FINDERN (or FINDERON), Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  
  
• We are fortunate to have an 1811 census of Findern online!
  
  
• 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 Norman church built here was consumed by fire in 1862.
  
  
• The church was built in 1863-64 on the site of an earlier chapel of the same name.
  
  
• The church seats 212.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the church on Geo-graph.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558, but early years are very faded.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials partially extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1837.
  

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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

"FINDERN, a chapelry in the parish of Mickleover, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Derby, its post town, and 6 N.E. of Burton."

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

• The parish covers about 1,600 acres.
  
  
• The village is split by the A50 Trunk Road into two halves.
  
  
• Although a railway runs through the parish, there is no station there today,
  
  
• The parish welcomes visitors and has a number of Historic Walks listed on the Peak District web site.
  
  
• A potted history and photographs of Findern can be found at the Derby Pictures site by Andy Savage.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Findern entry under Mickleover 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 Findern from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry and township in Mickleover parish, Derbyshire, and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In April, 1968, this parish received 14 acres when Littleover Civil parish was abolished and another 5 acres when Mickleover Civil Parish was abolished.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish joined the Burtton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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