Charlesworth Charlesworth Information CHARLESWORTHs of Bolsover, Derbyshire | CHARLESWORTHs of Bolsover, Derbyshire |
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I have several CHARLESWORTH lines from the Bolsover area of Derbyshire in my files. They can be divided into the following lines.
NOTE: The Gazette line is now defunct having been absorbed into the Black Bull Line. I try to only include CHARLESWORTH lines where I have information for three generations or more. The exceptions for this are the singular James CHARLESWORTH (the STACEY one) and the MASON line - both explained below. I also have a few other "odds and sods" lying around in my database, so it's always worth contacting me to see if I have a mention of your own Bolsover area CHARLESWORTH(s). These lines are probably all related, but I have yet to find the common ancestors. One of these families, I'm not sure which, is mentioned in the Bolsover entry from Kelly's 1891 directory of Derbyshire: ...the East window is Decorated and filled with stained glass as a memorial to several members of the Charlesworth family... I previously said that one day, I would make it to St Mary's Church in Bolsover to check it out. I have been beaten to it by Terry CHARLESWORTH who reports that the East window has been dedicated to the memory of Augusta Mary Elizabeth CAVENDISH-BENTINCK (nee BROWNE), 1st Baroness Bolsover, since 1893. Ancestral Families The Black Bull Line I named this line the Black Bull line because my ancestor Richard CHARLESWORTH was an Inn Keeper at the Black Bull Inn in Bolsover (he's listed in the 1842 Pigot's Directory). Before that he apparently ran the Bull and Dog (Glover's and Pigot's Directories covering 1821 to 1835), which may be the same place? The family maintained connections with the Black Bull Inn (which still stands, with the same name) for several generations. ASIDE: On most of the census information I have, Richard is actually listed as an agricultural labourer, although the family are very close to the Black Bull. William CHARLESWORTH, a third cousin once removed of Richard, is listed as the innkeeper on the 1851 census. Another William, currently unrelated, was the proprietor of the Angel in Bolsover between (at least) 1835 and 1842. His mother, an unmarried Mary, was the proprietor of the Horse & Jockey from 1821 to 1829. Confused yet? You will be! As the nearest family to me descent-wise, and the first that I and my relatives knew about, this line has the most information. History The first record of this family I have traced is the marriage of Richard CHARLESWORTH and Anne BULL in Upper Langwith, a village near Bolsover, in 1684. They had seven children christened in the same village. In the main, the family stick to Bolsover and Langwith parishes, with a few forays into nearby Scarcliffe and Pleasley parishes. For example, Richard and Anne's eldest son, John (1689), married in Pleasley and had several children before returning to Upper Langwith to have several more. His youngest son Jonathan (1734, Upper Langwith) moved first to Pleasley and then to Scarcliffe - also nearby. A London Gazette Appearance There is a John CHARLESWORTH of this family referenced at the Gazette Online [External link] database (London Gazette, Issue 26494, 13 March 1894): JOHN CHARLESWORTH, Deceased.
