SUTTON cum DUCKMANTON, Derbyshire

Bibliography

Here are a series of wonderful books written by local author Pamela Kettle:-

• Kettle, Pamela - Oldcotes. Merton Priory Press, 2000.
  The story of a stately home which vanished, Bess of Hardwick's last building.
  
  
• A history of the Hardwick Inn. Published by P Kettle, 1991; 96 pages, paperback.
  ISBN 095181320X
  
  
• The history of the Sutton-cum-Duckmanton endowed school, 1693-1936.
  Published by Pamela Kettle, Chesterfield, 1996; 76 pages, paperback.
  ISBN 029518132X
  
  
• Sutton Scardale's story - Pt. 1: The Leekes of Sutton.
  Published by Ilkeston : Moorley's Bible & Bookshop, 116 pages, paperback.
  ISBN 086071313X
  
  
• Parsons of Sutton-cum-Duckmanton : seven centuries of church life.
  Published by Pamela Kettle, Chesterfield, 1995; 116 pages, paperback.
  ISBN 0951813218
  
  

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Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
  
  
• The church was built in the early 14th century.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed structure with British Heritage.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1662.
  
  
• The parish registers of Sutton cum Duckmanton, 1662-1837, edited by Pamela Kettle and Philip Riden, 1992, are available for purchase as one of Derbyshire Record Society Publications
  ISBN 0946324158.
  
  
• The book above exists in a digital form.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SUTTON-CUM-DUCKMANTON, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 4½ miles S.E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 160 from London. In the vicinity are the Duckmanton colliery and iron works. The living is a rectory* with the vicarage of Duckmanton annexed, in the diocese of Lichfield, value £309. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has several stained windows."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Sutton-cum-Duckmanton contains the villages of Arkwright Town, Duckmanton, Long Duckmanton, and Sutton Scarsdale and the hamlet of Sutton Spring Wood.

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

• We have the transcription of the section for Sutton cum Duckmanton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chesterfield petty session hearings.
  

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