Barton Blount

The nearby Etwall Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Chad.
   
• The date of construction is unreported, but the building is classed as an Ancient Monument.
   
• Becasue of its small size, Saint Chad's is usually refered to as a chapel and not a church.
   
• The chapel was rebuilt in 1714.
   
• Saint Chad's Chapel is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• The chapel was declared redundant in 1976.
   
• The church seats only 60.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558 for all entries.
   
• The Family History Library has the parish register on microfilm for 1766 through 1973 and the Bishop's Transcript for 1762 through 1853.
   
• Also check Dusty Docs for a transcript of the parish register.
   
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• We also have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register marriages in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   

"BARTON-BLOUNT, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 9 miles to the W. of Derby, its post town. During the civil war in the reign of Charles I. the manor-house was garrisoned for the parliament, and a skirmish took place in the neighbourhood between these forces and the royal troops from Tutbury Castle. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £69, in the patronage of F. Bradshaw, Esq., whose seat is Barton Hall. The parish is in the honour of Tutbury, and Duchy of Lancaster."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

There is a caravan park near the village. The Medieval village site is listed as an ancient monument.

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• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Barton Blount entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Barton Blount to another place.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK208347 (Lat/Lon: 52.909331, -1.692164), Barton Blount which are provided by:

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• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
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• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sudbury petty session hearings.
   
• There is a single Bartin Blount Bastardy Paper held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Bartin Blount" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.