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Who lived in these houses back in 1861?
Chatsworth House Haddon Hall
Ilam Hall (near Ashbourne)
Peak District Historic Houses – Household members and staff, 1861 (taken from the UK census which took place on 7 April 1861)
Errwood Hall (Goyt Valley) Stoke Hall (near Grindleford) Eyam Hall
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HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND STAFF LIVING IN CHATSWORTH HOUSE (AND ESTATE) 1861
Name of street/place, number of house
Name Relation to head of household
Condition (married, unmarried, widowed, etc.)
Age Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born Whether blind or deaf and dumb
Male Female
Chatsworth House
William Cavendish (7th Duke)
Head W 52 Duke of Devonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire, Peer of the Realm
St George’s Hanover Square, Middlesex
Spencer C. Cavendish
Son U 27 Marquis of Hartington
St George’s Hanover Square, Middlesex
Louisa C. Cavendish
Daughter U 25 Lady St George’s Hanover Square, Middlesex
John G. Cottingham
Agent M 47 Land Agent and Magistrate
Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire
George H. Band Servant U 48 Valet Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire
Mary Johnson Servant U 39 Housekeeper Harworth, Durham
Chatsworth House Seat of the Duke of Devonshire and home of the Cavendish Family from the mid-16th century. Construction began 1552, rebuilt 1687 - 1707.
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Jane Simmond Servant U 46 Ladies Maid Portmand Square, London, Middlesex
Joseph Malt Servant U 30 Valet Eastbourne, Sussex
James Story Servant M 48 Groom Solihull, Warwickshire
Joseph Clark Servant U 25 Footman Hickleton, Yorkshire
Fredric Frankfoot Servant U 30 Footman Buckland Newton, Dorset
Joseph Collins Servant M 30 Groom Westerham, Kent
Thomas Cooper Servant U 24 Coachman St George’s Hanover Square, Middlesex
William Fearn Servant M 40 Watchman Pilsley, Derbyshire
John Marsden Servant M 45 Watchman Baslow, Derbyshire
Mary Furniss Servant U 26 Housemaid Baslow, Derbyshire
Mary A. Booth Servant U 25 Housemaid Edensor, Derbyshire
Eliza Jones Servant U 22 Housemaid Aberystwyth, Wales
Mary Mather Servant U 34 Housemaid Pilsley, Derbyshire
Mary McDiarmid Servant U 27 Housemaid Paisley, Scotland
Elizabeth E. Wall Servant U 26 Housemaid Darley, Derbyshire
Chatsworth Gardens
Andrew Stewart Head M 59 Gardener Ireland
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Jane Stewart Wife M 59 Ireland
Catherine Stewart Daughter U 31 Ireland
Jane Stewart Daughter U 25 Chatsworth, Derbyshire
William Stewart Son U 23 Gardener Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Barbrook House
Sarah Paxton Head M 58 Lady Matlock, Derbyshire
Rose Paxton Daughter U 20 Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Annie Paxton Daughter U 19 Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Elizabeth Down Servant U 21 Cook Beeley, Derbyshire
Eliza Eyre Servant U 21 Kitchen Maid Pilsley, Derbyshire
Eliza Stone Servant U 24 House Maid Beeley, Derbyshire
George Down Servant U 22 Footman Beeley, Derbyshire
Garden Entrance Lodge
Mary Ollerenshaw Head W 55 Lodge or Gate Keeper
Pilsley, Derbyshire
Chatsworth Stand
Richard George Head M 63 Gardener Kingston, Hampshire
Sarah George Wife M 58 Gardener’s Wife Stockport, Cheshire
Zelinda George Daughter U 24 Baslow, Derbyshire
Zenobia George Daughter U 22 Baslow, Derbyshire
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Chatsworth Stables
Benjamin Halksworth
Head M 41 Carter Beeley, Derbyshire
Jane Halksworth Wife M 41 Carter’s Wife Winster, Derbyshire
Jane Roose Servant U 15 House Servant Winster, Derbyshire
Arthur Barton Head M 65 Plumber Stanley, Derbyshire
Mary Barton Wife M 76 Plumber’s Wife Bakewell, Derbyshire
Mary Barton Granddaughter
11 Scholar Bakewell, Derbyshire
Henry Barton Grandson 3 Bakewell, Derbyshire
Swiss Cottage
John Leggrove Head U 70 Servant Heckfield, Hampshire
William Blagden Nephew M 52 Groom Edensor, Derbyshire
Elizabeth Blagden Niece M 50 Groom’s Wife, Housekeeper
London, Middlesex
Susanna E. Blagden
Niece U 18 Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Ann J. Blagden Niece 11 Scholar Chatsworth, Derbyshire
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Blue Door Lodge
Thomas Roose Head M 63 General Labourer
Birchover, Derbyshire
Sarah Roose Wife M 60 Rowsley, Derbyshire
Emma Randle Granddaughter
13 Beeley, Derbyshire
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INDIVIDUALS LIVING ON HADDON HALL ESTATE 1861
Name of street/place, number of house
Name Relation to head of household
Condition (married, unmarried, widowed, etc.)
