kelly 1891

Kelly Directory of Leicestershire 1891, page 576

HARBY is a large village and parish on the borders of Nottinghamshire, on the south side of the Grantham canal, with a station called " Harby and Stathern," which is the junction of the Newark and Melton Mowbray and Melton and Nottingham joint lines of the Great Northern and London and North Western railways, 1 1/4 miles south-east of the village, 8 3/4 north from Melton Mowbray and 14 south-east from Nottingham, in the Eastern division of the county, Framland hundred, Belvoir petty sessional division, Melton Mowbray union and county court district, rural deanery of Framland third portion, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock, presented by the Duke of St. Albans, and 5 bells, two dated 1610, one 1614, one 1701 and the fifth 1887 : the chancel retains an aumbrey and a piscina and there is also a piscina in the south aisle : the font bears the date 1606 : the church was restored and new-roofed in 1870, and further restoration took place during 1874 and 1876 : there are 220 sittings : in the churchyard is an ancient stone cross. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £560, arising from 459 3/4 acres of land (awarded in lieu of tithes at the Inclosure in 1793), with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland G .c.b. and held since 1853 bythe Rev. Manners Octavius Norman b.a. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1847. In 1739 the Rev. John Major left £i0, the interest for the poor of this parish, who also receive £7 13s.4d. yearly from Chester's Charity, of Barkstone; Mrs. Hannah Thompson left ,£10 for the benefit of the Sunday school in 1866 ; Mrs. Orson left £20 ; the Duke of St. Albans gave £30 in 1839 : the interest of the above sums, which are all in Melton Savings Bank, is distributed yearly by the rector and churchwardens. The Duke of Rutland g.c.b. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Duke of Rutland, Messrs. Orson, Whittle, Shipman, Smith and Lamin. The soil is clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are beans, wheat and pasture. The area is 2,800 acres; rateable value, £3,741 ; the population in 1881 was 591.

Sexton, Thomas Hall.

Post, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.—Clifton John Watchorn, receiver. Letters through Melton Mowbray, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. week days only

National School (mixed), erected 1860, to hold 120 children ;
average attendance, 97 ; Alfred Edwards, master

Railway Station, John W. Page, station master

Carrier.—William Starbuck, to Melton Mowbray, tues.; to Nottingham, wed. & sat

Evans Rev. Joshua [curate]
Hall Edmund
Norman Rev. Manners Octavius b.a. Rectory
Thraves Samuel Taylor, Exchange villa

COMMERCIAL.
Baguley George, farmer
Baguley Wm. grazier & coal merchant
Barke Robert, farmer
Brown John, grazier & grocer
Clark George, carpenter
DickmanWm.shopkr. plumber & glazier
Freck James, jun. farmer
Freck Thomas, farmer
Furmidge W. & Co.brewers & maltsters, corn, coal & coke merchants & farmers ; & at Stathern
Furmidge Samuel, grazier
Gregg Thomas, grazier
Hall Thomas, blacksmith
Jackson John, butcher & grazier
Lamin & Shipman, millers (steam & wind) & corn dealers & wharfingers
Lamin Thos. miller (wind) & grazier
Lamin William, grazier
Martin Thomas, joiner, wheelwright & agricultural implement maker
Martin William, baker
Musson Daniel, wheelwright
Musson John, carpenter
Musson Sarah. (Miss), dress maker
Orson Francis, farmer & grazier
Page John W. station master
Pears Charles Eyre, White Hart p. h
Pick Elizabeth (Mrs.), grazier
Rose William, grazier
Shipman Henry, farmer
Starbuck Thomas, chimney sweep
Starbuck Wm. farmer,carrier& cab propr
Stokes James, grazier
Stokes Jane (Miss), shopkeeper
Stokes Otho, plumber & glazier
Stokes Thomas, grazier
Swingler William, farmer, Harby lodge
Watchorn Clifton John, grocer & baker, Post office
Whitaker William, shopkeeper
Whittle John, Nag's Head p.h. grazier & farmer
Whittle John, jun. grazier