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BREASTON, Derbyshire

"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]

Church Records

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Breaston, 1719-1810 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 1).

Directories

• Directory for Ilkeston and Heanor, with the villages of Breason, Draycott, Risley, Shipley, Sandiacre, West Hallam and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Breaston St. Michael (with Risley) by Ann Andrews. Added 1 Mar 2007.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Breaston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Population

• Census Statistics - the population figures for the village of Breaston are as follows:-

  1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891
  379	457	579	642	712	680	709	720	806	882
  1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991
  982	1260	1356	2024	3376	3626	4300	5485	4502

  The above census statistics have been contributed by Joseph Platt.

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