Age Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born Whether blind or deaf and dumb
Male Female
Haddon Hall [Uninhabited]
Barn and Dove Cote
John Daugherty Head M 40 Excavator Brighouse, Yorkshire
William Whitaker Lodger U 35 Excavator Ireland
Haddon Hall One of the seats of the Duke of Rutland. Medieval manor house dates from 11th century with later additions between 13th and 17th centuries. Historically, home to the Vernon family (from 13th century) and later Manners family. In 1703, John Manners, was made 1st Duke of Rutland and moved to Belvoir Castle (Leicestershire) and so wardens were employed to look after Haddon Hall in the family’s absence. Moving on from the 1851 census, this 1861 census return still shows the Bath family acting as ‘wardens’ of Haddon Hall (but Mary Ann Bath as head of the house with her husband Travis having died earlier in 1861). It also reveals the railway ‘navvies’ living on and around the Haddon Hall estate (including in the ‘dovecote’ and in various barns and huts) who were responsible for building the Haddon railway tunnel (constructed 1861-1862) to ensure that the Midland Railway line (connecting Manchester and London) passed by the Duke of Rutland’s seat unseen.
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Peter Casey Lodger U 29 Excavator Ireland
John Stanton Lodger M 44 Excavator Ireland
Sarah Stanton Lodger M 38 Ireland
Barn Job Granter Head M 40 Excavator Blading [Bleadon?], Somerset?
Elizabeth Granter Wife M 36 Excavator’s Wife
Bridgewater, Somerset
Alfred Granter Son 10 Aberdale, Wales
John Granter Son 5 Cardiff, Wales
Joseph Granter Son 3 Cardiff, Wales
Hut Charles Bishop Head M 30 Excavator Ireland
Mary Bishop Wife M 32 Wife Ireland
Barn Michael Dillon Head M 40 Railway Labourer
Castlebar, Ireland
Bridget Dillon Wife M 36 Railway Labourer’s Wife
Castlebar, Ireland
Mary Dillon Daughter 10 Scholar Liverpool, Lancashire
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Catherine Dillon Daughter 5 Scholar Prescot, Lancashire
Edward Dillon Son 2 Birkenhead, Cheshire
Owen Quinn Boarder M 55 Railway Labourer
Ireland
Thomas Quinn Boarder U 20 Railway Labourer
Edward Bessy Boarder U 25 Railway Labourer
Ireland
David Matthews Boarder M 40 Railway Labourer
Ireland
Ellen Matthews Boarder M 35 Railway Labourer’s Wife
Ireland
Ellen Matthews Boarder 7 Railway Labourer’s Daughter
Bilston, Staffordshire
Joseph McNeil Boarder M 39 Labourer Liverpool, Lancashire
Samuel Johnstone Boarder M 23 Labourer Ireland
Patrick Morris Boarder U 33 Labourer Ireland
Patrick Coyne Boarder M 42 Labourer Ireland
Nether Haddon
Samuel Slater Head M 37 Farm Bailiff Bakewell, Derbyshire
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Mary Slater Wife M 39 Farm Bailiff’s Wife
Bakewell, Derbyshire
James Slater Son 11 Work on Farm Bakewell, Derbyshire
Sarah Marshall Servant U 18 Bakewell, Derbyshire
Henry Eaton Servant U 13 Bakewell, Derbyshire
James Duckworth Lodger U 30 Prescot, Lancashire
Nether Haddon
George Roebuck Head M 40 Farm Shepherd
Lancashire
Elizabeth Roebuck Wife M 33 Farm Shepherd’s Wife
Haddon, Derbyshire
Mary Roebuck Daughter 9 Haddon, Derbyshire
Henry Roebuck Son 14 mo.
