ILKESTON, Derbyshire
Cemeteries
- The general cemetery on Stanton road was created as a 2-acre parcel in 1864.
- The coporation of Ilkeston created Park Cemetery out of 22.5 acres some time before 1899.
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Census
- The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church tower and spire were damaged in a great storm in 1714. In 1731 the tower was rebuilt. In 1855 that tower was removed a a new tower was built.
- The church seats 700.
- A mission church, dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, was built in 1893-94.
- The mission church seats 300.
- Holy Trinity was established as an ecclesiastical parish in 1888. The church of Holy Trinity was completed in 1890, but was completed with no tower. Mining in the area left doubt that a tower could stand.
- Holy Trinity Church seats 500.
- The church of Saint Bartholomew was built in Hallam Fields in 1896.
- St. Bartholomew Church seats 450.
- The church of Christ was built in Cotmanhay in 1847-48.
- Christ Church seats 600.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1586, but the years 1676 and 1679 are missing.
- The register for Holy Trinity church dates from 1888.
- The register for Christ Church dates from 1848.
- Marriages at Ilkeston, 1588-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's
database of scanned images of
Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- We have a pop-up window of Cotmanhay
register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- The church was in the Ilkeston rural deanery.
- The Baptists had a chapel here on Queen street before 1899.
- The Catholic Church, dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Thomas of Hereford, was built in 1862.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"ILKESTON is small, improving market-town, and watering place, of modern date, in the parish of its name and hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, about nine miles and a half N. E. from Derby, eight W. by N. from Nottingham, nearly 15 S. by W. from Mansfield, and ten S.E. from Belper. It stands on an elevated site near the river Erewash, commanding beautiful prospects in every direction, and its situation is considered remarkably healthy. Both the Erewash and the Nutbrook canals pass through the parish, affording a communication with the rivers Trent and Mersey. This place was anciently called Elchestane, and obtained a grant for a market and fair so early as 1251."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish is about 125 miles north of the city of London. The parish contains the hamlet of Hallam Fields 2 miles south-east of the town.
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Directories
- A Description of Ilkeston has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Ilkeston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- The town hall in the Market place was built in 1868.
- The town received its charter of incorporation in 1887.
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Medical Records
- Ilkeston Hospital on Heanor road was built in 1893.
- The author does not know what records have been retained. Hospitals were not required to archive their records.
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Military Records
- There is a War Memorial in the Market Place. The names are listed at Ilkeston History.
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Names, Geographical
- The ancient name for this place was "Tichestone".
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a moern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1794.
- As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Basford Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Smalley petty session hearings.
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Societies
- You may wish to stay in touch with the Ilkeston and District Historical Society.