby Canal, 5 miles east of Derby city and 130 miles north of London. It covers over 1,600 acres and includes the village of Borrowash and the hamlet of Shacklecross (alternately spelled Shachlecross).

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• The annual parish feast day was historically the Sunday nearest to November 13th.

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Migration, Internal

• Those checking migrations might also wish to be aware that Ockbrook had "sister" community at Fulneck, Pudsey (YKS). Added 8 Sep 2005.
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).

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