Ilkeston Derbyshire Family History Guide

Ilkeston is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Derbyshire. 

Other places in the parish include: Little Hallam. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1558
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

• Kirk Hallam
• Cossall, Nottinghamshire
• West Hallam
• Stanton by Dale
• Cotmanhay
• Trowell, Nottinghamshire

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ILKESTON, a town and a parish in Derbyshire, a sub-district partly also in Notts, and all in the district of Basford. The town stands on a hill, at the terminus of a short branch of the Erewash Valley railway, near the Erewash canal, the Erewash river, and the boundary with Notts, 9 miles NE by E of Derby.

It was anciently called Elchestane; it obtained a grant for a market and a fair in 1251; it was once, in the time of a plague, the place of the Notts assizes; it possesses freedom from toll in Derby and Nottingham, on the strange condition of keeping a gallows; and it has lately risen into note as a watering place, in connexion with the discovery of a mineral spring. The water of this spring is said to differ from that of every other spa in England, and to resemble that of Seltzer in Germany; and it is used as well for bathing as for drinking.

Baths were erected in 1830, and enlarged in 1832; and they stand contiguous to a well appointed hotel. The town has a post-office under Nottingham, a railway station, gas works, water works, a church, five dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a town hall of 1866, and several public schools; and publishes a newspaper. The church comprises nave, aisles, chancel, and chantry-chapel, with lofty pinnacled tower; and contains a stone screen in the decorated style, and an interesting ancient monument.

A weekly market is held on Thursday; fairs are held on 5 March, WhitThursday, the last Thursday of Oct., and the Thursday after Christmas; and the manufacture of hosiery and lace is extensively carried on. Pop. in 1861, 3,330. Houses, 709.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Cotmanhay and Little Hallam. Acres, 2,290. Real property, £16,195; of which £1,500 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 6,122; in 1861, 8,374. Houses, 1,749. The increase of pop. arose chiefly from the extension of mining, and the operations of a building society. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. Coal and iron stone abound; and lime is calcined.

The Erewash canal goes across the parish, and has here, on its banks, manufactories of various kinds of bricks, stoneware, and common earthen ware. The Nutbrook canal also passes on the W; and the Ilkeston Junction r. station is on the E.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £290. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The vicarage of Cotmanhay is a separate benefice. The sub-district contains a1so Heanor and Shipley townships in Derbyshire, and two parishes in Notts. Pop. in 1851, 10,909; in 1861, 13,745. Houses, 2,834.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Ilkeston Marriage Register 1785 to 1791

Transcriptions

Note. — This is Volume VIIIA, which is referred to on page 2 of Volume VII. (Derbyshire Marriage Registers) as being missing at the time the rest of Ilkeston Marriages were copied; but having been found, the contents of it are now given in order to make the Register complete.

It is a small volume, 10in. by 7 1/2in., and contains both Banns and Marriages, being used at reverse ends for each purpose. It contains 129 leaves, 63 of which are used for Marriages and the remainder for Banns, two leaves of the latter being blank. It is the usual printed Marriage Register, with two entry forms on each leaf, being printed on one side only, and is bound in full rough calf, and is in good preservation. The writing is fairly good, though rather untidy, and is that of one Vicar throughout, the Rev. George Allen.

This volume has been copied by Mr. Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, of Derby.

Volume VIIIA.

John Holmes, w., coalminer, & Jenny Adair 28 Nov. 1785

Thomas Draper, malster, & Sarah Brown, lic. 29 Nov. 1785

William Cliff, labourer, of Kirk Hallam, & Abigail Lacey 9 Jan. 1786

Joseph Slater, stocking-weaver, & Catharine Rigley, lic. 17 Jan. 1786

Samuel Henshaw, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Smith 21 Jan. 1786

Edward Soars, coalminer, of Strelly, co. Nottm., & Grace Richards 23 Jan. 1786

Francis Webster, coalminer, & Elisabeth Low 6 Feb. 1786

William Butler, bricklayer, & Bridget Ryley, w., lic. 2 Mar. 1786

Joseph Smalley, coalminer, of Radford, co. Nottm., & Sarah Higget 30 Mar. 1786

Joseph Needham, of Greasley, co. Nottm., & Elizabeth Clifford 4 June 1786

Samuel Richards, coalminer, & Mary Barker 6 June 1786

William Shaw, stocking-weaver, & Catharine Cooper 16 July 1786

John Day, of Eastwell, co. Nottm., miller, & Ann Skevington, w., lic. 18 Aug. 1786

