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DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 28 WINTER 1992 ISSN 0965-8912 The Origin of local Surnames Following the Annual General Meeting of the Dore Village Society held on 7th October, 1992, Professor David Hey of the University of Sheffield gave a most interesting talk. A research class of the Division of Continuing Education, under the guidance of David Hey, had been meeting to study local surnames - how they arose, how they spread and their present distribution. Every area had distinctive surnames, Sheffield being no exception - Broomhead, Crapper, Crookes, Elshaw, Furness, Hattersley, Scargill for example. Surmanes arose for a variety of reasons, most commonly occupational - Smith, Miller, nicknames - White, Gray, from father's name - Johnson, Williamson and topographical - Hill, Brook and Green. Many names came from a very localised area such as a farm or small hamlet. It usually meant that this was the place of origin and did not indicate any high position in the locality e.g. Biltcliffe - from Upper and Lower Bilerscliffe Farms near Penistone, Stainforth - from Stoney Ford near Wincobank. The early information had been gained Stannington Brass Band entertains the crowds at Dare Show 92 from the poll tax returns of 1379. Other sources were the list of Cutlers of 1614 and the register of apprentices and freemen from 1624 to 1814. Hearth tax returns, information DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY In Rememberance on births and deaths and the census returns SPECIAL GENERAL index for Sheffield 1841 had been invaluable On November 8th we again remembered sources. The telephone directory gives useful MEETING those who died in the service of their information on the present distribution of country. 8.00pm - Wednesday 2nd December 1992 names. It is estimated that 87% of households The names of those from Dore who died Old Village School now possess a telephone. in the 1914-18 war are recorded on the war Many fascinating examples of detective Adoption of a new constitution memorial and on the lych gate of the church. work were given and distribution examined. Unfortunately there is no similiar recognition In answer to one of the many questions, Please note that this meeting is open to any of those who died in the Second World War David Hey told the audience that surnames paid up members of the Society, including and subsequent conflicts. were first introduced in this country in 11th life members. The Vicar, David Williams has been and 12th Century for the aristocracy. given the following names of those who died Hereditary surnames becoming widespread during the second world war but is unsure between the 13th and 15th Centuries. whether this is an accurate and comprhensive A book - The origins of One Hundred Christmas greetings list:- Sheffield Surnames - edited by David Hey, is Walker Angus RAF available from the Division of Adult The Dore Village Society Committee Cyril Marshall RN Continuing Education, The University of would like to take this opportunity to send Rodney Charles RAF Sheffield. Season's Greetings to all the readers of T. Kenneth Hutt Dore to Door, wherever you are. NewsomeRAF News in brief We would like to thank all those who Dorothy Joyce Stone WRENS have actively supported the Society during Minnie Fisher WAAFS Independent Dore - achieved it's the year by providing advice, helping out or Lt. Ronald Gregory York/Lancs and moment of news fame in mid October during through joining and attending events. Finally Green Howards the flurry of press coverage around the a special thank you from the from the Dore S. Hopperton Government's proposals to close half the to Door editorial team to those who give up Philip Homer RM mines in the country. In a column their time to deliver Dore to Door, and the As an historical record, the Village commenting on the views of the Rev David advertisers without whose financial support Society would welcome any information Williams and worshippers at Christ Church, the magazine simply could not survive. relating to the above or any additional the Independent described Dore as "a silvan- Given what, for everyone, has been a names. Useful data would be:- Age, and-Saab village beneath the moors, forming financially difficult year, I'm sure readers approximate, Address, Rank, Regiment. part of Sheffield Hallam, one of the three will agree they deserve our support in turn. If you can help please contact- most middle-class constituencies in Britain". Lets hope 1993 proves to be a happy and David Williams - 363335 So now you know! more prosperous year. Liz Bownes - 352107 INSIDE Door Moor House • Planning Matters • Memories of Dore • AGM • Limb Lane Community Home South East View of Dore Chapel 1785 1.1 11 Dore Chapel 7he ~tley What's in a name? The above picture, which is