Mexborough
Domesday name: Mechesburg.
Domesday Book - Lands of Roger de Bully. In Mexborough, Wulfheah, Ulfkil had 5 carucates of land to the geld, where there could be 4 ploughs, Roger has now 1 plough there; and 8 villans and 4 bordars with 3 ploughs, and 1 mill rendering 8s. TRE worth 6l ; now 40s.
Mexborough, the 'Maise-belly' of Matthew of Westmoreland, is a good village, built chiefly of stone, and seated on the north side of the Don, 6 miles north-east of Rotherham. It is noted for its potteries, its ex cellent quarries of building and grinding stones, and for the vestiges of several Roman aggers, supposed to have been raised to strengthen the neighbouring fortification at Templeborough. The church is a curacy in the patronage of Archdeacon Markham, the impropriator. The Earl of Mexborough owns 100 acres, but Captain Kater is the principal proprietor of the Lordship. In the village are three Methodist chapels, belonging to the Primitives, Kilhamites, and Wesleyans; and also six almhouses, endowed in 1669, by Messrs. Horne and Calverly, with £6 a year. The parish contains 2001 acres, and 1270 inhabitants, and is divided into the two townships of Mexbro' and Denaby, the latter of which is on the opposite bank of the Don, and belongs to John Fullerton, Esq. A part of Swinton chapelry is in this parish.
Source: White's Directory, 1833
Trades 1833
Robert Axe, blacksmith
Saml.Barker earthenware mfr.
J. & Rt. Butler Day , boat builders
Thomas Gill, stone mason
Robert Glassby, schoolmaster
George Killam, tailor
Rev. Leonard Jasper Hobson
Thos. Rawson wheelwright and joiner
Read, Taylor, & Co. earthenware manufacturers
George Sutton, wheelwright
George Truelove , blacksmith
Robert Tyas and Wm. White. tailors.
Fras. Ulley nail manufacturer
John Wood, timber dealer
Public Houses
Ferry Boat: George Sutton
George & Dragon: Martha Tyson
Masons’ Arms: Eadon Poulson
Red Lion: John Simpson
Shoemakers
John Sutton
John Axe
Thomas Ward
Joseph Barlow
Wm.Wilkinson
Jph. England
T.Woffendale
William Ford
Thomas Gibson
Joseph Makin
Samuel Medley
T. Moorhouse
Quarry Owners
Jph. Palfreyman
John Willey
Shopkeepers
Wm. Cresswell
Geo. Eastwood
Jsh. Goulding
J. Hackin
Jph.Lockwood (and miller)
Wililiam Stead, Butchers, and saddler
Boat Owners
Benj. Beavers
Geo.Bisby
Joseph Shaw
John Scarbro
John Wofenden
Butchers
John Anty
John Fearn
Jeremiah Gillott
James Wilson
Farmers
John Bulay
Samuel Carnley
Wm. Dickinson
Jane Goodwin
Jph. Machin
Charles Pashley
John Sellers
Denaby Farmers
Mary Jehnson
John Linfitt
Job Longley
Ann Midgeley
John Mowbray
Robert Parker
George Pearson
Jph. Roebuck
Wm. Shepherd
1862
Described in 1862 as a considerable and well built village and parish, in the lower division of the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, pleasantly situated at the junction of the Dearne and Dove Canal with the river Don, 6 miles N.N.E. of Rotherham, contains 1,169 acres of land, and in 1861, 572 houses, and 2,461 inhabitants. Rateable value, £5,964. Andrew F.W. Montague, Esq., of Malton on the Hill, and Edward Kater, Esq., are principal owners, besides whom are several small freeholders. The Church is an ancient edifice, consisting of nave and chancel, with a tower, surmounted by a spire. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £95. The Archdeacon of York, patron, and the Rev. Henry Ellershaw, B.A., incumbent. The Wesleyan, New Connexion, and Primitive Methodists, have each chapels here. The National School, with residence for the master, forms a neat stone building, erected by subscription in 1800; master, vacant; Elizabeth Watkinson, mistress. Here is also a British School, of which William Wadsworth, is the master. The Midland and South Yorkshire Railways, each intersect the township; and here is a neat station where the two lines meet. The Don Iron and Glass Bottle Works are in the township, and there is also a large Pottery, and Quarries of excellent stone, either for building or grinding purposes.
Denaby is a small village and township on the opposite bank of the Don, and in the higher division of Strafforth and Tickhill. It consists 1,022 acres of land, and in 1861, 203 inhabitants. Rateable value, £1,906 1s 7d. John Fullerton Esq., is the principal owner.
Mexborough Post Office, at James Walter Ainley's. Letters arrive at 8.45 a.m., and are despatched at 5.30 p.m.
