Nancy
I apologise if I am a little late in responding but I have just come across your message whilst searching against the name of Thomas
Nisbett. I am currently researching the village of Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, where a Thomas
Nisbett was resident many years. He first appears in the 1851 Census with his wife and family:
Nisbett Thomas Head Married 33
Gardener Scotland Nisbett Dorothy Wife Married 40 Heanor, Derbys.
Nisbett Thomas Son 1 Papplewick
Nisbett
Sophia Niece 9
ScotlandThe 1861 Census reads as follows:
Nisbett Thomas Head Married 44 Fardner (Domestic)
Scotland Nisbett Dorothy Wife Married 49 Heanor, Derbys.
Thomas
Nisbett Son 11 Scholar Papplewick
The 1881 Census contains the following:
Nisbett Thomas Head Married 54
Gardener Scotland Nisbett Dorothy Wife Married 60 Heanor, Derbys.
Thomas
Nisbett was head gardener at Papplewick
Hall, working for the Walter family, and appears to have lived in a cottage in the grounds. Unless he worked for the
Duke of Portland in a junior capacity, coming to Papplewick was something of a come down. Unfortunately, I have no idea where in
Scotland he originated from but his date of birth appears to have been either 1817 or 1818.
The Nisbetts did not die in this parish. A quick look on
www.freebmd.org.uk records the death of a Dorothy
Nesbitt in the second quarter of 1891 in the
Chesterfield registration district (7b 534) aged 80. There is also a Thomas
Nisbett listed in the
Chesterfield district as dying in the third quarter of 1895 (7b 415) aged 82.
Their son, Thomas, moved to the nearby parish of Bulwell, Notts. He can be found on the 1881 Census living at Bulwell
Hall Stables, (adjacent to another large country house) as follows:
Nisbett Thomas Head 31 Married
Gardener Papplewick, Notts
Nisbett Elizabeth Wife 28 Married Ryoxall, Staffordshire
Nisbett Margaret Ann Daughter 7 months Bulwell, Notts.
I was wondering if you managed to locate any information that conclusively ties the above Thomas
Nisbett with the person quoted in your message? As I assume you are related, any information you may have on the Nisbetts whilst at Papplewick would be most welcome.
Colin