ALLESTREE, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2506 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2741 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Edmund.
- Portions of the church date back to the 12th century.
- Much of the church was rebuilt in 1865-66.
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Church Records
- Marriages at Allestree, 1595-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's
database of scanned images of
Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- We have a pop-up window of
Allestree burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1821.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"ALLESTREY is a small parish, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, about two miles N. from Derby. The parish forms part of the Duchy of Lancaster, and is within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas, for the recovery of debts under 40s., held at Tutbury every third Tuesday. The places of worship are the parish church and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists: the former, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, is an edifice of some antiquity, with a square tower; and several monuments of the Mundy family embellish the interior of the church. The living is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of J. Mundy, esq. The parish contained in 1821, 361 inhabitants, and, in 1831, 501."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish is currently a part of the conurbation of Derby city. Allestree village centre was made a Conservation Area in 1991 to preserve some of the older buildings and the "look" of the village.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Allestree entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Allestree from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- There are photographs with history notes at Derby Photos.
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Military Records
- For a photograph of the Allestree War Memorial in the churchyard and the names on the monument, see the Roll of Honour site.
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
The "Parish Chest" for Allestree contains:
- Settlement Certificates 1728 - 1822:
- Removal Orders 1779 - 1818:
- Filiation Orders1747 - 1834:
- Bastardy Bonds 1764 - 1792:
- Apprenticeships 1832 - 1848.
All of the above are on microfilm at the Derbyshire Record Office. Please note that a prior appointment is necessary to book a microfilm reader. My grateful thanks to Janet Kirk for this information.