Desborough Study: Transcriptions
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 1890
DESBOROUGH
DESBOROUGH is a parish and village, situated on the road from
Kettering to Market Harborough, with a station on the Midland
main line of railway, 6 miles north-west from Kettering, 18
north from Northampton and 81
from London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Rothwell,
petty sessional division, union and county court district of
Kettering, rural deanery of Rothwell (second portion), archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Giles is
cruciform building of stone, in the Early English style,
consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts,
north porch and a western tower with pinnacles and octagonal
spire, containing 5 bells and a new clock, placed in 1889 at a
cost of £120, raised by public subscription : there are several
ancient monuments to the Poulton family, members of which, for fourteen generations, held the lordship of the manor :
the church is gradually being restored as funds will admit,
portions have been re-roofed, the gallery has been removed, a
lectern, prayer desk and pulpit added, and the church re-floored
and re-seated at a cost of about £400 : there is a stained
window on the south side. The register dates from the year 1571,
but there is a vacancy in the register of baptisms and burials
from 1679 to 1686, and of marriages from 1681 to 1695. The
living is a vicarage, net yearly value, from glebe, £97, and
held since 1887 by the
Rev. Edgar Campbell Channer M.A. of St
John's College, Cambridge. There are Wesleyan Methodist, Baptist
and Congregational chapels. To the Wesleyan chapel is attached
Cave's charity of £5. The charities include one of £238, left in
1834 by the late Mrs. Mary Biggs, of Desborough, the interest to
be given in prizes and rewards to the children of the Sunday
school. Buckly's,
Sewell's and East's
charities, of £2 6s. annual value, are distributed. The
town land produces £25 yearly, part of which is spent in
repairing the church and part is distributed amongst the poor of
the parish; the church land produces £11 10s. yearly for church
purposes. The manufacture of boots, shoes, stays,
clothing, and the raising of iron ore gives employment to a
great many hands. The principal landowners are William
Capel Clarke-Thornhill esq. J.P., D.L.
of Rushton Hall, who is lord of the manor, Oscar William Holden-Hambrough
esq. J.P., D.L. of Pipewell Hall,
and Mrs. Wise of Walton Hall, near Burton-on-Trent. The
soil is clay and sand and contains iron-stone; subsoil, various.
The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and oats. The
parish extends over 2,307 acres; rateable value, £10,561; and
the population in 1881 was 2,060.
Sexton, Matthew Coe.
POST, M.O.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-- Thomas
Marlow, postmaster. Letters through Market Harborough are delivered at
7.45 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; dispatched at 8.55 a.m. and 5.55 & 7.55 p.m. week days only; there is no delivery or dispatch of letters
here on sunday. The telegraph office is at the railway
station
WALL LETTER BOX, near station, cleared 8.55 a.m. & 5.55 p.m.
A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1878; C. Burgoine,
Market Harbro', clerk to the board; James Marlow, Desborough,
attendance & inquiry officer.
Board School (mixed & infants), built, with master's residence, in 1878,
at a cost of about £3,500, for 133 boys, 133 girls & 147 infants; average
attendance, 125 boys, 110 girls & 134 infants;
Henry Wallis, master; Miss J.
Ward, mistress; Miss Wilkie, infants' mistress.
National School (mixed), built in 1885, at a cost of about £600, for 90
children, with a full average attendance; Miss
Lizzie Smith, mistress
Police Station, Owen Chapman, constable
Railway Station,
Thomas Gadsby, station master.
Booth Mrs., Desborough house
Channer Rev. Edgar Campbell M.A.
[vicar], The Vicarage
Gibbons Henry M.B.
Marlow Henry
Marriott Rev. Wm. [Congregational]
Morland Col. John, Manor house
Riley Benjamin
Wilson Rev. Augustus Charles Hodgson
Wyatt Thomas William
| COMMERCIAL |
| Aprice John |
general carter & coal dealr |
| Ashby Robert |
Talbot P.H. |
| Asher Ann (Mrs.) | draper |
| Ball John | blacksmith |
| Batling Alfred Thos. | watch & clock ma |
| Bennett Charles | shopkeeper |
| Bird John George | grocer & draper, & agent for W. & A.
Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants |
| Bird Samuel | ironmonger |
| Blunsum Henry | baker |
| Bosworth Jas. | beer retailer & shopkpr |
| Bosworth John | New inn |
| Buckby Elizabeth Jane (Mrs) | grocer |
| Chater Joseph Woolston | farmer |
| Cheaney Caroline (Mrs.) | shopkeeper |
| Cheaney Jsph. | wholesl. boot & shoe manf |
| Clarke Thomas | farmer |
| Coe Henry | beer retailer |
| Coe John | shopkeeper & beer retailer |
|
Cooper Charles | George P.H. |
| Crick & Co. | wholesl. boot & shoe manfrs |
| Crick Joseph | King's Arms
P.H. |
| Crick Thomas | butcher |
| Crick William | grocer
& rate collector |
| Curtis Thomas | farmer, The Grange |
| Dawkins Joseph,
sen | builder |
| Dawkins Joseph | beer retailer & shopkpr |
| Desboro' Building Society (Thomas Gadsly, sec) |
|
Desboro' Gas Co. Limited (Dixon Palmer, manager) |
| Desboro' Industrial & Provident Co-operative Soc.
Lim. (Jesse Marlow, sec) |
| Dillon Charles | shopkeeper |
| Dines Joseph Allan | Angel P.H. & butchr |
| Eales Eliza (Mrs.) | grocer |
| Eaton George | wholesale boot & shoe manufr. Ashby's
yard; & at Rothwell |
| Exton & Bridgwater | wholesale boot & shoe manufacturers |
| Feakin Charles | shopkeeper |
| Foster John | tailor |
| Freer Miller | general dealer |
| Gibbons Henry M.B., C.M. |
surgeon |
| Ginns John | baker & shopkeeper |
| Ginns John | grocer |
| Ginns Mark | shopkeeper |
| Goodman George | hair dresser |
| Groocock George | boot & shoe maker |
| Hief Julius Rudolf | watch & clock ma |
| Humfrey Richard | maltster, grazier & corn merchant |
| Jones Daniel | carpenter
& wheelwright |
| Kilborn Herbert | butcher |
| Kendall Rowland Underwood | hair dresser & tobacconist |
| Kilborn Charlotte (Mrs.) | milliner & dress maker |
|
Kilborn Thomas Rt | plumber & glazier |
| Leago John | market gardener |
| Liner Chas | farmer
& brick & tile manuf |
| Linton Alfred | carpenter & builder |
| Linton Elizabeth (Miss) | dress maker |
| Manger Joseph | fishmonger |
| Marlow George | shopkeeper |
| Marlow Robert | grindery dlr & shopkpr |
| More James M.D. | surgeon, surgery; & at Rothwell |
| Morris Alfred | grocer |
| Nichols, Evans & Clow | wholesale boot & shoe
manufacturers |
| Page Clarke | boot & shoe maker |
| Page Grain | general dealer |
| Page Hiram | shopkpr. & chimney swpr |
| Page Owen | boot & shoe maker |
| Riley Benjamin |
wholesale boot & shoe mnfr |
| Shaw Wm | wholesale boot & shoe manfr |
| Sherratt William A | Desborough lodge |
| Slow Sarah (Mrs.) | haberdasher |
| Stamford, Spalding & Boston Banking Company Limited
(sub-branch of Market Harborough); open wed. & sat. from 9.30 a.m.
to 12.30 p.m. (William Atkinson, manager); draw on Barclay, Bevan &
Co. London E C |
| Sumner George | farmer & horse dealer |
| Symington R. & W. H. & Co. stay manufrs. (Thos. W.
Wyatt, manager) |
| Tailby William, jun. | butcher & farmer |
| Tailby Wm. W. | Swan P.H. &
butcher |
| Toone Benjamin & Co. | wholesale boot & shoe
manufacturers |
| Turner William & Edward | wholesale boot & shoe maker |
|
Turner Saml |
florist & market gardener |
| West & Church | coal, coke & lime mers |
| West Thomas | shopkeeper |
| Wood John | general carter |
| Yeomans George | coal dealer |
| Yeomans Joseph | blacksmith |
| Yeomans Montagu | shopkeeper |
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