John Nighton, coalminer, & Hannah Lacey 29 Aug. 1786

Thomas Calladine, coalminer, & Elisabeth Wright 2 Oc 1786

Charles Slater, flax-dresser, & Elisabeth Jackson 9 Oct. 1786

John Dodsley Flamsteed, Esq., & Mary Low, lic. 12 Oct. 1786

William Saunders, gardiner, & Ann Raynor, of Heanor 15 Oct. 1786

William Taylor, stocking-weaver, & Rebekah Calladine 26 Nov. 1786

George Daykin, stocking-weaver, & Mary Hackett 27 Nov. 1786

Robert Webster, coalminer, & Fanny Scattergood 28 Nov. 1786

John Purdey, sawyer, & Sarah Watson, lic. 25 Dec. 1786

Walter Richards, coalminer, of Strelley, co. Nottm., & Amey Calladine 25 Dec. 1786

Joseph Nighton, coalminer, & Sarah Eyley 30 Dec. 1786

Robert Holland, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Ball 31 Dec. 1786

John Nighton, coalminer, & Sarah Chadwick, lic. 3 Ap. 1787

John Lacy, stocking-weaver, & Hannah Fisher 29 Ap. 1787

Samuel Fretwell, of Heanor, coalminer, & Esther Leabetter 9 Ap. 1787

William Shipman, stocking-weaver, & Sarah Wootton 29 Ap. 1787

Leander Wooley, coalminer, & Amey Bramley 29 May 1787

Thomas Warren, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Fletcher 10 July 1787

John Scattergood, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Harrison 8 Aug. 1787

Thomas Riley, stocking-weaver, & Mary Hancock 13 Aug. 1787

William Riley, coalminer, & Sarah Knighton 1 Oct. 1787

Joseph Meakin, stocking-weaver, & Anne Critch 3 Oct. 1787

Thomas Brown, stocking-weaver, & Anne Rawdin 15 Oct. 1787

George Dennis, stocking-weaver, & Sarah Warren 15 Oct. 1787

Joseph Limb, labourer, of Heanor, & Elizabeth Lacey, lic. 18 Oct. 1787

John Jackson, labourer, & Mary Stanley, w. 9 Nov. 1787

Mark Beardsley, coalminer, & Amy Shipman 10 Dec. 1787

John Rollesson, coalminer, & Elisabeth Riley 25 Dec. 1787

Francis Kirkby, farmer, & Mary Winrow, lic. 5 Feb. 1788

Thomas Hawlsorth, coalminer, & Elisabeth Banner 24 Feb. 1788

John Elson, labourer, Spondon, Ann Skevington 10 Feb. 1788

James Daykin, stocking-weaver, & Hannah Daykin 23 Mar. 1788

Mark Lacey, cordwainer, & Hannah Skevington 25 Mar. 1788

John Hawley, farmer, Heanor, & Phoeby Potter, lic. 4 Ap. 1788

Thomas Morris, coalminer, & Elisabeth Riley 14 Ap. 1788

James Wright, coalminer, & Anne Smith Barnes 4 May 1788

John Blackner & Sarah Brown 11 May 1788

John Bagshaw, stocking-weaver, & Dorothy Daykin 9 June 1788

George Smith, labourer, & Anne Mason 8 July 1788

Thomas Dexter, stocking-weaver, of Woolaton, co. Nottm., & Mary Dod, lic. 18 July 1788

John Smith, stocking-weaver, & Mary Beardsley, w. 20 July 1788

William Smith, stocking-weaver, & Sarah Wright 21 July 1788

Samuel Slater, labourer, & Mary Derbyshire, of West Hallam 8 Aug. 1788

Thomas Oaten, coalminer, & Hannah Nighton 31 Aug. 1788

Daniel Tatam, stocking-weaver, & Ann Chadwick 1 Sep. 1788

Thomas Dod, coalminer, & Mary Smith 13 Oct. 1788

William Daines, labourer, & Hannah Beardsley 13 Oct. 1788

Joseph Fisher, coalminer, & Martha Calladine 13 Oct. 1788

Thomas Barker, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Whitehead, lic. 14 Oct. 1788

Samuel Hickman, miller, of Eastwood, co. Nottm., & Mary Webster, lic. 4 Dec. 1788

