DESCRIPTION

The village of Osmaston, lying just over 2 miles south of Ashbourne, was formerly a chapelry of Brailsford. The church, dating from the 15th century and which replaced one of a much earlier date, was itself demolished and replaced by the present church in 1845. The registers which date from 1606 have been deposited at the County Record Office in Matlock and are available for research on film. This picturesque village, situated just off the main Derby to Ashbourne road, consists mainly of a single village street, lined with a few houses and thatched cottages, surrounded by a number of farm-steads dotted over the landscape. A little distant from the village, within its own extensive parkland and overlooking a large lake, stood the now demolished Osmaston Manor. The manor was built in the mid. 1800's by Francis Wright who provided money for the building of the present church and the village school. Francis Wright provided work on his estate for the people of the village, in fact many of the cottages were built by him to house his employees. Even today, the village is privately owned by the Walker-Okeover family who purchased the estate in the late 1800's.

LIST of SURNAMES from the Inscriptions

ADAMS	ADCOCK	ALLEN	ALLSOP	BAGSHAW
BAKER	BARDNEY	BARLOW	BARNES	BATEMAN
BECK	BEEBY	BEESTON	BELL	BERESFORD
BESTWICK	BINGHAM	BOOTH	BOULTON	BOWLER
BREBNER	BROOKS	BROWN	BROWNSON	BUCKLEY
BUNTING	BURNETT	CAIGER	CARTER	CAYZER
CHARLESWORTH	CLASSIC	CLIFFORD	CLOWS	COLLINS
COOKSON	COX	COXON	CURTIS	DAVIS
DAWSON	DENNY	DERRICK	DOXEY	ECKERSLEY
EVANS	FIELDING	FITZ-HERBERT	FLETCHER	FORD
FOX	FRANCIS	FROST	GADSBY	GARGEY
GERMAN	GETHIN	GOODALL	GORDON	GREEN
GRIME	HAIG	HALL	HALLSWORTH	HALSWORTH
HAMBLETON	HAMMERSLEY	HARRISON	HAWKSLEY	HELLABY
HILL	HODGKINSON	HOLMES	HOUSLEY	HURD
HURDD	HURT	JACKSON	JEFFERSON	JEFFREY
JOHNSON	JONES	KIRKLAND	KNOWLES	LEAF
LEWIS	LOYTON	LYONS	MARSDEN	MASSEY
MAY	MELLOR	MELVILLE	MILLWARD	MONDAY
MOON	MORLEY	MOSS	MURFIN	NAYLOR
NICHOLSON	NORMANSHAW	NUNN	OAKDEN	OFFLEY
OKEOVER	OULSNAM	PAGE	PARKIN	PATRICKSON
PEET	PELLY	PITT	PLANT	PLUMPTREE
PRESTON	PRINCE	PRITCHARD	PROSSER	REDDINGTON
REDFERN	RICE	ROBINSON	ROUTLEDGE	SALT
SANDERSON	SAW	SCHOLEFIELD	SELLERS	SHAW
SHORTHOSE	SHROSBERY	SIMS	SKINNER	SMITH
STANNING	STUBBS	STYLES	SWINDELL	TAIT
TATLOW	TAYLOR	THOMAS	THORP	TITTERTON
TORR	TRIVETT	TURNER	WAGSTAFFE	WALKER
WALL	WALLIS	WARD	WARNER	WARRINGTON
WATKINSON	WEBSTER	WHEELDON	WHINFIELD	WHITE
WIBBERLEY	WIGLEY	WIGRAM	WILLDER	WILLIAMSON
WILLIS	WOLLEY	WRIGHT	WYMER	YATES
YOUNG

MONUMENTAL MASONS

ANDERSON	DOXEY	HARDY	LIDSTER	ROBINSON
BERESFORD	FORD	HARRISON	MORIN	TIPPER
BUCKLOW	GARRATT	HOLLINS	OLDHAM	VERNON
COULSON	GOODALL	JOHNSON	OWEN	WALKER
DOCKSEY	HALL	LAMB	PARSONS

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