ALVASTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Shardlow Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2490 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2721 &AMp; 2722 |
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Church Records
- Marriages at Alvaston, 1614-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Shardlow Registration District.
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Description and Travel.
"ALVASTON, a chapelry in the parish of Derby St. Michael, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch in the county of Derby, 3 miles to the S.E. of Derby. It is situated on the river Derwent, near the Midland railway, and the Derby canal goes through the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £116, in the gift of the parishioners. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here: The principal residence is Alvaston House."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Alvaston by Barbarann Ayars.