LITTLEOVER, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow 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 Peter.
  
  
• The church was built in the 14th century as a Chapel of Ease.
  
  
• The church has its own website, but it offers no history of the building.
  
  
• Littleover also has a new Anglican church dedicated to Saint Andrew and constructed in 1979 on Blagraves Lane.

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Church Records

• Remember that you may have to search under Micleover for records prior to 1866 (when the parish was formed).
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has the parish registers for 1680 thru 1924 and the Bishop's Transcripts for 1662 thru 1869 on microfilm.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Derby.
  
  
• The Baptists built a chapel here before 1857.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here before 1857.

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"LITTLEOVER, a chapelry in the parish of Mickleover, hundred of Morlaston, county Derby, 2 miles S.W. of Derby, its post town. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Mickleover, in the diocese of Lichfield. The chapel contains a marble monument to one of the Harpur family. A short distance from the village is situated the county lunatic asylum, on an elevated spot from which there is an extensive prospect."

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

The village now functiuons as a suburb of Derby city and lies 3 miles south of the city centre.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Township and Chapelry in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In April, 1928, this parish gave up 62 acres to Derby Civil Parish and 156 acres to Normanton Civil parish.
  
  
• In April, 1968, this parish was abolished and 14 acres were given to Findern Civil parish.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• In 1768 Thomas WADE left a charity of 12 shillings a year to be paid to poor widows on every St. Thomas day. In 1857, his decendant, Geoerge WADE, was still honoring this bequest.
  
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act of 1834 reforms, the parish joined the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  

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