Place:Laughton en le Morthen, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Laughton en le Morthen is a small dormitory village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham lying to the south of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, and its main attraction is the All Saints Church with its tower and spire of 185 feet. The village had a population of 1,241 at the 2011 Census. The parish also includes the hamlets of Carr, Slade Hooton and Brookhouse.

Laughton en le Morthen was an ancient parish in the Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake and became a civil parish from 1866 until 1923. From 1894 until 1923 it was part of the Rotherham Rural District. In 1923 the parish was abolished and it was absorbed into the parish of Thurcroft. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time) Laughton en le Morthen may have been reinstated as a civil parish after 1974.

The townships of Letwell, Gildingwells, and St. John's with Throapham all became civil parishes within Kiveton Park Rural District and each is covered separately in WeRelate.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Laughton en le Morthen from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"LAUGHTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN, a village and a township in Rotherham [registration] district, and a parish partly also in Worksop [registration] district, and all in the [[West Riding of] Yorkshire. The village stands on a rising ground, 4¼ miles N by E of Kiveton Park [railway station], and 7 SE of Rotherham; suffered much in the wars of the Roses; is irregularly built; and has a post office, of the name of Laughton, under Rotherham.

"The township comprises 3,545 acres. Real property: £5,568. Population: 736. Houses: 163.

"The parish contains also the townships of Letwell, Gildingwells, and St. John Throapham. Acres: 6,255. Population: 1,033. Houses: 220.

"The manor of Laughton belongs to A. F. B. St. Leger, Esq.; and that of Letwell to Sir Thomas W. White, Bart. Thurcroft Hall is the seat of F. Young, Esq. There is a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of St. John Throapham, in the diocese of York. Value: £400. Patron: the Archbishop of York. The parish church is chiefly early English; has a door of a previous edifice, either Saxon or early Norman; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire 185 feet high. The church of St. John Throapham is ancient. Letwell also has a church; and is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to Firbeck. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and charities £11."

History

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Laughton-en-le-Morthen. is a very long history of this village.

Research Tips

• Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service includes all places in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham.

Address: Clifton Park Museum, Clifton Lane, Rotherham, South Yorkshire S65 2AA

Telephone: +44(0)1709 336632

Email: archives@rotherham.gov.uk

• British History Online (Victoria County Histories) do not cover the West Riding of Yorkshire
• GENUKI has a page on all three ridings of Yorkshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical parishes in the county. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. The list is based on a gazetteer dated 1835 and there may have been a number of alterations to the parish setup since then. However, it is worthwhile information for the pre civil registration era. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and the submitter is very firm about his copyright. This should not stop anyone from reading the material.
• The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time, Yorkshire West Riding, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72.

• Map of the West Riding divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Map of West Riding divisions in 1917 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. In other counties, the map for 1900 has been used, but it is not coming up in Vision of Britain's list.
• Map of West Riding divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time

• The above three maps indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
• Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.
• In March 2018 Ancestry announced that its file entitled "Yorkshire, England: Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1873" has been expanded to include another 94 parishes (across the three ridings) and expected it to be expanded further during the year. The entries are taken from previously printed parish registers.