CAULDWELL (or CALDWELL), Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  
  
• A transcription of the 1891 census can be found on Ancestry.com.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• It appears that there was a Christian church here before the Norman Conquest.
  
  
• The Chapel of Ease was a small structure with a tower and two bells.
  
  
• The chapel was dedicated to Saint Giles.
  
  
• The chapel was completely renovated in 1843.
  
  
• The chapel was restored in 1865.
  
  
• The chapel seats 80.

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Church Records

• Apparently the chapel was nor licesned to perform marriages; those were performed at Stapenhill.
  
  
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1679 and is incorporated with that of Stapenhill.
  
  
• The Baptists had a small chapel here before 1857 which was still in operation in 1891.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"CAULDWELL, a hamlet in the parish of Stapenhill, hundred of Repton and Gresley, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the S. of Burton-on-Trent."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

This place was a village, a township and a chapelry in Derby county. It covered 1,040 acres in 1857.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley 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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