DARWEN MANOR COURT RECORDS At Preston Record Office ref. MBDa 1/- are the Darwen Manor Court Rolls. They are disappointing compared with the Clitheroe Court Rolls. Those inspected contain minor business of the Manor with no reference to the transfer of copyhold land. Abstracts of certain rolls follow:
1671 (Ref MBDa 1/3)
Jurors:
Roger HAYDOCK, Willus DUXBURY, Thomas BARON, Thomas RIDD, Roger WALSH, Willus BOULTON Arthur LOMAX, Roger WHEWELL, Thomas RADLEY, Roger LOMAX, Nathaniel WHEWELL, Ricus ENTWISTLE, Radu WALSH, Ricus CROSS, Ricus KIRKHAM
"The Jurors state the boundary of the Manor to be: beginning at the head of Mearewath where a Withing Tree growes and so downwards as the water runneth to the meeting of the water at Whithingden above same and from there upwards after the Watersyde to a place called Highgate Yate and from there upwards after the Watersyde to a Went at the bottom of Kirkham Croft and from there upwards after the Watersyde to the "Great" at the bottom of a Closs of ground called Longworth Grimehills, and from there upwards as the same leadeth to the end of Duxbury Cowhdy, and from there upwards as the same leadeth to the end of Hoddlesden Moss near unto Whinnbery."
[The key information is that a Duxbury place name existed as early as 1671]
10 May 1768 (Ref MBDa 1/4)
Jurors:
Thomas HAMPSON, Thomas ALMOND, Andrew BURY, Daniel GREGORY, John BURY, John WARD John BRIGGS, James BRIGGS, John LIVESEY, Richard ROTHWELL, John ECCLES, Thomas KAY, Roger ASPINALL
Roger ASPINALL and William BURY sworn as Pindars
2 May 1770 (Ref:MBDa 1/5)
Jurors:
Benjamine BARTON John WADDIKER James ECCLES James BRIGGS Miles ECCLES Richard ELLISON Thomas HAMPSON George JEPSON William BURY James ASPDEN John BRIGGS John WARBURTON Robert LEACH John LIVESEY
Buisness concerns various amercements for tresspass.
DARWEN MANOR COURT ROLLS continued
26 Apl 1771 (Ref MBDa 1/6)
Jurors:
Roger ASPINALL James BRIGGS Andrew BURY Thomas KAY James HAWORTH Thomas HAMPSON George DUXBURY John WATSON Richard ROTHWELL John WADDIKER John WARD John NIGHTINGALE Thomas ALMOND
Officers appointed as listed below for 1773
Saturday 1 May 1773 (Ref MBDa 1/7)
Lords of the Manor : Mr James WATSON and Mr Robert SLACK
Jurors:
Roger ASPINALL John WARBURTON Richard ELLISON George BARON (deleted) James HAWORTH Thomas KAY John BURY Roger DUXBURY George DUXBURY Thomas ALMOND John WOOD Michael SHARROCK William BURY John LIVESEY Jnr
Officers appointed:
Moss Lookers, John ASPINALL, James LIVESEY,
Moor Lookers George JEPSON John ECCLES
Pindars Roger ASPINALL William BURY
House Looker Thomas ALMOND John FISH
Plant Lookers Andrew BURY Ralph ECCLES
Fence Lookers Richard ELLISON Edmund WHEWELL
It is hereby agreed that the road beginning at Cornburrow Fold [Cranberry Fold] and ending at the High Road at Slough Fold belonging to John BRIGGS, Thomas KAY, John WARBURTON, Bernard SHORROCK, William SHORROCK and Moses DUXBURY, being ruinous and dangerous; it is hereby agree that if the different persons above mentioned don't ment their respective parts of the road betwix midsummer next thay are amerced in one guinea each.
1761 Leases of the Manor of Over Darwen (Ref: MBDa 1/33)
This document is a particular of 65 entries relating to the copyhold land:
Item 11:
James HORRIDGE for Duxbury Tenement of 12 Acres 3 Rods 0 Poles lease granted July 1748 for the lives of:
Margaret HORRIDGE age 40, Jennett HORRIDGE 35, Thomas HORRIDGE 23
Item 20:
Thomas FISH for two cottages 0-2-0
lease granted Sep 1741 for the lives of:
Mary ROTHWELL 38, Thomas DUXBURY 28 (ie b.1733)
Item 22 :
William DUXBURY for two houses 15A-2R-0P, lease granted May 1734 for the lives of:
George DUXBURY 52 (ie b.1709), Oliver DUXBURY 49 (ie b.1712)
At Ref MBDa 2/1 are three boxes of unindexed leases of Darwen Manor which the Record Office Staff were reluctant to allow free access to. Of the specific documents examined in box 08/1221/05 were two copies of a lengthy schedule of leases dated 16 July 1765 connected with the will of Sir George WARREN, then Lord of the Manor. Being only four years on from the 1761 particular of leases the information is similar.
The following paragraphs mention DUXBURY:
Thomas DUXBURY, son of William, for land in tenure of Thomas FISH and Mary ROTHWELL by lease of 1741
Duxbury's tenement, 15 acres 2 roods, in tenure of William DUXBURY by virtue of lease 20 May 1734 between William DUXBURY and Edward WARREN, the father of George, for the lives of:
George, Oliver & William DUXBURY; three sons of the said William DUXBURY for their lives, only two now in being, viz George and Oliver
[Wm DUXBURY jnr. died 1758, Wm DUXBURY snr. died 1765]
Also in Box 08/1221/05 is an indenture of the OSBALDESTON family, early Lords of Darwen Manor, of 1625. As, apparently, collateral for a loan, mention is made of rents from named tenants of Darwen Manor. About ten names are given in full together with: "one DUXBURY" later described as "a DUXBURY". While the lack of a forename is disappointing, the document does at least establish an early Darwen presence for DUXBURY.
The box also contained some Over Darwen Manor Court Rolls which should be separately indexed. The contents of the other two boxes have yet to be searched 20 Jly 1991
DUXBURY - ABSTRACT OF RECORDS OF THE MANOR OF OVER DARWEN
(supplied by Pauline Williams from her cousin Tony Foster)
1806 6th April -The Blackburn Mail
Notice of the Sale of Over Darwen includes:
Oliver DUXBURY; a farm and four cottages
MANOR RECORDS MENTION OF NAMES:
1671 William DUXBURY
1773 Roger DUXBURY, William DUXBURY, Moses DUXBURY
1781 Roger DUXBURY Fence Looker George DUXBURY
1782 May & Oct George DUXBURY Roger DUXBURY
1783 Roger DUXBURY George DUXBURY
1784 Roger DUXBURY George DUXBURY
1793 Roger DUXBURY
1794 William DUXBURY for Hillock Oliver DUXBURY
1799 William DUXBURY for Hillock
1807 Oliver DUXBURY
1808 Oliver DUXBURY
1811 Oliver DUXBURY
1813 Oliver DUXBURY
1814 John DUXBURY
1816 Oliver DUXBURY
1817 Oliver DUXBURY
1821 Oliver DUXBURY
1822 Oliver DUXBURY
1826 Oliver DUXBURY
1838 Thomas DUXBURY of Union Street
CALL BOOK
Susanna DUXBURY 1830-1833
MANOR OF OVER DARWEN - PARTICULAR OF SALE OF MANOR
1799 Lot 10 Hillock Estate 50ac 3roods 8perches William DUXBURY tenant at will Rent £25