(Electronic Page 30 of 72) This John CHARLESWORTH's branch have previously being given as the Gazette line but the connection to the Black Bull line was found in December 2009. Kissing Cousins With the former Gazette line having been absorbed into the Black Bull line, some of the CHARLESWORTH to CHARLESWORTH marriages have become more tightly defined. Currently, there are three such marriages in my Black Bull files, two between known relatives. Assuming all connections are correct, this reads as:
NOTE: Others have identified the Ann who married John CHARLESWORTH in 1785 (marriage 2) as the Ann (1759, Upper Langwith) I have identified as marrying William (marriage 3). Considering the available Johns, Williams and Anns, I think my combination the best fit. However, not only am I happy to be proven wrong but I'm actually wondering whether I have the right John for the pairing! The absorption of the former Gazette line has created a closer blood relationship between my marriage 2 suspects that I am currently happy with. There are other marriages within the related families that ensure a rather close-knit use of names. The most obvious examples:
And Robin TAYLOR, another descendent of the Black Bull got in touch (e-mail dated 04/01/2010) with the following correction and thus in-family marriage: On your BlackBullCharlesworth file go to no 1652 Elizabeth Charlesworth bap 1787. You have her being married to a John Ruel. I think you will find that this should be John Revill, you can also find him and Elizabeth in 1841 (bottom left) & 1851, (middle, also transcribed wrong) both attached. There is also a marriage for Elizabeth Charlesworth and John Reville 3 Feb 1818 in Upper Langwith. Now I have a spare John Revell/Revill/Reville bap 16-6-1789 in Bolsover which fits the census for both date & location. And this John is the 4th child of Elizabeth Charlesworth and William Revill, Elizabeth being the 2nd child of the Jonathan Charlesworth / Elizabeth Turner family and the younger sister of John and therefore the aunt of Elizabeth. So Elizabeth & John were 1st cousins, thankfully I can't see them having any children. Of course, identification numbers in the files change somewhat with these kinds of alterations but you should be able to spot the brides and grooms in question! Anyway, add to this a chain of marriages which links the Black Bull line to the STACEY one and a number of repeat marriages into other families. There are also other indications of potential relationships with other CHARLESWORTH lines, such as the use of the name Job and Abel, which occur in other lines and records but are either currently unconnected or totally unidentifiable. Family Stories Story 1: D H LAWRENCE My great grandmother, Edith May CHARLESWORTH apparently told my aunt K Mary BECK that the family was some how connected to D H LAWRENCE. I am not sure whether she meant a family connection or a friendship connection. Story 2: The GASCOIGNE HALL family I have another note from Mary that says we're connected to the GASCOYGNE (pronounced GASKIN) HALL family "who helped found the LDS church". I know nothing about the founding of the LDS church, but I do have an old photo of Edith May, with her sister Kate CHARLESWORTH and Jackie GASCOYGNE (thank you to David CARROLL for deciphering & to my aunt for verifying). I've scanned the front and back to show you all.
My aunt also passed this information along while verifying Jackie's identity: If memory serves he married one of our Charlesworth grandmother's sisters. You should see that there is another Charlesworth sister who has an illegitimate son known as Teddy (Edwin?). The birth father was Jackie, who I seem to remember was a bit of a rogue. There was no Teddy/Edwin/Edward in the data that I was given by my aunts, so I had no idea who this was, but keep reading! If memory serves he was illegitimate, his father being his mother's brother in law - I think, though I may be confusing him with a Charlesworth, but I don't think so. On the other hand I remember meeting the illegitimate one, who said he felt for the first time that he was truly a Charlesworth, now that he had been asked about the family tree. Perhaps Jackie was the father of the illegitimate Charlesworth - I would have to see the tree for the visual prompt to bring back the memory. I think it was Jackie Gascoygne who it was claimed went out to America the help found the Mormons - so much claimed, so much unproved! I do remember that Jackie was remembered as a rogue! Both quotes are extracts from an e-mail received 03/04/2007 from another aunt who had received them as part of two separate e-mails, hence the overlap. On 30/04/2007 I received an e-mail from Terry CHARLESWORTH who had been told about the site by his cousin. Terry is the grandson of Teddy (Arthur Edwin CHARLESWORTH). Teddy was the son of Kate CHARLESWORTH by John (Jack) COUPE, the husband of her (and Edith May's) elder sister Bertha Ann. Kate married Jack GASCOYNE before 1940. Terry included the following in his