Eaton

The Library at East Retford will prove useful in your research.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the churchyard cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016

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

• No church is mentioned at Eaton in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• A Norman church stood here, apparently built during the 12th century.
   
• We know that a church stood here in 1291.
   
• A religious census was conducted in 1676 and reported that there were two "dissenters" in the village. Probably Roman Catholics.
   
• The Norman church was pulled down and the stone used to build a new church in 1857-8.
   
• The new Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints in August, 1858.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1860.
   
• The ecclesiastical parish of Eaton was joined with that of Gamston in 1884 (because each was too small to support a vicar on its own).
   
• The church was restored in 1949 and the church rededicated.
   
• A sever storm in 1998 damaged the church, but funds were available to make repairs.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the Campanile turret added to the church roof on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1682.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1757-1843.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Worksop.
   

• The parish was in the East Retford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

Eaton is a small village and a parish of about 1,526 acres. It lies 2 miles south of East Retford, 18 miles north of Newark-on-Trent and 140 miles north of London. It stands just east of the River Idle.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the arterial road south out of Retford for two miles.
   
• Roger GEACH has a photograph of Eaton village on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

From WHITE's 1853 History, Directory and Gazetteer of Nottingham:

EATON, or IDLETON, is a small village and parish, on both sides of the Idle, connected by a brick bridge, 2 miles S. of Retford. It was formerly a place of some consequence, for before the Norman Conquest, we find " here were ten manors and ten thanes, each thane having a hall;” at the survey, however, they were reduced to one manor, and given to Roger de Busli. Henry Bridgeman Simpson, Esq., is lord of the manor, and owner of the parish, which was purchased about 1785, of Earl Fitzwilliam. It comprises 158 inhabitants, and about 1407 acres of land, part of which was not enclosed till 1810.
The church is a small fabric, with turret and be& and the living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s books as £:4, 13s. 4d., now at £63. The Rev. John Twells, is the incumbent, and the Prebendary of Eaton, in Southwell Collegiate Church, is the patron and appropriator.
A small school was built about 18 years ago, Mrs. Simpson pays for 8 children, and the rest pay one penny weekly till they are 5 years old, and threepence per week after.
Eaton Hall is a pleasant mansion, which was thoroughly repaired and greatly enlarged in 1831, and is now the seat of William Frederick Baring, Esq.

• Baring, Wm. Fdk. Esq., Eaton Hall
• Harrison, George, butcher
• Hindley, Richard, butcher
• Jackson, Richard, blacksmith

• Swallow, Mary, schoolmistress
   
•    Farmers
• Cooper, Joseph

• Curtis, Samuel
• Jackson, Thomas
• Knight, John

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Eaton to another place.

• Eaton Hall was repaired and greatly enlarged in 1831.
   
• Eaton Hall was the residence of the BRIDGEMAN-SIMPSON family in recent centuries.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK714780 (Lat/Lon: 53.294159, -0.930261), Eaton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

B. HILTON has a photograph of the World War II Firing Range , which is closer to Eaton than it is to Gamston, on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005. It was used by men from surrounding towns.

There is no War Memorial in the church.

• This place was an ancient parish of Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• The local Parish Council is a joint venture of Gamston, West Drayton and Eaton Parishes. You may contact that parish council regarding civic or political matters, but do NOT ask them to do family history searches for you.
   
• District governance is provided the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• The Common Land was not enclosed here until 1810.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	219
1821	215
1841	189
1851	158
1861	184
1871	131
1881	127
1891	138
1901	144
1911	157
1921	161
1931	152

• A Parochial School was built here around 1835.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Old School on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014. This has been converted to a residence.