Derbyshire ^rch^ological 



ATURAL ]|[lSTORY |0CIETY. 



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By the Rev. Charles Kerry. 



HE name " Mackworth " signifies the estate or manor of 

 " Macca ;" probably one of the leaders of the ancient 

 Norsemen. — {Favell Edmunds.) At the time of the 

 Norman survey one "Colle" appears to have held 

 this manor, with Kniveton and AUestree, under Gozelin, at a 

 rental of ids. 8d., and Gozelin held it under Earl Siward, who, if 

 not the owner, held it under Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. 

 Whether the descendants of Colle or Gozelin were identical with 

 the family which afterwards were known as " de Mackworth," 

 there is nothing unfortunately to show, but it is not improbable, 

 for the rank of the Mackworths in after times appears to have 

 corresponded with that of the sub-tenants of Domesday, the 

 Mackworths holding their lands under the chief lord of the fee, 

 whose residence was at Markeaton. 



Henry de Mackworth occurs in the Pipe Rolls of 1254, and 

 Edith, daughter of Emma de Mackworth, in the same records in 

 1272. In 1391 William de Mackworth was appointed rector of 



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