e-mail: The picture was a surprise as it shows Jack Gascoyne (note surname spelling and he was never called Jackie), my grandma Kate (as it didn't have the date I'm not sure if they were married at that time) and her sister. Incidentally my step-granddad Jack Gascoyne was a miner and never associated (or his family) with the Mormon / LDS church - or any other church for that matter. My 'uncle' George Henry Charlesworth always lived there with them. The house (shown faintly in the background RHS) where this was taken was where I lived for about 7 years from the start of WWII - its address was: "Laurel House", 27a Old Hill, Bolsover and the front view looked directly at Bolsover Castle. The house was demolished after grandma died to turn the adjacent lane into a road for a newly built housing estate. Also, the house on the LHS of the picture is where a very old lady called Mrs Coupe (I'm not sure of any family connections) lived! Terry has kindly supplied a brief family tree that I have included with the Black Bull CHARLESWORTHs downloadables and the following photo of his grandmother and Jack taken in 1946:
Incidentally, I have checked with my aunt about the use of "Jackie" and she is adamant that this is the name that Sybil BECK, her great aunt, used for Jack GASCOYNE. But then, I don't suppose that it would be that surprising if the pet name a relative who probably didn't see the Bolsover branch of the family very often wasn't remembered. I now have to work out who the rogue character is who is apparently responsible for starting the LDS connection myth. My Connection I am descended from Richard and Anne's second son, William (1692, Upper Langwith). William's son Richard (1730, Upper Langwith) was apprenticed to John CARTER, a cordwainer in Bolsover, in 1743 and the family seems to have been based there from then on. The innkeeping Richard CHARLESWORTH (1796, Bolsover) was the cordwainer Richard's grandson. The innkeeper's granddaughter, Edith May CHARLESWORTH, was the mother of my maternal grandfather. Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the Black Bull CHARLESWORTHs: ABBISS,
Connected Families The Job Line This family is named after Job CHARLESWORTH, a basketmaker of Bolsover. I've run across Job several times while researching my own CHARLESWORTHs but it wasn't until I found out that his daughter Sarah married Joseph CREE [External Link] that I bothered starting to collect information. I only have 3 generations and I am not directly related. History I think Job CHARLESWORTH, basketmaker, is Job christened in Chesterfield in 1787, the son of a Sarah. I found this on the IGI, as an extraction from parish registers. Job married in Upper Langwith and his first daughter was christened there (both 1809). Sarah, his second, was christened in Pleasley (1811) and his remaining children were christened in Bolsover. Sarah married Joseph CREE in Warsop (Nottinghamshire) but lived in Scarcliffe and Bolsover. Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the Job CHARLESWORTHs: BUNTING,
The STACEY One I have one more CHARLESWORTH in the indirectly related group of interest if only for having the right name in roughly the right area (Chesterfield rather than Bolsover). History James CHARLESWORTH married Ellen STACEY in Chesterfield in 1860. An IGI record has them married in Tupton and James as born in 1828 in Stonegravels, Chesterfield. Ellen was my 1st cousin 5 times removed, being a member of the STACEY/HAYWOOD family, who married into the HILLs, who married into the Black Bull CHARLESWORTHs. Unconnected Families The Abel Line I've named this currently unrelated-to-me family after Abel CHARLESWORTH, the individual I have the most information relating to. History The starting couple are a Thomas and Ellen or Elinor CHARLESWORTH who apparently married in Upper Langwith in 1773. They lived in Bolsover parish, where they had five children that I know of, two daughters and three sons, including Abel. Abel became a farmer. And died in 1841, leaving his wife, Mary to farm his land. Abel and Mary had seven daughters. I have no further data about this line. Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the Abel CHARLESWORTHs: ARMSTRONG,
The Duckmanton Line By the time of the 1841 census, this as yet unrelated-to-me family was living in Bolsover, the head of their household a stone mason called Richard (although he's a publican on that census). History The first record I have tentatively identified as belonging to this family is the marriage of the same Richard to Elizabeth KENYON, in Duckmanton (or Sutton-cum-Duckmanton at the time) in 1815. Six of their eight children were christened there. They later moved to Bolsover, where I've identified the marriages of three of their children. The two sons, George (1817) and Richard (1824), were both stone masons. Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the Duckmanton CHARLESWORTHs: DRURY,
