Throapham
History
This hamlet is situated only half a mile from Laughton-en-le-Morthen.
St. John the Baptist - this ancient Norman church was formerley the parish church for Throapham, Letwell and Gildingwells. Its Norman story is told by the doorway, with a shaft on each side. The nave arcades are 13th century and the tower and the clerestory 15th. The font dates from about 1400. A brass portrait of a knight in armour is of John Mauleverer , who died three centuries ago. An interesting stone coffin with a coped lid of mediaeval times is carved in relief with a mass of trailing foliage about a cross. Fragments of stones built into the ancient porch show a cross and shears and a battered head in a quatrefoil. It was partly rebult in 1709 and restored in 1861.
Throapham, described in 1822 as a township, in the parish of St. John's, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6.5 miles from Tickhill, 7.5 miles from Worksop, and 8 miles from Rotherham. Population including St. John's, 50, which being united, form a township.Godfrey Pearson , was a grocer & carrier to Sheffield & Retford. John Pigot,Robert Watson,Robert Wood and Richard Wright were farmers.
Farming in Throapham in 1853: Thomas Harrison, John Hibberd, George Howson, Godfrey Pearson, Ann Piggott, Mary Piggott, William Rodgers and A. Billam.
In 1858 Saint John's was a parish, in the township of Throapham. Rotherham is its post town. It includes the hamlets of Gildingwells, Letwell, and Throapham. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, in the diocese of York. The church, is dedicated to St. John
In 1861 Throapham contained 1080 acres of land, and the population was 75 of whom 30 were males. The principal owners were: A. F. B. St. Leger, Mrs. Miles, Chas Wright and Alex Rotherham, who lived at Throapham Manor. A Mrs. Howson lived at Wheat House
A Roman coin hoard consisting of from 1500 to 2000 small brass, billon and silver-washed, of the third century was found in 1864 while ploughing a field called The Leys adjoining the road from St. John's to Dinnington. The coins were in two vases of brownish-red earthenware and lay in a cavity which was roughly lined with stones. The field lay on the estate of Mrs. Miles of Firbeck Hall who received about a thousand of the coins, which unfortunately became mixed with a large general collection of coins she subsequently amassed. This collection later became the property of her heir, the Rev. Henry Gladwyn Jebb, who also kept them at Firbeck Hall. As far as could be determined, however, the earliest coins found were of Gallienus, and others represented were Victorinus, Tetricus Sen., Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus and Aurelian. 18 coins from this hoard are now in Rotherham Museum
In 1869 Samuel Skinner was living at The Manor, he was a Colliery Owner and farmer. Others farming were Henry Salmon, Richard Nicholson, Joseph Child, William Bradbury, Joseph Barnard and John Baggaley. The population in 1871 was 67 people living in 13 houses.
The principal landowners in 1881 were Samuel Skinner, Col, St. Leger and Charles Wright, Esq. There was 1062 acres of land, rateable value, £1275 10s. 4d. The Parish Clerk was Thomas Crofts. Farming in the village were: Samuel Skinner, Joseph Barnard, Joseph Child at Lingodell, Richard Nicholson and William May Salmon.
In 1891 The Boundaries Act was reviewed and Throapham along with Dinnington and surrounding areas became part of the Yorkshire section of the Worksop Union.
Samuel Carr Skinner of Throapham Manor, was married to Florence. He owned land in Clowne, Bolsover in 1898. He was Chairman of Skinner and Holford, Sheffield who owned Waleswood Colliery and Coking Plant and Beighton Collieries; his partner was James Holford of Aston, also a farmer. He was a member of the Rother Valley Conservative Association.
He owned a racehorse ' Star of Throapham'.
Samuel Carr Skinner died on February, 20th 1941 aged 65 years.
In 1949, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Ellis were living at Throapham House.
In 1985 the Church Commissioners declared the Church of St. John the Baptist redundant under the Pastoral Act of 1983. Sheffield Archives hold Throapham St John Parish Records from 1547-1985, Reference:PR 115/1-12.
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See also Throapham Marriages 1711-1811
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