DALBURY LEES, 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 All Saints.
  
  
• The church seats 129.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1545 for all entries.
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has the parish registers for 1545 thru 1982 on microfilm. They also have the Bishop's transcripts for 1676 thru 1874.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here before 1891.
  

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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

"DALBURY, (or Dalbury with Lees) a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Burton-on-Trent, the same distance S.W. of Derby, and 3½ N. of Egginton station."

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

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Dalbury Lees 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 Dalbury from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
  
  
• And we have the transcription of the section for Dalbury from "Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland" in 1891 at the Andrews pages.

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Names, Geographical

• "Dalbury" is from the Old Norse deity named "Delingr." The village is referred to twice in the 1086 Domesday Book; once as Delbebi, and once as Dellingeberie.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The London Family History Centre has the Churchwardens Accounts for 1852 thru 1916.
  
  
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish joined the Burtton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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