John Banks - Greengrocer
Henry and Samuel Barker - Iron manufacturers, Don Iron Works
Samuel Barker and Son - Earthenware Manufacturers, Don Pottery
Mrs. Samuel Barker - Mexborough House
Samuel Barker - Iron Manufacturer (Henry and Samuel Barker)
Joseph Barron and Co. - Glass Bottle Manufacturers, Don Glass Works
Joseph Beaumont - Greengrocer
Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett
George Bennett - Cooper
Henry Bolsover and Son - Brewers
William Booth - Cow ? and Land Valuer
George Brant - China and Earthenware Dealer
James Buckley - Fishmonger
Charles Bullock - Accountant
Henry Buncall - Temperance Hotel
Andrew Carmichael - Surgeon
John William Carnley - Thrashing Machine Owner
William Cresswell - Brick and Tile Maker
Rev. Henry Ellershaw, B.A. - Incumbent
Richard Elliott - Watchmaker
James Emery - Earthenware Teapot Manufacturer
Mark B. Frearson - Veterinary Surgeon
John Harrison - Crate Maker
Joseph Hewitt - Gentleman
Jonathan Hulley - Nail Maker
Elizabeth Jackson - Hosier
James Lawton - Saddler
Mr. George Lockwood
William Lovett - Parish Clerk
Joel Kirby - Wholesale Ironmonger and Merchant; and 4, Market Street, Sheffield
John Pitt Makin - Auctioneer and nast? Overseer
Thomas Pool - Police Officer
John Reed - Earthenware Manufacturer, Mexborough Pottery
Henry Ridgill - Plumber and Glazier
John Rodgers - Musician
William Roebuck - Cooper and Brush Dealer
Ruth Schorsh - Hosier
Thomas Henry Simpson - Brick, Tile, and Tube Works
Matthew Smith - Brick Yard Manager
Mr. George Sutton
Samuel Swallow - Ferry Boat Manager
Benjamin Verity - Railway Contractor
William Wadsworth - British School
Mrs. Elizabeth Waring
Elizabeth Watkinson - National School
Mrs Ann Willey
Inns and Taverns
Crown - Thomas Shutt
Ferry Boat - Richard Fearn
George and Dragon - John Blackburn
Montague Arms - George Crossby
Mason's Arms - William Gouldthorpe
Red Lion - George Wilson
Beerhouses
Joseph Ford
Enoch Jackson
John Smith
Henry Stenton
John Stephens
John Utley
Robert Watkinson
John Woffinden
Blacksmiths
William Cooper
James Duke
Boat Builders
Thomas Scholey
Peter Waddington
Boat Owners
Henry Barker
Joseph Barron & Co.
William and John Beavers
George Bisby
George Bisby
Jesse Bisby
Joseph Bisby
Colin Dyson
Joseph Ford
William Kershaw
Elizabeth Lee
Thomas Lewis
Richard Middleton
Henry Moore
John Shaw
John Ward
John Woffinden
Butchers
John Bamforth
William Booth
Joseph Glassby
Edward Law (pork)
John Mawson
John Rich (pork)
Edward Simpson
John Smallwood
John Swallow
John Truelove
Harriet Webster
William Wilson
Chemists and Druggists
James Walter Ainley
Andrew Carmichael
William Knowles
Farmers
John Blackburn
John Dickenson
Richard Fearn
Jonathan Healey
Joseph Lockwood
John Pitt Makin
Charles Pashley
John Shaw
William Smith
George Sutton (amd Maltster)
John Ward
William Waring
Hairdressers
George Axe
Herbert Holland
Joiners
George Athorne
George Briggs
George Dix
Gotha Dodsworth
Samuel Dodsworth
Thomas Rawson
Quarry Owners
Joseph Barlow
James Beal
George Codd
William Ford
Andrew Pool
William Steel
Shopkeepers
- marked * are drapers alsoJames Allinson & Son
James Armitage
Joseph Bullock
Charles Coe
*Charles Dickinson (and Corn Miller)
David Gott
*Eccles Greaves
Richard Handley
John Harrison
Joshua Jennings
*James Jowitt
Elizabeth Leach
Joseph Lee
Mary Lockwood
George Morton
Martha Smith
William Smith
John Ward
Charles Wheen
Stationers and Newsagents
John Ford
John Turner
Stone Masons
James Armitage
Samuel Armitage
Thomas Armitage
Tailors
George Brown
Joseph Bullock (and Draper and Clothier)
Jon Killam (and Draper)
John Smith
Henry William Tyas
Charles Wheen
Wheelwrights
George Athorne
Samuel Dodsworth
Thomas Rawson
Railway Conveyance - South Yorkshire Station. There at 5 up and 4 down S.Y. Trains, and 4 Midland Trains each way daily
Mexborough Market
The Market Hall consists of 40 unit/shops and the Outer Market consists of 36 stalls.Market days are Monday, Friday and Saturday with a second hand market held every Thursday although many traders in the market hall are open 6 days a week Monday to Saturday. Free Parking
The Fish Market is located off Market Street at the side of the old Market Hall
History of Mexborough Market »
Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, attended Schofield Street Junior school, and in 1943 Mexborough Grammar School.
Mike Hawthorn, famous racing driver was born in Mexborough on 10th April, 1929.
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