Luke Straw, stocking-weaver, & Betty Carrier 21 Dec. 1788

Thomas Pretwell & Mary Wright 24 Dec. 1788

John Bostock, coalminer, & Ann Hackett 25 Dec. 1788

Bakewell Skevington, framesmith, & Veranna Watson 25 Dec. 1788

John Whaplington, coalminer, & Hannah Cresswell 25 Dec. 1788

William Wright & Millicent Webster 29 Dec. 1788

William Leggit, of Kirk Hallam, & Hannah Webster, lic. 9 Jan. 1789

Samuel Noon, framesmith, & Hannah Lang 25 Jan. 1789

William Pownder, labourer, of Heanor, & Mary Woolley 10 Feb. 1789

Michael Skevington, grocer, & Elisabeth Wyld, lic. 16 Feb. 1789

William Shaw, labourer, & Sarah Collins, w. 23 Feb. 1789

William Henshaw, coalminer, & Hannah Musson 23 Feb. 1789

John Wesson, labourer, & Mary Shaw, w. 9 Mar. 1789

John Bacon, labourer, of Greasley, co. Nottm., & Sarah Saxon 30 Mar. 1789

Ralph Beennitt, coalminer, & Mary Waters 12 Ap. 1789

Christopher Wizar [?], labourer, & Ann Knighton 14 Ap. 1789

George Davis, coalminer, of Heanor, & Sarah Lacey 13 Ap. 1789

Thomas Daykin, stocking-weaver, & Catharine Gregory 23 June 1789

John Saunders, gardener, & Elisabeth Whiler 30 June 1789

John Wadson, tailor, & Hannah Needham 6 July 1789

William Haseldine, labourer, & Hannah Warren 21 July 1789

Will. Bowrrowe, coalminer, & Liddy North 21 July 1789

Berrom Johnson, rag-gatherer, & Sarah Anderson 14 Sep. 1789

John Trueman, coalminer, & Mary Greasley 19 Sep. 1789

Solomon Knighton, coalminer, & Anne Turton 2 Oct. 1789

Robert Griham, stocking-weaver, & Jane Buxton 11 Oct. 1789

Joseph Trueman, coalminer, & Anne Marshall 4 Oct. 1789

William Smith, stocking-weaver, & Anne Farnsworth 23 Nov. 1789

Thomas Griham, stocking-weaver, & Mary Henshaw 30 Nov. 1789

John Taylor, labourer, & Margaret Wooley 30 Nov. 1789

Mark Lacey, cordwainer, & Catharine Higgitt, w. 29 Dec. 1789

John Hudson, labourer, & Grace Shaw 30 Dec. 1789

John Hatton, coalminer, of Nuttall, co. Nottm., & Rachel Bagshaw 14 Feb. 1790

William Taylor, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Shaw 15 Feb. 1790

Samuel Coap, dealer in pots, & Catharine Webster 16 Feb. 1790

John Nighton, coalminer, & Alice Turton 9 Mar. 1790

Anthony Bomford, stocking-weaver, & Sarah Richards 5 Ap. 1790

John Fullard, coalminer, & Anne Beardsley 5 Ap. 1790

Joseph Wilson, labourer, & Alice Kent 6 Ap. 1790

William Laban, rag-gatherer, & Mary Anderson 5 July 1790

Edward Briggs, stocking-weaver, & Martha Wooley 19 July 1790

Thomas Wheatley, of Cossall, co. Nottm., stocking-weaver, & Martha Siverns 27 July 1790

Thomas Shipman, stocking-weaver, & Anne Smoley 30 Aug. 1790

Thomas Sisson, coalminer, & Mary Linley 6 Sep. 1790

Thomas Lane, stocking-weaver, of Attenborough, co. Nottm., & Hannah Shipman 19 Sep. 1790

John Daykin, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Bailey 2 Oct. 1790

John Ginnills, labourer, of West Hallam, & Anne Allin 4 Oct. 1790

Joseph Trueman, labourer, & Milicent Bramley 28 Sep. 1790

Joseph Dickson, traveller, & Mary Lenton 18 Oct. 1790

John Smith, stocking-weaver, & Ellen Banner 18 Oct. 1790

John Fisher, stocking-weaver, & Catharine Green 18 Oct. 1790

Samuel Webster, coalminer, & Sarah Webster 18 Oct. 1790

John West, stocking-weaver, & Elisabeth Rawdin 18 Oct. 1790

Thomas Poxon, traveller, & Mary Chedle, w. 25 Oct. 1790

William Martin & Jane Hancock 14 Nov. 1790

William Smith, rag-gatherer, & Catharine Buntin 30 Jan. 1791

Joseph Rigley, coalminer, & Jane Talton 25 Oct. 1791

Thomas Dod, coalminer, & Mary Whitacar 2 May 1791

William Keeling, labourer, of Greasley, co. Nottm., & Martha Johnson 16 May 1791

John Halmon, labourer, & Sarah Wood 16 May 1791

Charles Chadwick, stocking-weaver, & Mary Richards 23 May 1791

Edward Hollingworth, stocking-weaver, of Trowell, co. Nottm., & Mary Hodgkinson, lic 16 June 1791

Charles Gorse, labourer, & Elizabeth Adams 27 June 1791

Henry Richards, stocking-weaver, & Phoebe Hatton 12 Sep. 1791

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Administration

• County: Derbyshire
• Civil Registration District: Basford
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Lichfield
• Rural Deanery: Ockbrook
• Poor Law Union: Basford
• Hundred: Morleston and Litchurch
• Province: Canterbury