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DERBY, Derbyshire

"DERBY is a market, borough, and county town, possessing separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch: it is 126 miles N.W. from London, 56 S.E. from Manchester, 34 S.S.E. from Chapel-en-le-Frith, 33 S.S.E. from Buxton, 24 S. from Chesterfield, 16 W. by S. from Nottingham, 13 S.E. from Ashbourn, and 12 N. by E. from Burton-upon-Trent." [There is further information for Derby]

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Archives and Libraries

• Derby Local Studies Library. Added 25 Dec 2005.

Bibliography

• Cunningham, Pat - Joan Waste, Derby's Martyr. Published by Pecsaetan, 2008.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Joan Waste, Derby's Martyr’

• Austin, Michael - 'Almost Like a Dream' : A Parish at War, 1914-1919
  From the start of the First World War until the Armistice, the Vicar of St Michael's, Derby encouraged men serving in the War to write to him telling of their experiences. Their letters were published month by month in the parish magazine and they have now been assembled under the editorship of The Revd Canon Michael Austin for a wider audience. The book also includes biographical notes and pictures of several of the men.

Church History

• Photograph of St Peter's Church, Derby, from Heather Faulkes.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Andrew's Church (CM 1864-1903) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 12 Aug 2005.

• Blanche Charles's East Midlands General Baptist History website features her ongoing transcriptions of Baptist registers, which include those belonging to the Brook Street Baptist Church in Derby. Added 15 May 2005.

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at St Alkmund's Church, 1538-1812; Marriages at St Michaels Church, 1559-1812; and Marriages at St Peter's Church, 1558-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volumes 4, 5 & 6).

• Janice Hargreaves' Derbyshire Marriage Index site formerly at homepage.ntlworld.com/sherwoodoutlaw is now apparently unavailable, but some of the pages may be accessible via an Archived Version of Derbyshire Marriage Index. Note: as these are archived versions some of the links may no longer work, but the original site contained Marriages at Derby (St Peter), 1558-1812 (separate web pages for Brides and Grooms).

Description and Travel

• The City of Derby - an excellent site. Of particular interest to the Family Historian are photographs of Churches in the City and surrounds, and a list of Executions in Derbyshire.

• Derby as it was nearly 200 years ago shown in The Andrews Pages Picture Gallery - Engraving of Derby. Added 12 Oct 2007.

Directories

• A Description of Derby and Directory for Derby, with the villages of Darley Abbey, Mackworth and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

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

Historical Geography

• Some wonderful old Pictures of the Past of Derby, dating from around 1905.
  (Contributed by Carol Hare and an anonymous donor)

History

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

Occupations

• A website for the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society - includes a history of the canal. Added 27 May 2006.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Impending legislation in 1834 to set up Unions of Workhouses across the country prompted local committees to enquire how the existing (1833) system was run so that they could amalgamate the best ideas from existing experienced administrators. A Copy of the Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Workhouse in the Parish of St Werburgh's, Derby together with an accompanying letter to explain the reasoning behind them, was sent by John Moody, Vestry Clerk of St Werburgh's Parish, to Mr Strutt, the owner of Belper Mill as part of this exercise. Both are preserved within The Strutt Papers (01/), at Manchester Archives and Local Studies, Manchester Central Library, along with a letter from G. T. Taylor, an Overseer, relating to the state of Stoke on Trent Workhouse. Here is an Overview of this Workhouse Correspondence.
  Transcriptions of Rules and Correspondence is by Caroline Densham.

Religion and Religious Life

• Derby Cathedral, an unofficial site: The Cathedral, Church of All Saints, Derby.
  "There has been a church on the site for over 1,000 years..."

• See also The Cathedrals of England - National Database.

Schools

• The following information is a quotation from A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999)

"The grammar school at Derby is believed to have originated as a school attached to the collegiate church of All Saints, but by the mid twelfth century it had been transferred to the care of the newly founded abbey of Darley... Occasional references to a schoolmaster occur in (the fifteenth century), but we have no firm information as to the site of the original school... The refoundation of the school dates from 21 May 1554, when Queen Mary, in return for a payment of £260 13s. 4d., granted the corporation of Derby a number of properties formerly belonging to Darley Abbey and to the College of All Saints, as well as the Church of St Michael... and the endowments of several other suppressed chantries and gilds for ... the foundation of 'a Free Grammar School, for the instruction and education of boys and youths in the said town of Derby for ever to be maintained by the Bailiffs and Burgesses of the same town ...' It is believed that, not long after this grant, the corporation built a new school building adjacent to St Peter's churchyard, where the school continued to flourish until it moved to St Helen's house in 1863.

"Apart from the grammar school for boys, the nuns of the priory of King's Mead - who were mostly daughters of the leading county families - ran a boarding school for young ladies which likewise perished at the Dissolution."

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