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BOULTON, Derbyshire

"BOULTON, a chapelry in the parish of Derby St. Peter, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, in the county of Derby, 3 miles to the S.E. of Derby. The Midland railway and the Derby canal pass near it. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £120, in the patronage of the landholders. The church is old, and partly in the Norman style."

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

Church History

• John Blaylock has provided a very comprehensive History of the Parish Church of Boulton by Derby. This page also has links to other more general, useful information he provides, such as Definitions of Words and Phrases used in the history pages, a Timeline of National Events, and a history of the Mission Church at Crewton (formerly known as Newton).

Church Records

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Boulton, 1756-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 1).

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Alvaston and Boulton by Ann Andrews. Added 26 Jan 2007.

History

• A History of Boulton Parish - compiled from T Bulmer & Co.'s 1895 History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire by John Blaylock.
  Note: this History also has a reference to the village of Newton within Boulton parish, since been renamed to Crewton.

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Boulton by Barbarann Ayars.

Names, Personal

• Rate Books for the Parish of Boulton by Derby, transcribed by John Blaylock - years available are 1849, 1853 and 1856

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