| Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811 |
| The parishes and chapelries as they were nearly 200 years ago. Extracts from an early Derbyshire history |
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Notes on the Text
From : 'History of Derbyshire' by David Peter Davies |
- Although towns, villages and hamlets are given under each deanery
in the original source, here they are listed alphabetically to
make things a little easier to find.
- Additional notes and comments within the main text [e.g.
dates] are in italics and enclosed in square brackets. Following an update in Feb 2009 most comments are now at the bottom of each page, with a hyperlink down to the section the comment is in. Otherwise
the text is as it is in the book, so you may just find that some buildings
mentioned have disappeared in the intervening centuries.
- When the information given by Davies is incomplete - some places are missed out, for example - additional
information has been taken from: "Topographical and Historical
Account of Derbyshire" by Rev Daniel Lysons and Samuel
Lysons Esq. pub 1817 (London). Where this is the case, it is noted
at the bottom of the page.
- The dates
for the reigns of the Kings and Queens have been taken from 'The
Royal Line of Succession' by Patrick W. Montague-Smith, Editor
of Debrett's Peerage, pub. Pitkin Pictorials Ltd. (1968)
- All place names are spelt as found - this may be different from
the accepted modern day spelling. It should also be noted that
many villages expanded considerably after this book was written
- what were then very small communities may now be quite large
towns.
- All places listed were located within the county in 1811; later
boundary changes may mean some towns and villages, e.g. Stapenhill,
are no longer within Derbyshire. In 1811 some communities had
the county boundary running right through the middle. An example
of this was Packington, Deanery of Repington, where the church
was in Leicestershire and the houses were in Derbyshire. Please
note that the place called West Derby is not in Derbyshire at all; it is part of
Liverpool in Lancashire.
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- 'Domesday' was a survey of lands in England, made by order
of King William the Conqueror, in 1086. The Norman Conquest
of England took place in the year 1066. Unless different
in the book's text, Domesday names appear in italics throughout.
- Money - £ s d : before decimalization took place, English
money was divided into pounds, shillings and pence, or LSD
as it was sometimes referred to. There were 12 pennies to
the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. Pence were divided
into the even smaller units of farthing (d), ha'penny (d)
and three farthings (d).
- Please check all quotations against the original source
before reproduction.
- Although I'm unable to provide any additional material
from the book I would welcome comments and would like to
be notified of any obvious omissions.
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| NOTE:
Please do NOT send general genealogical queries about
this material to Ann, as it is very unlikely that she
will be able to answer them. This may seem impolite and
unhelpful to you, but there are much better places for
on line help with individual surnames. Do not, therefore,
expect any reply to such queries. |
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