LITTLE EATON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1863 from St. Alkmund parish of Derby. Prior to then, this place had been a Chapel of Ease to St. Alkmund.
  
  
• The chapel of ease was rebuilt in 1791. The chapel had been in a ruinous condition for decades before this and was last used as a blacksmith's shop. The new chapel was consecrated in July, 1791.
  
  
• The chapel was enlarged in 1837.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Paul.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  
  
• The church has its own website with current information and a brief history.

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Church Records

• The chapel was licensed for baptisms and burials in 1790.
  
  
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1813 for baptisms, marriages from 1865 and burials from 1814. Earlier registers exist under St. Alkmund, Derby.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• You might find these newspaper death notices from Trish Symonds of Australia useful, too.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  
  
• The Independents had a chapel here built in 1843.
  
  
• The United Methodists had a small chapel here before 1857 and replaced it with a larger church in 1906. This church closed in 1981.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"LITTLE EATON is a chapelry and village, in that part of the parish of St. Alkmund which is in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, rather more than one mile from Duffield. Here are many valuable collieries and productive stone quarries; bleaching grounds, belonging to Messrs. Smith & Sons, and machine-paper works of Messrs. Tempest & Son; there are, besides, malting concerns, and corn-mills on the Derwent river."

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

The parish covers only 530 acres and a small stream called "Bottlebrook" runs through the village.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Little Eaton 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 Little Eaton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• Rail passenger service came to the parish in September, 1856.
  
  
• In 1857 the parish had six stone quarries being worked.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Little Eaton by Barbarann Ayars.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
• You may contact the local Little Eaton Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed or funded to provide family history searches. Their web site does give access to information about local clubs and the village hall. At last check (2012), the local history page was incomplete.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1780.
  
  
• After the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  

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