Mapperley

There is an excellent Library at Heanor to assist you.

The two Libraries at Ilkeston would also be a good resource.

The Derbyshire Records Ofice has some interesting documents on Mapperley. Item Q/RP/2/207 is a plan of a proposed railway to Mapperley Colliery, submitted to the Quarter Sessions Court in 1889 by the Great Northern Railway.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of the Church graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.

Jon CANTRILL has contributed a list of Mapperly Burials for your review. Additions and corrections are welcomed.

A number of Mapperley residents were buried at West Hallam parish cemetery.

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

• The Anglican ecclesiastical parish was formed on 22 July 1870 from the civil parish of Kirk Hallam.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
   
• The church was built of stone in 1851.
   
• Subsidence, caused by coal mining, caused the church to be closed in 1964. A new structure was built on a concrete "raft" and opened in 1966.
   
• The church is on Mapperley Lane south of Main Street.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the new Church of The Holy Trinity on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.
• The church seats 200.
   
• There is a photograph of the new church at The Peak District website.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1851.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
   
• There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the parish in 1912.

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

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar has this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 3 October, 1804: "MISC: At the General Quarter Session of the Peace for this county, which ended here this day,- John TUCKER, for stealing a goose at Mapperley, to be imprisoned 6 months."

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of The Stocks at Mapperley on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020.

• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011. It also conveys the bucolic nature of the parish.
   
• Mapperley Reservoir lies just to the north of the village. the Nutbrook Canal crossed the eastern side of the parish.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Mapperey entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Mapperley to another place.

• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of The Old Black Horse Puiblic House on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of The Old Black Horse Puiblic House on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK431430 (Lat/Lon: 52.982507, -1.359223), Mapperley which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• In 1912, this parish was the partially owned by Captain William Drury DRURY-LOWE (ret.) of the Grenadier Guards. He would later die in World War I at the Somme in September, 1916.
   
• There are two War Memorial plaques in the Lychgate to Holy Trinity Church, of which the first was dedicated on 13th May, 1922 by Capt John A. E. DRURY-LOWE.

The WW1 Tablet reads:

IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE HARRISON NOTTS & DERBYS.
BRITUS MARTIN  -  -  -  K.R.R.
LUTHER MARTIN  -  -  -  R.F.A.
WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER.

The WW2 plaque reads:

IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM JOSEPH CLIFFE, OXD. & BUCKS. LT. INFANTRY.
THOMAS ERNEST BRIDGES, SHERWOOD FORESTERS.
DESMOND MARTIN,
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY
1939-1945
ALL THEY HAD – THEY GAVE.

Derbyshire Advertiser, 19th May 1922 p7: photographs and an extensive report of the War Memorial unveiling ceremony.

Derby Telegraph, 15th May, 1922; p3: a brief report of the unveiling ceremony.

• This place was an ancient Township in Kirk Hallam parish and was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Mapperley Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Smalley (Ilkeston Court) petty session hearings.
   
• The Reverend Francis GISBORNE left an annual charity of £3 12s. and 6d in 1817 for clothing for the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

A mixed school was erected in 1867 and considerably enlarged in 1890 for 140 children and infants.