Haddon, Derbyshire
George Brotherton Lodger U 65 Farm Labourer Ireland
Job Gatrick Lodger U 34 Farm Labourer Ireland
Nether Haddon Barn
Benjamin Perkins Head M 50 Miner at Railway Tunnel
England
Elizabeth Perkins Wife M 28 England
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Sarah Perkins Daughter U 6 England
William Perkins Son U 25 Miner England
James Packer Lodger U 45 Miner England
Thomas Jones Lodger U 25 Miner England
Nether Haddon Hut
Frederick Bower Head M 42 Railway Excavator
Holbeach, Linconshire
Mary Bower Wife M 44 Holbeach, Lincolnshire
Frederick Bower Son 6 Durham
Jane Bower Daughter 9 Twyford, Nottinghamshire
James White Lodger U 22 Railway Labourer
Littleton, Worcestershire
John Richardson Lodger U 40 Railway Miner Bradford, Yorkshire
Mark Bale Lodger U 21 Railway Labourer
Longnor, Staffordshire
Charles Smith Lodger U 20 Railway Labourer
Gloucester
Thomas Williams Lodger U 30 Railway Miner Derbyshire
Thomas Dening Lodger U 22 Railway Labourer
Stoke Lane, Somerset
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Nether Haddon
Mary Ann Bath Head W 54 Warden at Haddon Hall
Nether Haddon, Derbyshire
Jane Nelson Niece U 26 Nether Haddon, Derbyshire
John Nelson Nephew U 32 Nether Haddon, Derbyshire
William Reynolds Servant U 35 Servant Ireland
Eliza Prince Charwoman U 23 Charwoman Bakewell, Derbyshire
Nether Haddon Hut
Richard Barton Head M 53 Railway Labourer
Croft Warrington, Lancashire
Alice Barton Wife M 41 Scarisbrick, Lancashire
Nether Haddon Hut
William Heaselton[?]
Head M 48 Railway Excavator
Gaden [Gayden], Warwickshire
Sarah Heaselton[?] Wife M 40 Hartington
James O’Neil Lodger U 28 Railway Excavator
Ireland
John Nun Lodger U 24 Railway Excavator
Ireland
Nether Haddon
George Haslam Head M 44 Mason Brampton, Derbyshire
Ann Haslam Wife M 44 Wife Chesterfield, Derbyshire
George Haslam Son U 19 Mason Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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Walter Haslam Son 10 Scholar Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Emma Haslam Daughter U 13 Scholar Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Albert Haslam Son 3 Halifax, Yorkshire
Nether Haddon Barn
William Iredale Head M 42 Railway Foreman
Yorkshire
Ann Iredale Wife M 40 Railway Foreman’s Wife
Yorkshire
Anthony Iredale Son U 13 Railway Foreman’s Son
Lancashire
Nether Haddon Hut
John Lewis Head M 41 Brick Maker Manchester
Elizabeth Lewis Wife M 30 Liverpool
William Lewis Son 11 Walton, Lancashire
George Lewis Son 5 Liverpool
Margaret Lewis Daughter 4 Liverpool
Job Lewis Son 3 Liverpool
Sarah Ann Lewis Daughter 1 Liverpool
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John Price Boarder U 40 Brick Maker Birtle, Lancashire
Thomas Seddon Boarder U 21 Brick Maker Liverpool
Joseph Mercy Boarder M 21 Brick Maker Liverpool
Richard Oliver Boarder U 15 Brick Maker Liverpool
Nether Haddon Hut
Richard Shaklady Head M 39 Brick Yard Labourer
Liverpool
Mary Ann Shaklady Wife M 39 Walton, Lancashire
William Shaklady Son U 16 Liverpool
Martha Shaklady Daughter U 15 Liverpool
Benjamin Shaklady Son U 10 Liverpool
Richard Shaklady Son 9 Scholar Liverpool
Elizabeth Shaklady Daughter 4 Prescot, Lancashire
Richard Salter Boarder U 17 Brick Yard Labourer
Devonshire
Thomas Barrall Boarder U 15 Brick Yard Labourer
Stalybridge, Lancashire
Charles Baker Boarder U 16 Brick Yard Labourer
Hereford
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Nether Haddon Hut
Thomas Widdows Head M 27 Brick Maker Ireland
Mary Ann Widdows Wife M 28 Ireland
Caroline Widdows Daughter 3 Liverpool
William Thomas Widdows
Son 1 Liverpool
Thomas Hunt Boarder M 27 Brick Maker Daventry, Northamptonshire
Louisa Hunt Boarder M 25 Byfield, Northamptonshire
John R. S. Hunt Boarder 1 Leicester
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HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND STAFF LIVING IN ILAM HALL 1861
Name of street/place, number of house
Name Relation to head of household
Condition (married, unmarried, widowed, etc.)
