COTON IN THE ELMS, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 1963 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2199 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church was built in 1846.
- The church seats 246.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1846. Earlier registers are at Lullington
- The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here built before 1891.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Gesley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"COTON-IN-THE-ELMS is a township, in the parish of Lullington, about a mile from that village, containing 264 inhabitants."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Coton in the Elms 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 Coton in the Elms from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient Township in Lullington parish in Derby county but was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
- This 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, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.