ELMTON, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
- The church was rebuilt in 1771.
- The church seats 150.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1599.
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Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- Transcription by Carol Ryan of Marriages 1800-1860 at Elmton. Added 6 Feb 2009.
- Transcription by Jon Cantrill of Marriages 1861-1870 at Elmton.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
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Description and Travel
"ELMTON, a parish, in the same hundred as Bolsover is about 3 Miles N.E. from that town. This was the birth-place of Jedediah Buxton, the great arithmetic calculator. The church here, is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes. The parish contained in 1821, 352 inhabitants, and at the last census (1831) the number had decreased to 340."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish is 9 miles east of Chesterfield and includes the hamlet of Cresswell.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Elmton 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 Elmton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1841.
- Bastardy cases would be heard at the Eckington petty sessional hearings.