Age Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born Whether blind or deaf and dumb
Male Female
Ilam Hall Jessie Watts Russell
Head W 74 Landed Proprietor
Walthamstow, Essex
Edward Watts Russell
Son U 16 Scholar Ilam, Staffordshire
Susan Jane Archer Burton
Visitor U 37 Lady London
Mary Ann L. Archer Burton
Visitor U 30 Lady London
Emma Archer Burton
Visitor U 26 Lady London
Katharine A. Burton Visitor U 14 Scholar London
Ilam Hall Home of the Port family from 16th century for over 250 years. Sold to David Pike Watts in 1809. Inherited by his daughter who married Jesse Russell. Russell became Jesse Watts-Russell, High Sheriff of Staffordshire and MP and commissioned new hall to be built between 1821 and 1826. By early 1934, the hall was largely demolished when Sir Robert McDougal bought it and donated it to the National Trust. Now leased to the Youth Hostel Association (YHA).
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Georgiana A. Burton
Visitor U 12 Scholar London
James Gubbins Visitor U 28 Major 23rd Royal Fusiliers
Belmont, Hampshire
Mary Jane Spong Visitor U 20 Lady’s Maid to Visitors
Winkfield, Berkshire
John King Servant W 35 Butler Kirby, Yorkshire
Charles Mason Servant U 24 Footman East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
William Freeman Servant U 22 Footman Dennington, Northamptonshire
Henry Woolvon Servant M 40 Coachman Findon, Sussex
Fanny Woolvon Servant’s Wife
M 44 Coachman’s Wife
Arundel, Sussex
John Wyles Servant U 24 Groom Boston, Lincolnshire
Susan Maud Green Servant U 57 Housekeeper Oswestry, Salop
Ann Thomas Servant U 32 Cook Shrewsbury, Salop
Ann Seargrave Servant U 28 Laundry Maid Barton-under-Needwood
Ann Elizabeth Horsley
Servant U 29 Housemaid Hutton, Yorkshire
Mary Ann Berridge Servant U 25 Housemaid Beaconsfield, Northamptonshire
Harriet Miller Servant U 20 Housemaid Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
Ann Barnes Servant U 22 Stillroom Maid Leigh, Staffordshire
Ann Maria Gilbert Servant U 25 Kitchen Maid Truro, Cornwall
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Sarah Harlow Servant U 49 Dairy Maid Staffordshire
Ilam Hall Gardens
Thomas Stevens Servant U 22 Garden Apprentice
Ockbrook, Derbyshire
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HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND STAFF LIVING IN ERRWOOD HALL 1861
Name of street/place, number of house
Name Relation to head of household
Condition (married, unmarried, widowed, etc.)
Age Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born Whether blind or deaf and dumb Male Female
Errwood Hall Samuel Grimshawe Head M 52 Magistrate for the County of Derby and Chester
Manchester
Jessie Hunter Grimshawe
Wife M 33 Wife Edinborough [?], Scotland
Mary A. S. Grimshawe
Daughter 9 Errwood Hall, Taxal, Cheshire
Errwood Hall Built in the upper Goyt Valley c.1840-1841 for Samuel Grimshawe (1768-1861), a wealthy Manchester businessman and mill-owner. Grimshawe’s granddaughter Mrs Mary Gosselin was the last family member to live at the hall until her death in 1930. The hall briefly became a youth hostel until the land was purchased by Stockport Corporation who demolished the building in the construction of Fernilee Reservoir in 1934. Today, only ruins of the hall remain as well as the Grimshawes’ private family cemetery nearby and a Catholic shrine erected in memory of the family’s Spanish governess Miss Dolores de Ybarguen.
