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CHELLASTON, Derbyshire

"CHELLASTON is an inconsiderable parish, in the same hundred as Melbourn, 3½ miles N. from that village, and 4½ S.E. by S. from Derby. The places of worship are, the parish church, dedicated to St. Peter, and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists. The living of Chellaston is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle. Population, 352."

[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 Chellaston, 1570-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 6).

Directories

• Directory for Melbourn, Repton-with-Bretby, Ticknall, Caulk, Chellaston, Foremark-with-Ingleby, Smisby, Stanton-by-Bridge, Swarkeston, Twyford, Willington 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 Chellaston by Ann Andrews. Added 2 Feb 2006.

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

• Extracts from Trade Directories, Parish Registers, Census, &c. and other miscellaneous information for this area may be found on Brett Payne's South Derbyshire Genealogical Resources. Site is updated regularly.

History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chellaston by Barbarann Ayars.

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