The Isaac Line This currently unrelated-to-me family is named after Isaac CHARLESWORTH, the furthest back I've got with this family. The first record I have is actually from just over the county border, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. History The first record I have is the 1815 marriage of Isaac to Charlotte COCKING in Mansfield. They had seven children, most christened in Pleasley, Derbyshire and one in Mansfield. The eldest son, Isaac, went on to have seven children of his own, all from Pleasley Hill, in Mansfield parish, and they can all be found on either side of the border in the various censuses. The name Isaac crops up on three occasions over the three generations I have and the men were generally stonemasons. I'm not sure whether the first Isaac is from the area or simply settled there. I saw an IGI record that suggested he was from Ashover, which might make him related to the Richard who heads the Duckmanton line. But that is a submitted file and I'm not prepared to include it in my own research, as yet. However, I have since looked him up in a couple of censuses and they also list him as an Ashover CHARLESWORTH. ASIDE: Coincidentally, there is a third Ashover CHARLESWORTH in Bolsover area who was also a Stonemason - a William born circa 1804. I don't really believe in coincidence, but I have no evidence... Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the Isaac CHARLESWORTHs: ALVEY,
The MASON Line Please note: This section only covers 2 generations. It is a remnant and remains here in case anyone was interested in this family and used information in the past. In other words, I'm trying to make it easy to track the changes. As yet, I am unable to get this Bolsover family further back than a John CHARLESWORTH who married a Sarah MASON, hence wanting to refer to this as the "MASON-DIXON" line. It does roll off the tongue, but I'm resisting so far. Apologies if you don't get the poor joke. History The first record I've found is the MASON-CHARLESWORTH marriage in Bolsover in 1764. Of the Bolsover area John CHARLESWORTHs, the most likely match from my records is a Rebecca line John christened in 1726, but it's not a match I'm currently happy with. Anyway, back to John and Sarah. They hit the news in 1772 with the birth of sextuplets:
This is a scanned copy of a cutting from "News from the English Countryside 1750 - 1850" sent to me by David FLETCHER (descendant of the Black Bull CHARLESWORTHs) in January 2010. In case you have difficulty with the result (I've had to manipulate it to fit), here's a transcription: Sextuplets at Bolsover
There seems to be a minor confusion over the gender of the two surviving children as the baptismal records imply two boys, James and William, from the first labour lived. David reported that they both died in September 1772. In the pdf file, for sake of ease, I've assumed the other four children - gender unspecified - died on their days of birth. John and Sarah's first child, John (1764, Bolsover), was christened just 2 months after their marriage. Previously, I had this John identified with the one who married a Black Bull Ann CHARLESWORTH (1766, Upper Langwith). Based on the names of offspring, I had a reshuffle and this line now ends with John's marriage to Amelia CHARLESWORTH (1760, Bolsover), daughter of Thomas and Alice (nee CHAPMAN) and of the Rebecca line, in 1786 in Bolsover. Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the MASON CHARLESWORTHs: CHARLESWORTH,
The Rebecca Line I called this the Rebecca line simply because the first person on it I found was Rebecca CHARLESWORTH who married George CUTTS in 1774. I then found an IGI record (patron submission, so not "the gospel truth"!) for Rebecca's christening and it went on from there. However, I was then given information for another Rebecca CHARLESWORTH marriage of about the same time (1777, Bolsover), which is more likely to match the christening and family details so my own Rebecca is once more "unattached". History The first record for this line that I've found is the christening of Thomas CHARLESWORTH (CHARLEWORTH), son of Thomas, in Bolsover, 1675. Thomas senior had another son, Richard (CHARLSWORTH), christened 1680 in Bolsover. My guess is that Thomas senior is likely to be a cousin of the first Richard CHARLESWORTH of the Black Bull line. Thomas junior married and had a daughter called Rebecca (1715, Bolsover). Richard married in Clowne (Derbyshire), which is relatively nearby, but returned to live in Bolsover, where he had 7 children. His son Thomas was the father of the Rebecca I formerly thought my ancestress and the Amelia who married a John CHARLESWORTH, who is probably of the Mason line. I have only found four Rebecca (or variants) CHARLESWORTHs in the seven generations I have incomplete records for. There are two further related Rebecca with other surnames. My current theory is that they were named after Thomas senior's wife (name unknown). Files
Related Families Families who married into, or were married into by, the Rebecca CHARLESWORTHs: ALISON,
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