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Anne G. M. Grimshawe
Daughter 8 Paris, France
John Michael Quena
Chaplain 30 Catholic Priest Downpatrick, Ireland
Josephine Catherine Poppe
Governess U 34 Governess Munich, Bavaria
William Howard Bower
Visitor M 46 Artist Surrey
Catharine Ann Bower
Visitor M 45 Aberdeen, Scotland
Alice Barrow Cook and House Keeper
U 36 General Servant
Cuerden, Preston, Lancashire
Mary Johnson Lady’s Maid U 30 General Servant
London
Sarah Bailey Young Lady’s Maid
U 18 General Servant
Buxton, Derbyshire
Margaret Walsh Lady’s Maid U 49 General Servant
Mountmellick, Queen’s County, Ireland
Elizabeth Huntsworth
Kitchen Maid U 25 General Servant
Manchester
Agnes May Daly House Maid U 18 General Servant
Cork, Ireland
Catherine Rigby House Maid U 18 General Servant
Broughton, Lancashire
Jean Baptiste Romand Puisey[?]
Servant U 30 Butler Savoy [France]
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Henry Wills Servant U 24 Groom and Gardener
Garstang, Lancashire
Patrick Scamlon Servant U 18 Footman Ballirocmore [?], County Sligo, Ireland
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HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND STAFF LIVING IN STOKE HALL 1861
Name of street/place, number of house
Name Relation to head of household
Condition (married, unmarried, widowed,
Age Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born Whether blind or deaf and dumb
Male Female
Stoke Hall Ezra Trickitt Head W 67 Farmer of 200 acres [employing’] 3 men
Bradfield, Yorkshire
Thomas Trickitt Son U 41 Farmer Bradfield, Yorkshire
John Trickitt Son U 31 Farmer Bradfield, Yorkshire
George Stevens Servant U 20 Farm Servant Barlow, Derbyshire
William Neill Servant U 16 Farm Servant Froggatt,
Stoke Hall Commissioned by Rev. John Simpson who acquired the Stoke estate (near Grindleford) on his marriage to the granddaughter of Admiral Benbow and built c. 1757 by William Booth, designed by James Paine. Sold c. 1859 by Simpson’s descendent Henry Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford, to the Hunter family of Greystones who lived there up until the late 1930s. Later occupied by the industrialist Emile Viner until 1951 and then bought by Hedley and Ida Abson as a family home. Sold in 1972 and briefly used as a hotel and restaurant before reverting to a private family home. The 1861 census shows the hall being rented out to farming families, etc.
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Derbyshire
Mary Commas Servant U 22 Maid Servant Staveley, Derbyshire
Ann Howarth Servant U 16 Dairy Maid Cartledge, Derbyshire
Stoke Hall Thomas Outram Head M 45 Woodman Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Mary Outram Wife M 43 Eyam, Derbyshire
Elizabeth Outram Daughter U 19 Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Joe Outram Son U 13 Scholar Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Tom Outram Son 10 Scholar Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Harriet Outram Daughter 8 Scholar Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Mary Outram Daughter 5 Scholar Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Jane Outram Daughter 1 Goatcliff, Derbyshire
Caroline E. Watson Head W 66 Annuity from Insurance in Custom [?]
Eyam, Derbyshire
Mary Ann H. Watson
Daughter U 42 Watton, Lancaster
Catherine Younge [Watson]
Daughter U 32 Watton, Lancaster
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HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND STAFF LIVING IN EYAM HALL 1861
Name of street/place, number of house
Name Relation to head of household
Condition (married, unmarried, widowed,
Age Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born Whether blind or deaf and dumb
Male Female
Eyam Hall Peter Wright Head U 80 Farmer and Landed Proprietor
London, Middlesex
Mary Lowe Servant U 50 General Servant
Wingerworth, Derbyshire
Ann Gregory Servant U 22 General Servant
Tideswell, Derbyshire
Elizabeth Unwin Servant 12 General Servant
Eyam, Derbyshire
Eyam Hall Built in 1671 (just 6 years after the village of Eyam was ravaged by the plague). Home of local landowners the Wright family for 11 generations, now leased to the National Trust.