Doveridge Derbyshire Family History Guide
Doveridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire.
Other places in the parish include: Eaton and Sedsall, Eaton, Leaton and Sedsall, Sadsail, Sedsall, and West Broughton.
Alternative names: Dubridge, Dubbridge, and Dovebruge
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1574
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Marchington, Staffordshire
- Somersal Herbert
- Rocester, Staffordshire
- Marston Montgomery
- Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
- Sudbury
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DOVERIDGE, a village and a parish in the district of Uttoxeter and county of Derby.
The village stands on the river Dove, at the boundary with Stafford, adjacent to the North Stafford railway, 1½ mile E by N of Uttoxeter; has a post office under Derby; and was once a market-town.
The parish includes also the hamlets of West Broughton, Eaton, and Sedsail. Acres, 4,278. Real property, £8,999. Pop., 737. Houses, 150. The property is divided among a few. Doveridge Hall is the seat of Lord Waterpark.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £562. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church stands on an eminence, and has a tower and spire.
There are Wesleyan and P. Methodist chapels, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Magna Britannia 1817
DOVERIDGE, more properly Dovebridge, lies on the river Dove on the borders of Staffordshire, about two miles from Uttoxeter in that county, and seventeen from Derby. This parish, which is in the hundred of Appletree and in the deanery of Castillar, is called in ancient records Dubridge, or Dubbridge, and Dovebruge; it comprises the hamlets of Eaton-Dovedale, and West-Broughton.
A market on Thursdays at Dovebruge, was granted, in 1275, to the prior of Tutbury. (n1) It has been long ago discontinued.
The manor of Doveridge, which had belonged to Edwin Earl of Mercia, was held by the prior of Tutbury under Henry de Ferrars, at the time of the Domesday Survey. It appears that Bertha, wife of Henry de Ferrars, gave it to the priory. (n2) The monks, not long afterwards, became possessed of an estate in this parish, called Holt-park, to which Sir William de Eyton and Henry Deneston quitted claim. (n3) In 1552, the manor of Doveridge and Doveridge-holt, were granted to Sir William Cavendish, then Treasurer of the Chamber. (n4) Henry Cavendish, Esq., his eldest son, settled this estate, in 1611, on Henry, his natural son. This Henry was the immediate ancestor of Henry Cavendish, Esq., who held successively some important offices in the revenue department in Ireland, and was created a Baronet in 1755. In 1792, Sarah, the Lady of his son, Sir Henry Cavendish, was created Baroness of Waterpark, of the kingdom of Ireland, which title, with the baronetcy and the Doveridge estate, were inherited by her eldest son, Richard, now Baron Waterpark. Doveridge-hall, the seat of Lord Waterpark, built about the year 1770, is pleasantly situated on a rising ground, commanding an extensive view towards Staffordshire, with the town of Uttoxeter.
In the parish church are the monuments of Sir Thomas Milward (n5), Chief Justice of Chester, who died in 1658; William Davenport (n6), Esq., of Henbury, Cheshire, 1640; and several of the family of Cavendish. (n7)
The church of Doveridge was appropriated to the priory of Tutbury. The Duke of Devonshire is the present impropriator and patron of the vicarage.
There was a chantry in this church, founded, in 1392, by Sir Robert Kniveton, Vicar, in honour of the Virgin Mary, and for the sustenance of poor people; the revenues were valued, in 1547, at 61. per annum. (n8)
The manor of Eaton-Dovedale belonged, in the reign of Edward I., to the family of St. Pierre, whose heiress, about the year 1356, brought it to Sir Walter Cokesey. Sir Hugh Cokesey, grandson of Sir Walter, died seised of it in 1445: one of his sisters and coheirs married John Greville, whose grandson, Sir Thomas Greville, alias Cokesey, died without issue in or about the year 1499. This estate, in consequence, devolved to the Russels, descended from the other sister and coheir of Sir Hugh Cokesey. (n9) Sir John Russel died seised of it in 1556: a few years afterwards, it appears to have passed by sale to the Milwards. Robert Milward, Esq., died seised of it in 1566. The heiress of Milward brought it to the Clarkes of Somersall, and it is now the property of their representative the Marchioness of Ormond.
The old mansion, in which Sir Thomas Milward is said to have entertained King Charles I. (n10), was taken down some years ago.
The manor of West-Broughton, which, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, belonged to the family of Palmer, is now the property of Lord Vernon. Farme-place, in West-Broughton, was granted in 1544, to William Parr, Earl of Essex, afterwards, Marquis of Northampton. We cannot learn who is the present proprietor of this estate, or, indeed, that any estate is now called by the name.
Footnotes:
n1. Chart. Rot. 4 Edw. I. 22.
n2. Dugdale’s Monasticon, i. 354.
n3. Dugdale’s Monasticon, ii. 876. and Register of Tutbury Priory.
n4. Pat. Rot. 6 Ed. VI.
n5. He married the heiress of Beresford of Alsop.
n6. He married a daughter of Sir Thomas Milward.
n7. Francis Cavendish, Esq., ob. 1650; married 1. Dorothy daughter of John Bullock, Esq., of Darley; 2. Dorothy daughter of Thomas Broughton, Esq., of Broughton; Henry Cavendish, Esq., 1698, married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Tyrrell of Shotover; John Cavendish, Esq., 1725; Arabella Cavendish, 1739.
n8. Chantry-roll, Augmentation Office.
n9. See Dugdale’s Warwickshire, p. 49. Robert Russel and Robert Winter both descended from Cecilia, sister of Sir Hugh Cokesey, were coheirs of Sir Thomas Cokesey. 15 Hen. VII.
n10. Pilkington.
Source: Magna Britannia; being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, Vol. V containing Derbyshire by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons. Published by T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1817.
Parish Registers
England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Bate, Robert, of West Broughton, co. Derby, gent., bachelor, about 22, and Mrs. Mary Wakelin, of Crackmarsh, co. Stafford, spinster, about 23, her parents dead — at St. Gregory, London, or Redriffe (Rotherhithe), co. Surrey. 22 April, 1665. V.
Bell, William, gent., of Dubbridge, co. Derby, widower, 28, and Dorothy Bentley, of Hogsden, Middlesex, spinster, 21, her parents dead, she being a maidservant — at St. Bride. 16 April, 1636. B.
Cavendish, Henry, esq., of Dovebridge, co. Derby, bachelor, above 23, and Anne Pyne, of St. Anne, Westminster, spinster 23 — at Royal Chapel, of Whitechapel. 8 June 1730. B.
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Derbyshire
- Civil Registration District: Uttoxeter
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Cubley
- Poor Law Union: Uttoxeter
- Hundred: Appletree
- Province: Canterbury