BREASTON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• For centuries, this place was a Chapelry of Sawley, and the chapel may have been here since 1250.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
  
  
• This church was built in 1650.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1840 and again in 1871.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  
  
• There is a photograph of St. Michael's Church at Panaramio.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1750.
  
  
• Marriages at Breaston, 1719-1810 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"BREASON is a village and township, in the parish of Sawley, nearly eight miles E.S.E. from Derby. The chapel here, under the establishment, is dedicated to St. Michael, and the living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Risley, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the prebendary of Sawley, in the cathedral church of Lichfield. The township contained, at the last census, 642 inhabitants."

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

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Directories

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

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