Trusley is a small village in south Derbyshire within a
conservation area. As 'Toxenai' it was mentioned in the Domesday Book
as a manor belonging to Henry de Ferrers.
Trusley Village
Many of the buildings in Trusley village date from the 18th century including All Saints Church built for William Coke in 1712.
Oliver De Odingsells purchased the Manor of Trusley from Ralph de Beufey in the reign of King Henry III [1216-72].
In 1418 a De Odingsells co-heiresses married Thomas Coke and from this time the Coke family came to live at Trusley.
The
original homes of the Cokes' have long since vanished, however in 1904
Major General John Talbot coke built a new Trusley Manor. Trusley Derbyshire
In
1948, at the end of the second world war, Trusley Manor was reduced in
size and what remains has been divided into four dwellings.
Coke, of Trusley.
This
family is of considerable antiquity. Hugh Coke married the heiress of
Owen, of Marchington, in Staffordshire, and settled at that place in the
reign of Edward III.: Thomas, his grandson, about the middle of the
fifteenth century settled in Derbyshire, in consequence of his marriage
with one of the coheiresses” of Odingsells, of Trusley. Richard Coke,
the fifth in descent from this Thomas, married the heiress of
Sacheverell, of Nottinghamshire. William Coke, grandson of Richard,
married a coheiress of Beresford, of Alsop. William Coke, great-grandson
of the last-mentioned William, dying without male issue in 1716, the
elder branch became extinct: his daughters and coheiresses married
Edward Wilmot, or the Chaddesden family, and D’Ewes Coke, of Suckley, in
Worcestershire, descended from George Coke, Bishop of Hereford, a
younger brother of Sir Francis Coke, of Trusley, who died in 1639. The
Reyerend Francis Wilmot, Rector of Trusley, and D’Ewes Coke, Esq., of
Brookhillhall, in the Nottinghamshire part of the parish of Pinxton, are
the repre sentatives of this branch.
Daniel Parker Coke, Esq.,
of the College in Derby, descended from the Reverend Thomas Coke, Rector
of Trusley, a younger brother of Robert Coke, Esq., who died in 1713,
is the male representative of the family, being the eleventh in descent
from Thomas Coke, who married the heiress of Odingsells. The mother of
Mr. Coke was heiress of Goodwin; his grandmother, the heiress of Willet,
both of Derby. Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I.,
and younger brother of Sir Francis Coke, of Trusley, settled at
Melbourne in this county. George Lewis Coke, Esq., the last heir male of
this branch, died in 1750; his sister and sole heir married Sir Matthew
Lambe, Bart., father of the present Lord Viscount Melbourne.
Arms of Coke, of Trusley: Gules, three crescents, and a canton.
Crest: The sun in splendor.