BRETBY, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wystan.
  
  
• The church was entirely rebuilt in 1878.
  
  
• The church seats 130.
  
  
• There is a photogrph of St. Wystan's Church at Geograph.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1766 (and appears to be only baptisms).
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"BRETBY, or Bradby, is a hamlet, in the parish of Repton, about a mile and a half from that village. Bretby Castle, the seat of the Earl of Chesterfield, is here; the scenery around which is very beautiful. The population returns for Bretby include those for MELTON [Ed: a.k.a. Milton] hamlet, together amounting to 325 persons."

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

There is a more current description of Bretby at Derbyshire UK.

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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