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  • Later, the family then seems to have split again, for Thomas's descendants, the Fulchers, held Osmaston and the Codinton estate passed via the two daughters of Engenulph de Codinton into the Dethick family around 1276.

    Demolition could uncover deserted medieval village 2007

  • Later, the family then seems to have split again, for Thomas's descendants, the Fulchers, held Osmaston and the Codinton estate passed via the two daughters of Engenulph de Codinton into the Dethick family around 1276.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • BABINGTON, ANTHONY (1561-1586), English conspirator, son of Henry Babington of Dethick in Derbyshire, and of Mary, daughter of George, Lord Darcy, was born in October 1561, and was brought up secretly a Roman Catholic.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Campion he withdrew to Dethick, and attaining his majority occupied himself for a short time with the management of his estates.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Spencer and Wm. Seager, "a poore paynter, sonne of a base fleminge and spawne of a Jew," with an account of the family of Dethick, or De

    Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 Various

  • The village, built of stone like so many in the North Country, lay far below, and on Sundays the two little girls, dressed in their best tippets and bonnets, used to walk with their father and mother across the meadows to the tiny church at Dethick.

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

  • Joseph Moxon in his "Tutor to Astronomie" (1659) describes a "Dyal upon a solid Ball or Globe, that shall shew the Hour of the day without a gnomon," and says that a "Dyal of this sort was made by Mr. John Leek, and set up on a composite columne at Ladenhill Corner, London, during the mayoralty of Sir John Dethick, Kt.," in 1655.

    The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

  • On the second day, therefore, he rode out (the frost still holding, though the sun was clear and warm), and turned southwards through the village for the Dethick road, towards the place in which he had appointed to meet Anthony.

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • Babingtons had their country house at Dethick and their town house in

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • They were just parting -- Anthony to ride back to Dethick, and Robin over the moors to Matstead, when over a rise in the ground they saw the heads of three horsemen approaching.

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

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