| Description | A well-produced, detailed coloured plan showing 15 plots of land owned by George Whysall on the turnpike road [later Market Street], total quantity 19 acres, 0 roods, 32 perches. Also showing a chapel on the site of the town hall built 1867.
Scale: 1 chain to 1/4 mile
Surveyor: Mr Murphy, Civil Engineer |
| Administrative History | Text pasted onto back of frame at time of purchase:
George Whysall & James Murphy
This survey and plan are the work of James Murphy who was a well-to-do Civil Engineer, an Irishman and a Roman Catholic son of Gabriel Murphy who was a builder at Chepstow, Monmouth. James Murphy was the engineer in charges of construction of the original Midland Railway Line from Trent Junction to Loughborough and the south.
He met Maria Burton daughter of Philip Burton ([?]Warsinger and Boat Owner) and Maria (nee Whysall) his wife, of Shardlow, Derbys, while on the railway construction. Philip Burton married Maria Whysall at Pentrich Derbys on 21 March 1814. James Murphy and Maria were married at St Philip's Church Birmingham on Feb 6 1840.
Maria Murphy's mother Maria Burton was sister to George Whysall of Heanor Derbys. He was a landowner, farmer and maltster at Heanor. He had a carriers wagon which went to the George & Dragon Inn, Chapel Bar, Nottingham, on market days Wednesday and Saturday.
George Whysall was born 11 Sept 1789 and died 13th June 1877 aged 87. He married Ann Watt on 29 October 1822 who died 23 Dec 1865 aged 66. She was born Jan'y 9, 1798 the daughter of James Watt who died 15 Oct 1820 aged 78.
They lived at the house on the western side of the bridle road to the Newland across from the King of Prussia Inn in the Old Market Place at Heanor. The malt rooms were close by. The plan covers an area from the Old Market Square down Market St. 15 Red Lion Sq, The site of the present NatWest'er Bank (next to the Chapel) and Fletcher, Whysall and Gladstone Streets and the Langley Mill to Ripley branch railway line.
7. May. 1976. George F. Turton, 121 Kimberley Road, Nuthall, Nottingham
George Frederick Turton died 1979 (Source: UK Civil Registration Death Index, Apr 1979, Basford, Vol. 8, p. 0082) |
| Custodial History | These records were purchased by Derbyshire Record Office from Mellors and Kirk of Nottingham, auctioneers in July 2026. |