Hooton Roberts
Domesday Book - Lands of Roger de Bully.In Newhill and Hooton Roberts and Old Denaby, Wulfheah and , Ulfkil had 6 carucates of land to the geld, where there could be 4 ploughs. Roger has now 1 plough there, and 6 villans and 6 bordars with 3 bordars, and the site of a mill. There is woodland pasture 9 furlongs long and 2 broad. TRE worth 4l ; now 30s. To these manors belongs sokeland in Maltby of half a carucate of land to the geld.
Hooton Roberts, recorded in the Domesday Book as Hotun and later known as Hoton Robert during the 13th century after the village owner, Robert
Hooton, ‘farmstead on a spur of land’ From A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names & Places
In the court of William de Wyntworth in 1391
The water mill was owned in 1554 by Christopher Mountforth
This hillside village above the River Don has had a church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, since Norman days, and though some of it is modern, there is old walling in the nave, a round Norman arch in the chancel, and a pointed one only a little younger leads to the chapel. The new chancel arch is in the old style. The tower is 15th century. A stone coffin has a lid with a cross and a challice, and in a window with fine old glass are a tiny monk and a big bishop. Robert Burrowes was rector for 53 years in the 17th century, and Charles Eyre served 63 years, dying in 1860.
The Hall-House was formerly one of the principal seats of the Earl of Strafford, who was beheaded in the reign of Charles I. It was then the property of Earl Fitzwilliam; and occupied by three Miss Kents. After the death of the first Earl of Strafford, his widow lived in the house by the church until her burial by torchlight in the chancel in 1688. It had always been thought that her husband was buried at Wentworth Woodhouse, where there is a memorial to him, but in 1895, workmen repairing the church, found three skeletons near the altar, one looking as if the head had been cut off, and it is thought possible this may be the Earl, his wife and daughter.
Hooton Manor House was built between 1560 and 1630 and altered in the 18th century.
Trades from Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822:
- John Booth, blacksmith
- John Hanby, shoemaker
- John Malpus, victualler, Board
Described in 1849 as a small village and parish, near the Doncaster Road, four and a half miles N.E. of Rotherham, containing 175 inhabitants, and 1100 acres of land, belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, the patron of the rectory, and Lord of the Manor.
The Church of St. John. is a small ancient structure, which has undergone many repairs and alterations, though its interior still preserves its original Norman architecture; and in the east window is the effigy of a bishop reading a book.
The rectory was valued, in 1831, at £340. The Rev. Charles Wolf Eyre, M.A., was the incumbent.
Trades
- William Belk, Wheelwright
- Mary Booth, Blacksmith
- Rev. Richard C. Didham, Curate
- George Earnshaw, Shoemaker
- Samuel Jenkinson, Coachman
- William Mullpass, Mason
- Susannah Milner, Cowkeeper
- Abraham Moorhouse, Joiner
- William Hy. Pickard. Gent, Manor House
- John Robinson,Toll Collector
- William Snipe, Schoolmaster
- Richard Wainwright, Shopkeeper
- Matthew Wilson, Shoemaker
Farmers
- Francis Barlow
- William Bingley
- John Hanby
- Simn Jenkinson
- Abraham Moorhouse
- Francis Nicholson
- William Rhodes
- Thomas Robinson
- Luke Storey
- William Waterhouse and Butcher
Sourced from The Sheffield Gazetteer 1868
Hooton Roberts, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of Strafforth, West Riding county York. Here are some excellent freestone quarries, which supplied the material for Wentworth House. The soil consists of loam and clay, with subsoil limestone. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £255. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient stone structure, with a square tower containing a clock and three bells. In the interior of the church is a painted window. This is the burial-place of Lady Strafford, whose interment took place by torchlight, it being her wish that no monument should be erected to her memory, nor funeral sermon preached. The countess had resided in this parish several years after the decapitation of her husband in the reign of Charles I. The register dates from 1702. There is a school for both sexes, in which a Sunday-school is also held. Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor and sole landowner
Rev. Reginald Alfred Gatty, eldest son of Alfred Vicar of Ecclesfield, became Rector of Hooton Roberts. He was born in 1844–1914, he acquired a reputation as a field archaeologist and local historian.
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Mesolithic-Bronze Age flint implements from the area include 24 leaf-shaped, 1 tranchet, and 14 barbed and tanged arrowheads, also blades, scrapers, borers, and micro-cores. These are in the Gatty collection at Sheffield City Museum.
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Early references:Quit-claim by Brother Richard de Halgton prior of Bretton Monachorum, and the convent of the same to Robert Russell of Tykhill, of all right in the manor of Allerthwaite and in 5 Marks annually which they had sought before the Justices of the Bench against Robert by reason of the charter of Lord John de Novembero Mercato, for this quit-claim, Robert granted to them in frankalmoign 1d rent in Hoton Robert and the advowson of the church of the same village. 30 March 1315 Source: Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections: Papers of the Monckton-Arundell Family, Viscounts Galway of Serlby Hall, Nottinghamshire:Reference: Ga 9215
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