BRAILSFORD, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Alcock, Stanley - John Alcock and his Family. Derry & Sons Limited, Nottingham, 1948.

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Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was partially restored in 1862.
  
  
• Restoration was completed in 1886 when the gallery was removed and the church reseated.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  
  
• We have been advised (in 2012) that many of the churchyard graves are unmarked.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1647.
  
  
• Marriages at Brailsford, 1653-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1821.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1845.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"BRAILSFORD is rather a considerable village, in the parish of its name, and hundred of Appletree; situate on the main road between Derby and Ashbourn, equidistant from each place. Coaches to different parts of the kingdom are continually passing through here, and the support of the village is chiefly derived from that circumstance - there being no manufactures, nor any extensive trade existing here. The places of worship are the parish church, and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists; the former, which is situate, about half a mile from the village, is dedicated to All-Saints, and the living is a rectory, in the patronage of Earl Ferrers. The parish (which has no dependent township) contained, in 1821, 724 inhabitants, & in 1831, 780."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Brailsford 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 Brailsford from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• This place was a Roman settlement.
  
  
• For centuries, most of the parish was pasturage.
  

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial inside All Saints Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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