Desborough Study: Transcriptions
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 1898
DESBOROUGH
DESBOROUGH is a parish and town, on the main 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 parish was governed by a Local Board of 9 members, created
by an Order of the Northamptonshire County Council, confirmed by
Local Government Order, No. 27,418, dated September 3, 1891, but
under the provisions of the "Local Government Act 1898" (56 and
57 Vict. c.74), an Urban District Council of 12 members has been
formed.
The church of St. Giles is
a cruciform building of stone, in the Early English and
later 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 has been completely restored : partially new roofed, the gallery removed, a
lectern, prayer desk and pulpit added, and the interior 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 £150, including 115 acres
of glebe, with residence, in the gift of W. C. Clarke-Thornhill esq. and
held since 1894 by the Rev. Percy James Boyer M.A. of Balliol College,
Oxford. There are Wesleyan Methodist, Baptist
and Congregational chapels, and Christian assembly rooms.
The Oddfellows' Hall, erected in 1888, is used for all kinds of
entertainments.
The manufacture of boots, shoes, stays and the raising of iron ore gives
employment to a great many hands.
The Loakes charity consists of a sum of £65 15s. 4d., the interest on
which, under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 17 December, 1897,
is devoted to the general purposes of the poor. 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 now (1898) produces about £15 per annum, which sum is distributed amongst the poor of
the parish; the church land produces £11 10s. yearly for church
purposes. The urban district council have the power of
appointing trustees of the parochial charities.
The Manor House is the residence of George Harrison Champion Holden de
Crespigny esq. 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 ironstone; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and oats. The
parish extends over 2,399 acres; rateable value, £12,255; the population in 1891 was 2,872.
Sexton, Matthew Coe.
POST, M.O. & T.O., T.M.O., Express Delivery, Parcel Post,
S.B. & Insurance & Annuity Office.-- William Marlow, sub-postmaster. Letters through Market Harborough
(Leicester) are delivered at
7.45 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; dispatched at 8.50 a.m. & 12.30, 5.55 &
8.30 p.m. week days only; there is no delivery or dispatch of letters
here on sunday.
WALL LETTER BOX, near station, cleared 8.55 a.m. & 12.40, 5.55
& 8.45 p.m.
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Meets at the Board School, fortnightly, on the second tuesday at 6.30 p.m.
Members.
Chairman,
George Ward Sumner
Vice-Chairman, John George Bird
Officers.
- Clerk, Charles William Lane, George street, Kettering
- Treasurer, Orlando Edmonds
- Medical Officer of Health,
Henry Gibbons M.B.,
C.M. Glendkindie house
- Surveyor &
Sanitary Inspector, Wm. Turner Streather
- Police Station, P. Thomas, sergeant, & 1 constable
- Desboro' Volunteer Fire Brigade Station, with a steam fire engine,
Dixon Palmer, captain
A School Board of 7 members was formed Aug. 24, 1878; C. Burgoine,
Market Harborough, clerk to the board; Joseph Barnes, Desborough,
attendance & inquiry officer.
Board School (mixed & infants), built, with master's residence, in 1878,
at a cost of about £3,500, & enlarged in 1891 for 180 boys, 180 girls &
200 infants; average attendance, 170 boys, 160 girls & 180 infants;
Henry Wallis, master; Miss
Laura Hully, mistress; Miss Kate Blunt, infants' mistress.
National School (mixed), built in 1885, at a cost of about £600, for 90
children, with a full average attendance; Miss
Fanny Cooke, mistress.
The old National School, rebuilt in 1894, is still used, and will hold
about 30 scholars.
Railway Station,
Thomas Gadsby, station master.
CARRIERS:-- John Crick to Kettering on fri; William Palmer to Market
Harborough & Rothwell tues & sat.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Boyer, Rev. Percy James M.A. (vicar)
Buckle, William
Cheaney, Joseph
de Crespigny, George Harrison Champion Holden J.P.
Manor House
Fenton, Frederick C
Gadsby, Thomas
Gibbons Henry M.B.