reproduced Watching progress on Gleeson's by the kind permission of the vicar, David Coffee Shoppe development off Totley Brook Road, you Williams, is something of an enigma. It does might wonder how the name for the new cul- not relate to the better known drawing of the de-sac, Kings Coppice, was chosen. Chapel, dated 1820, in that the bell tower SPECIALITY FOODS - including A lot of care and effort is in fact given to protrudes above the roof line and there is an Cottage Delight, Pollards Coffee the naming of new roads, a duty falling to additional window in the Southern elevation. Farmhouse Biscuits, Barbara the City's appropriately titled "Street However the clarity of the drawing offers Battersby's Bakehouse. Naming Officer"- currently Mike Haverty of some insight into the general appearance of the Highways Dept. It is his task to the chapel. CHRISTMAS HAMPERS - specially implement the Council's policy of adopting The Chapel stood at the junction of High selected at affordable prices, names which reflect the history of the area Street and Savage Lane, approximately choice of three, bumper, pick and concerned wherever possible. This he does where the Hare and Hounds car park is now mix or mini-hampers. through a process of researching the local situated. The old drawing of the Chapel history of the area, using the sites of old shows stocks sited within the chapel yard on REFRESHMENTS - a variety of buildings and field names as a source. The the eastern side. beverages and a small menu. names of past residents who are associated From notes made in Cox's "Churches of The ideal stop off. with the area might also be a possibility, Derbyshire", the Reverend W.R. Gibson although it is very rare to name a street after made the assumption in his "History of a living person. Dore", that the chapel was standing in the Call in and try our speciality foods Once names begin to suggest themselves, pre reformation times ie. 1530 A.D. and ask about our outside catering there is then the question of avoiding The hamlets of Dore and Totley were service. duplicating names within the city, even with originally in the ecclesiastical parish of existing street names that might sound the Dronfield. In 1650 a Parliamentary 51 BASLOW ROAD TOTLEY same. Finally suggestions drawn up are Commission recommended the uniting of SHEFFIELD S17 4DL submitted, along with any put forward by the Dore, Totley and Beauchief into a single TELEPHONE367560 developer, to the council's Planning and parish for ecclesiastical purposes. Economic Development Programme The tithe of Dore (the tenth part of the Committee, before ratification by the full annual proceeds of land) was left to support Council. It is then a matter of allocating a the Chapel and Curate of Dore by Cornelius Quem Quest post code and passing an order for the road Clarke Esq of Norton in 1683. Holmesfield signs to be made, at the developers expense, and Dore remained Chapels of ease to the Following the article on Querns in the last to the city's Director of Works. main church at Dronfield. Baptisms could be edition, several readers have asked where Although the process does not include carried out locally but burials and marriages examples can be seen. Weston Park Museum specific provision for local consultation, the had to be solemnized at the Parish Church. has a number in their Human History Highways Department are always interested A writ of 1819 stated that, "The chapel at Section, Gallery 2. There are particularly in contributions from local residents. In some Dore is a very ancient and low mean good examples of a Celtic Beehive shaped cases they also get requests to change building with a rotten roof, and requires a quern and a Roman Flat Disc quern, the existing names, something which has to go raising of the side walls to support a latter showing corn being ground. There is through the same process but would only be necessary new roof, with new windows and also a large display showing the various likely to result in a change if there were a an addition to be made for the Communion stages of quern manufacture from rough considerable majority of local residents in Table". In 1823 a visit from the archdeacon stone as made at Wharncliffe, north of favour. confirmed that the building was cracking, Sheffield, until AD 200. The name As for Kings Coppice, in the end this was had bulging walls and three wooden pillars, Wharncliffe means literally "quem cliff'. an amalgam of the developers idea to plant which supported the roof were decaying and Local discoveries are few and far trees onthe site, it's location next to King let in water. between. However, Dr Ryan of Woodbine Ecgberts School and the areas association The old chapel was pulled down in 1828 Cottages Vicarage Lane has what appears to with that same Saxon king.
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