White’s Directory and Topography of Sheffield (1862)

MOSBOROUGH (in Domesday, Moresburg) is a large scattered hamlet and village 8 miles N.N.E. from Chesterfield, and 6 miles S.S.E. from Sheffield, lying to the north of Eckington, from which it is divided by a small brook. It contains 357 houses, and in 1861 had 1,709 inhabitants, of whom 874 were males. Sir Sitwell Reresby Sitwell, Bart., is lord of the manor and principal owner, besides whom there are several small freeholders. Mosborough Hall is a large square stone structure. with stone balustrades on the top. It is situated at the summit of the village, and is the seat and property of Charles Rotherham Esq. The Wesleyan Methodists have a neat stone chapel here, erected in 1829 and the Primitive Methodists one built in 1830. Many sickles and hooks are manufactured here; and here are also collieries, where coke is burned for steel refiners. In 1835, a corn mill here was destroyed by fire. Here is a Free School for boys and girls, erected in 1821, by subscription, at a cost of £200 and is endowed with lands etc. amounting to £28 10s 0d per annum, left by Joseph Stones in 1680. The Master instructs 20 children free, for which he has a house and garden rent free; he also receives the proceeds of the endowment, except what is reserved for repairs, and the interest of an old debt. The school is a neat stone building, and will hold about 100. It is taught on the National Plan. Mosbro’ includes Mosborough Moor, now enclosed; also Plumley, a small hamlet, about three quarters of a mile W., and Holbrook hamlet, about three quarters of a mile E.

MOSBOROUGH (Marked * are at Plumley)

Post Office at Jane Kemp’s. Letters arrive at 9.00a.m. and are dispatched at 5.00p.m.

  • Booth, George, wood tuner , wood hoop maker and surveyor of highways. British Oak
  • Bolsover, Thomas, draper
  • * Bunting and Alton, coal owners
  • Cadman, Charles, corn miller
  • Harris (Thomas) and Smith (Henry}, corn millers, Knowl Hill
  • Hayes, John Ibbotson, registrar of births and deaths
  • Herring, Thomas, tailor
  • Hodgson, Alfred, ironmonger
  • Jerrison, Glossop, slater
  • Keeton, Edwin, agent to the Sheffield Fire Office
  • Moorwood, William, gent., Rose Cottage, Mosbro’ Moor
  • Peat, Mr. Jabez
  • Peat, Mr. James
  • Richardson, Thomas, snr., Superintendent at Webster and Horsfall’s steel works, The Forge, Killamarsh
  • Rippon, Mr. Richard
  • Robinson, Thomas, spring knife mfr.
  • Rotherham, Charles, Esq, Mosbro’ Hall
  • Story, John, spring knife manufacturer
  • Wells, William, manager, Moor Hall Colliery
  • Whitehead, Mrs. Dorothy

Inns and Taverns

  • British Oak, George Booth
  • Crown Inn, Elizabeth Robinson
  • Duke William, Thomas Cooper
  • Fitzwilliam Arms, George Staniforth
  • George and Dragon, Henry Booth
  • Nags Head, Charles Milner
  • Queens Hotel, Joseph Senior

Academies

  • Havenhand, Martha
  • Stenton, Ester
  • Storey, Mary & Eliza

Beerhouses

  • Plant, George
  • Rose, Robert

Blacksmiths

  • Rose, Joseph
  • Rose, William

Butchers

  • Booth, Henry
  • Fox, James
  • Keeton, Henry
  • Rivington, Sarah
  • Staton, George
  • Weevell, John

Coal Owners and Coke Burners

  • * Bunting and Alton
  • Rhodes, Jno., Plumley Colliery; Office, Intake
  • Swallow, Richard and John F., Hill House
  • Wells Brothers

Farmers

  • * Alton, Joseph
  • Bomford, John Thomas, Old Hall
  • Bramhall, Joseph, Shady Hall
  • * Bunting, Thomas
  • Cadman, George (& maltster)
  • Cater, George
  • Cooper, Margaret
  • Fox, James
  • Galley, John
  • Keeton, David
  • Keeton, William
  • Lee, Thomas
  • Lindley, Robert (& maltster)
  • Marsden, George, Camm House
  • Mullins, George
  • Mullins, William
  • Oates, Joshua
  • Riley, John
  • Rose, John
  • Rose, Robert
  • Rose, Thomas
  • Rotherham, Samuel
  • Staniforth, George
  • Story, Thomas
  • Tickhill, William

Joiners (marked + are wheelwrights)

  • + Frost, George
  • + Rose, James
  • Rose, John
  • Rose, Robert
  • Rotherham, Charles
  • Turner, Thomas

Shoemakers

  • Bolsover, Thomas
  • Haywood, John
  • Kirkby, John
  • Kirkby, Thomas
  • Latham, Amos
  • Lee, Henry
  • Storey, William
  • Upson, William

Shopkeepers

  • Buxton, John
  • Cadman, Solomon
  • Drabble, John
  • Frost, George
  • Galley, Susannah (& druggist)
  • Keeton, Mary
  • Milnes, George
  • Riley, John
  • Rose, Joseph
  • Tradewell, Charles
  • Trusswell, James
  • Turner, William
  • Woodward, Eliz.
  • Worrall, Luke (& coal owner)

Sickle and Reaping Hook Mnfrs.

  • Burrows, Thomas
  • Havenhand, James
  • Hutton, Jno. Jermyn Phoenix Forge
  • Keeton, John & Son (Wm. & Edwin), and scythe mkrs
  • Riley, John & Sons
  • Staton, Septimus
  • Turner, William

Stone Masons

  • Grant, Richard (& quarry owner)
  • Grant, William
  • Lockwood, Joseph