Glenkindie house
Martin, James
Moore, Jonn. Reuben, Desborough house
Near, Rev. Isaac (Baptist)
Riley, Frederick
Sheavyn, John
Shorten, Rev. Richard (Congregational)
Streather, William Turner
Wallis, Henry
| COMMERCIAL |
| Asher Ann (Mrs.) | draper |
| Asher, Frank Andrew | cycle agent |
| Ball, John
Henry | blacksmith |
| Bamford, Benjamin | Farmer |
| Barnes, Joseph | school attendance & inquiry officer |
| Bird, Jesse | grocer |
| Bird John George |
grocer, draper, & wine merchant |
| Bird, Samuel | ironmonger |
| Bloore, Thomas William | insurance agent, Harborough road |
| Blunsum, Henry | baker |
| Burditt, H. & Co. | stay & corset manufacturers |
| Burkett, William | boot dealer |
| Chater, Joseph Woolston | farmer |
| Cheaney, Joseph | wholesale boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Clarke, Thomas | farmer |
| Clements, Geo. | miller (steam & water) |
| Coe, Henry | beer retailer |
| Coe, John | shopkeeper & beer retailer |
| Conservative Club | (Wm. Worrall, sec) |
| Crick, William |
rate collector |
| Daisley, William | farmer, Daisley Lodge farm |
| Dawkins Joseph,
sen | builder, carpenter & contractor |
| Dean, Herbert | chemist |
| Desboro' Co-operative Boot & Shoe Manufacturing
Society Limited |
|
Desboro' Gas Co. Limited (Dixon Palmer, manager) |
| Desboro' Industrial & Provident Co-operative Society
Limited (Jesse Marlow, sec) |
| Desboro' New Building Society (Henry Wallis,
sec) |
| Desboro' Reading Room & Temperance Institute
Lim. (John Hodges, sec) |
| Desboro' Volunteer Fire Brigade (Dixon Palmer,
captain) |
| Desboro' Working Men's Club & Institute Limited
(Wm. Hall, sec) |
| Dillon, Charles | shopkeeper |
| Dillon, Charles Carew | boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Dines, Joseph Allan | Angel P.H. & butcher |
| Dodson, John | beer retailer |
| Eales, Eliza (Mrs.) | grocer |
| Feakin, Charles | shopkeeper |
| Foster, John | tailor |
| Freer, Miller | general dealer |
| Gibbons, Henry M.B., C.M.
surgeon, & medical officer of health to Desboro' urban district
council, Glenkindie house |
| Ginns, John | grazier |
| Ginns, Mark | shopkeeper
& gardener |
| Groocock, George | grindery dealer |
| Gutteridge, William | hairdresser |
| Hief, Julius Rudolf | watch & clock ma |
| Hornsby, Arthur | King's Arms P.H. |
| Humfrey, Richard
(exors. of) | maltster, grazier & corn merchant |
| Jones, Daniel | carpenter
& wheelwright |
| Kendall, Rowland Underwood | hair dresser & tobacconist |
| Kilborn, Charlotte (Mrs.) | milliner & dress maker |
| Kilborn Herbert | butcher |
|
Kilborn, Thomas Rt | plumber & glazier |
| Lane, Charles William | solicitor & commissioner for
oaths, clerk to the guardians & assessment & school attendance
committees of Kettering union, to Barford, Glendon & Rushton united
district school board, & to Desborough urban & Kettering rural
district councils; attends every tuesday; & at George street,
Kettering |
| Leago, Elizabeth (Miss) |
dress maker |
| Leicestershire Banking Co Lim. | (Jn Horn, manager) (open
wed. & sat. 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.; draw on London & Westminster Bank
Limited |
| Liner, Ann (Mrs.) | farmer
& brick & tile manufacturer |
| Liner, George | butcher |
| Liner, Tom | pork butcher |
| Marlow, George | shopkeeper |
| Marlow & Son | printers, stationers & news agents, Post
office |
| Marlow, Henry | coal merchant |
| More, James M.D. | surgeon, surgery; & at Rothwell |
| Morris, Alfred | grocer
& newsagent |
| Muskett, Henry | farmer |
| Nichols, Son & Clow | wholesale boot & shoe
manufacturers |
| Page, Clarke | boot & shoe maker |
| Page, Hiram | shopkeeper & chimney sweeper |
| Page, Owen | boot & shoe maker |
| Riley, Benjamin |
wholesale boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Ruddick, Caroline (Mrs) | shopkeeper |
| Sheavyn, John | draper |
| Shepperson, John Thomas | grocer & provision dealer |
| Stamford, Spalding & Boston Banking Company Limited
(agent); open wed. & sat. from 9.30 a.m.
to 12.30 p.m. (William Atkins, manager); draw on Barclay, &
Co. London E C |
| Streather, Wm Turner | architect, surveyor & inspector to
the urban district council |
| Sumner,
George Ward | farmer & horse dealer |
| Symington R. & W. H. & Co. stay manufrs. (Morris
Coe manager) |
| Tailby William, jun. | butcher & farmer |
| Tailby Wm. W. |
Farmer |
| Thacker, John | New inn |
| Toone & Black | wholesale boot & shoe
manufacturers |
| Turner, William & Edward | wholesale boot & shoe maker |
| Turner, Alfred | florist |
| Turner, Jane (Mrs.) | butcher |
| Turner, Joseph Henry | florist |
|
Turner, Sl |
florist & market gardener |
| Wallis, Henry | schoolmaster |
| Waterhouse, Reynolds & Co | stay manufacturers (Wm. Chas.
Buckle, manager) |
| Webb Brothers | tailors |
| West & Ellis | coal, coke & lime merchants |
| West Thomas | shopkeeper |
| Whitmee, Jn Sl | farmer, The Grange |
| Wood John | farmer |
| Wyatt, Horace | grocer |
| Yeomans, James | blacksmith |
| Yeomans Montagu | shopkeeper |
| Yorke, James (Mrs.) | market gardener |
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