PIGOT AND CO’S NATIONAL COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY
1842
(J PIGOT AND CO.)
Whittington was included in Staveley’s entry in this edition, they were both in the
Hundred of Scarsdale
WHITTINGTON – is a small parish in the same Hundred as Staveley about 3 ½ miles west from Staveley and 2 ½ miles north of Chesterfield. The village is one to which some note is attached, as having been the place where the Earl (afterwards Duke) of Devonshire, the Earl of Derby (afterwards Duke of Leeds) Lord Delamere and Mr John Darcy, eldest son of the Earl of Holderness assembled to concert measures for effecting the revolution of 1688. A jubilee or centenary of the great event, took place here in 1788. On Whittington Moor there are several extensive manufactories for stoneware, in which many of the inhabitants find employment. The parish church of St Bartholomew is a very ancient building, the living is a rectory in the patronage in the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The Rev ………Gordon is the incumbent, and the Rev R Robinson is the present curate. The Free school here was founded in 1674, by Peter Webster, and endowed by him with lands which, together with subsequent bequests, produce an annual income of about £32 10s for which 20 boys and 10 girls receive instruction. The parish contained in 1831 740 inhabitants and at the last census, 1841, 750.
| SURNAME | GIVEN NAME | TITLE | PLACE/PARISH | |
| GENTRY AND CLERGY | ||||
| Ardron | Edward | Mr | Whittington | |
| Dixon | Henry | Esq | Whittington | |
| Green | Eliz | Mrs | Whittington House | |
| Jenkinson | George | Mr | Whittington | |
| Marr | George | Esq | Whittington | |
| Marr | George Jun | Mr | Whittington | |
| May | Charles Hugh | Esq | Whittington | |
| Robinson | Robert | Rev | Whittington | |
| Smith | Robert Edmund Moore | Esq | Whittington | |
| Sorby | Elizabeth | Mrs | Whittington Hall | |
| Steade | Charles | Capt | Whittington | |
| ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS | ||||
| Roe | Wm | Master | Free School Whittington | |
| Lamb | Sara | Whittington (Boarding) | ||
| Shacklock | Ruth | Whittington | ||
| BLACKMITHS | ||||
| Littlewood | John | Whittington | ||
| Thorp | George | Whittington | ||
| BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS | ||||
| Cartwright | Thomas | Whittington | ||
| Hancock | George | Whittington | ||
| Shephard | Henry | Whittington | ||
| Siddall | James | Whittington | ||
| Widdowson | George | Whittington | ||
| BUTCHERS | ||||
| Belfit | William | Whittington | ||
| Bower | George | Whittington | ||
| GROCERS AND DEALERS IN SUNDRIES | ||||
| Cooke | Richard | Whittington | ||
| Gill | John | Whittington | ||
| Green | William | Whittington | ||
| Thorpe | George | Whittington | ||
| Thorpe | John | Whittington | ||
| Widdowson | Frances | Whittington | ||
| HOOP MAKERS | ||||
| Green | Henry | Whittington | ||
| Green | William | Whittington | ||
| MILLERS | ||||
| Cundy | John | Whittington | ||
| PLUMBERS AND GLAZIERS | ||||
| Shepley | James | Whittington | ||
| SCYTHE MAKERS | ||||
| Hancock | George | Whittington | ||
| STONE MASONS | ||||
| Mettam | Thomas and Robert | Whittington | ||
| Ward | Samuel | Whittington | ||
| TAILORS | ||||
| Bargh | Thomas | Whittington | ||
| Beswick | George | Whittington | ||
| Shacklock | Francis | Whittington | ||
| Smith | John | Whittington | ||
| Staton | John | Whittington | ||
| Webster | Elijah | Whittington | ||
| TAVERNS AND PUBLIC HOUSES | ||||
| Cooke | John | Bulls Head | Whittington | |
| Woodhouse | John | Cock and Magpie | Whittington | |
| Bargh | Joshua | Sheepbridge Inn | Whittington | |
| Bower | George | Square and Compass | Whittington | |
| Littlewood | John | White Horse | Whittington | |
| RETAILERS OF BEER | ||||
| Hoult | George | Whittington | ||
| WHEELWRIGHTS | ||||
| Cooke | John | Whittington | ||
| Siddall | John | Whittington | ||
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||||
| Green | Wm | Sickle shaft maker | Whittington | |
| Moody | John | Mole catcher | Whittington | |
| Moody | Richard | Mole catcher to the Duke of Devonshire | Whittington | |
| Naylor | John | Millwright | Whittington | |
| Shacklock | Harriet and Charlotte | Dressmakers | Whittington |
