Surnames from the Memorial Inscriptions of St James Church, Shardlow
Published in October 2013
DESCRIPTION
The village of Shardlow is situated close to the Leicestershire border, just over one mile north of Castle Donington and just over two miles south-west of Draycott.
The Trent and Mersey Canal runs through the village and joins the river Trent about half a mile away. Shardlow is the county's only canal port and before the canal was built it was a river port. A ferry plied across the Trent between Shardlow and Leicestershire until it was replaced in 1760 by the Cavendish Bridge.
The Trent and Mersey Canal opened for traffic in 1770, but it was not until around 1778 that work began on the port warehouses, the adjacent buildings and stabling for the horses that pulled the barges carrying beer, cheese, iron, pottery, salt and timber.
Shardlow became a noisy place with the creaking of cranes, the rattling of chains and the shouts of the wharfmen. With the advent of the railways the canal trade diminished and the buildings alongside the canal fell into disrepair and most were demolished. One of the buildings still remaining is the Clock Warehouse at the wharf, bearing the date 1780. This is now a pub and restaurant.
Shardlow is now a quiet residential village with gardens of some of the houses extending to the canal bank. The canal now forms a pleasant marina for visiting pleasure craft.
The parish church dedicated to St. James was built in 1838 on a site given by Mr. James Sutton of Shardlow House, who also contributed to the cost of its construction. Until the church was built, Shardlow was part of the parish of Aston on Trent. The registers of Baptisms dating from 1838 and those of Marriages and Burials dating from 1839 have been deposited at the County Record Office at Matlock where they are available on film
to researchers.
LIST of SURNAMES from the Inscriptions
ADAMS ADKIN ALLEN ARCHER ARMSTRONG ASTLE BAITUP BAMFORD BARKER BARRETT BARTON BATTERSBY BAXTER BEALE BEEBY BENNETT BETTERIDGE BIRKIN BLACKSHAW BOE BOOTH BOTTOMLEY BOWLEY BREWIN BROOKING BROWN BRUCE BUCKETT BUCKLEY BURROWS BURTON BUTTERY BUXTON CALVERT CAPEWELL CHAMBERLAIN CHAMBERS CLARENCE CLARKE CLAYTON CLIFF CLIFFORD CONTISHAW COOK(E) COPE CORBETT COWLISHAW COX COXON CROWDER CUBLEY CULLEN DAKIN DALE DARLINGTON DEAN DEAS DERBYSHIRE DICKENSON DICKIN DICKINSON DRAKEFIELD DRAPER EAMES EATON EITOVEN ELLIS ESSEX EYRE FARLEY FARMER FARMERY FINLAY FLEWITT FOGG FORD FOSTER FOX FROW GAY GILBERT GLASSY GLENN GODDARD GOODALL GREGORY GRIME HALFORD HALL HALLAM HANDLEY HARDIMAN HARDY HARVEY HENSHALL HENSO HERROD HEWSON HINKLEY HOGG HOLDEN HOLLINGWORTH HOLMES IRONMONGER JACKSON JOHNSTONE KEEFE KENNEDY KERRY KIRKMAN LAIRD LAW LAYCOCK LEE LEWIS LLEWELLYN LLOYD LOCKER M'CLATCHE MANSFIELD MARSHALL MARSON MEADS MEE MOODY MOORE MORRIS MOUSLEY MUGG MUGGLESTONE McCLEMONT NAPIER NEWHAM NUTT OSBORNE OWEN PEGG PIPER PLACE PLACKET PORTER POSTLEWAITE POTTS POYSER RADFORD RATCLIFFE REDFERN REED RICE ROBERTS ROBERTSON ROBOT(T)HAM SANDERS SANT SAULT SCOTT SEPHTON SHARDLOW SHAW SHUTTLEWORTH SMEDLEY SMITH SNAPE SNUTCH SOAR SORESBY STAINTON STATHAM STEER STENNETT STEVENS STONE STURDY STURGESS SUTTON SWAIN T(H)OMPSON TAYLOR THACKER TILL TRIGG TRINDER TUNNICLIFF TURNER TUSHINGHAM TWELLS UNDERWOOD UPCHURCH UPTON VERKERK VON GRAWERT WAKERLEY WALL WALMSLEY WEBB WEBSTER WEDDALL WELLS WEST WHITELEE WHITLEY WILD WILLIAMS WINCOTT WINFIELD WINTER WOMBWELL WOOLLEY WRIGHT YATES
MONUMENTAL MASONS
BAGNALL JACKSON SHARMAN WHITE BERESFORD JOHNSON SHREEVE WHITE & Sons CARTWRIGHT C.D. KELHAM T. TINKLER WHITE J. COULSON R. LANDER TOMKINSON WHITE W. ECCLES PARSONS H. WARREN A. GADSBY & Co. ROBINSON J.B. WARREN F.
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