| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Manor of Dethick |
| Place | Ashover |
| Epithet | Manor |
| History | During the reign of King Henry III Dethick belonged to a family that took its name from the place. The last two male members of the Dethick family, Robert and his son Thomas, are said to have been killed at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, and their heiress, Isobel, married Thomas Babington. The manor remained in the Babington until the late 16th century. Thomas Babington had granted the manor to his brother, George, before his involvement in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth I and execution in 1586, but it did not remain long in George’s possession, as he sold it in 1590 to Ralph Blackwall. In 1636 it was sold by Wendesley Blackwall to Nathaniel Hallowes (two-thirds) and Robert Walker (one third). Walker’s moiety was divided into several shares, but various of them were later purchased by the Hallowes family. It remained with the Hallowes family until 1895, when Major Thomas Richard Brabazon sold it to John Bertram Marsden-Smedley, who was still said to be lord of the manor in 1941. |
| Notes | See British Library, Wolley Manuscripts Add MS 6670 f.267, for a survey of the demenses 1585-1585 |
| Source | Magna Britannia: Volume 5: Derbyshire by Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) pp. 20-21
The History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire by T. Bulmer (1895) p. 356-357
Assorted trade directories, 1895-1941
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| Authorised Form of Name | Ashover; Manor of Dethick; Manor |
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