CALKE (or CAULK), Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Ashby-de-la-Zouch sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District up thru 1901.
- Starting in 1911, the parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2269 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3247 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
- The church was originally part of the Norman priory at Calke, built before 1161.
- The church was rebuilt in 1826.
- The church is a grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- There is a photograph of the church at Flickr.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1699.
- Dusty Docs has Calke register baptisms and marriages from 1699 through 1812.
- The London Family History Centre has the Calke register from 1699 through 1996 on microfilm.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ashby-de-la-Zouch sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District up thru 1901.
- Starting in 1911, the parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"CAULK is a very small parish, in the same hundred as Melbourn, two miles therefrom. Caulk hall and park, the seat of Sir George Crewe, Bart. (before mentioned) [Ed: with REPTON] a gentleman of great benevolence, is about three quarters of a mile from the village. The church here was erected at his sole expense, and the living is in his gift. This parish for the last thirty years has been retrograding in its population. At the census taken in 1801 it contained 96 inhabitants, and in 1831 only 58."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish covered 750 acres in 1851 and is 10 miles south of Derby city. The nearest bus service is in Ticknall, with no stops in Calke.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Calke 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 Calke from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Calke by Barbarann Ayars.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish 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 reforms, this parish became part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.
- White's Directory of Derbyshire, 1857, tells us that "The parish is joined to no Poor Law Union, as the noble owner undertakes to keep the poor from being chargeable." This would be highly unusual.
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Population
Year Inhabitants 1801 96 1831 58 1841 55 1851 79 1871 63 1881 48