Newcombe
Peatfield
Penson
Renshaw
The Renshaw family
- The Saw Mills
The Saw Mill business was established about 1882 by Benjamin Renshaw. In the 1891 census he was living and working in Hawksworth as a carpenter with his wife Eliza. Initially Benjamin Renshaw was a tenant farmer at the Manor Farmhouse on Main Road but when this was sold in 1892, Benjamin bought a plot of arable land called Cottage Close on Main Road. The business was carried on by Benjamin's son and then by his grandson Keith Renshaw.
Keith Renshaw in later life
1st Nov 2013
Keith Renshaw's funeral at Hawksworth Church
Sancto Paulo
Founders of Hawksworth church around 1155
Walter de Sancto Paulo
- the earliest recorded resident of Hawksworth.
- and the likely founder of the Norman church building around 1155
On a parchment stored at Leicestershire Record Office, it is recorded in Latin that Walter de Sancto Paulo gave Alexander de Sancto Paulo of Hawksworth in service as a knight to Jollan de Neville. The document is undated but probably dates from the mid to late 12th century. Often the eldest son was given to knight service so Walter de Sancto Paulo was probably the father of Alexander and farming land in Hawksworth
Simpson
Smyttan
Rev George Hunt Smyttan
1824 to 1870.
Rector of Hawksworth (1851-58), friend of the explorer David Livingstone and writer of the hymn "Forty days and forty nights"
Spence, Barrett & Oliver
The Barrett family were farmers in Hawksworth from the 1400s and they were recorded in the parish registers as churchwardens from the 1500s.
Hannah Barrett of Hawksworth married William Oliver
Catherine Oliver b1871 in Hawksworth married Joseph Spence in 1896 in Hawksworth
1959 Nottm Evening Post article with photo of J & G Spence
To see a video of Geoffrey Spence reminiscing on life in Hawksworth - recorded 2nd Dec 2022