30 LIST OF THE INHABITANTS OF MELBOURNE, 1695. 
separate households, who are all described as labourers, except 
two, one of whom was a farmer and the other a weaver. One of 
these labourers, Josiah, was the head of the family ; whilst the 
farmer was his uncle, and the weaver was his granduncle. Josiah’s 
father had died a few months before; but his stepmother had 
some provision, for she kept a maid. Josiah’s grandson, Hugh 
Cantrell (son of Joseph, who is mentioned in this list) married, in 
1768, Mary Boultbee, the only child of the Vicar of Castle 
Donington ; and their grandson, Joseph Thomas Cantrell, was 
the County Court judge in Derbyshire in 1852, and married a 
granddaughter of Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York. 
The Berrisfords were a family of the same kind, and were 
distributed in six separate households of very unequal condition. 
John Berrisford, jun., was the leading mercer in the town, who 
kept a man and a maid; Thomas was a glover, and Cornelius 
was a flax-dresser ; whilst Mary was a widow, with two daughters, 
receiving alms ; and John was a labourer, who lived with his wife 
and his grand child, and kept a maid. The Berrisfords, or, as 
they afterwards spelt their name, Beresfords, continued to be free- 
holders in the parish of Melbourne until 1814. It can scarcely be 
doubted that they sprung from the same stock as the noble 
family in Ireland, which is now represented by the Marquess of 
Waterford, but had not in 1695 yet risen to the peerage, for the 
ancestor of the Irish Beresfords was a native of Derbyshire. 
Many additions might be made to these notes ; but enough has 
been said to show how much could be gleamed from this interest- 
ing record by those who are better qualified by local knowledge 
to read between the lines. 
