BOULTON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• This place was a chapelry of St. Peter's Church in Derby.
  
  
• The chapel is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  
  
• The chapel was built around 1090.
  
  
• The chapel is a small Norman structure.
  
  
• The chapel was extended by 12 feet in 1840 and the rest of the fabric of the building was thoroughly repaired.
  
  
• The chapel was again restored in 1871.
  
  
• The chapel seats 420.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1614, but are partly included in Alvaston.
  
  
• Marriages at Boulton, 1756-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has "Boulton marriages, 1756 to 1812" on microfilm, as well as the Bishop's Transcripts for 1662 - 1880.
  
  
• The chapel is in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here before 1891.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"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]

Today the parish is part of the conurbation of Derby city.

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Directories

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

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History

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1802.
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has "Boulton Poor law records, 1720-1795" on microfilm.

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