MELBOURNE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Heath, Philip - John Joseph Briggs's Diary. Published by The Melbourne Historical Research Group. ISBN 0-903463-78-4.

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Census

• The parish was the centre of the Melbourne 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 Michael.
  
  
• The Chantry of Saint Catherine was founded in 1379 near the church.
  

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Church Records

• We have a pop-up window of Melbourne burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• We also have a pop-up window of Melbourne Babtist burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The Independents built a chapel here in 1779 and enlarged it in 1841.
  
  
• The Swedenborgians built a chapel in 1825.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel in 1826.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"MELBOURN is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley. The village, which is a considerable one, and of some antiquity, is situate seven miles and a half S.S.E. from Derby, and about six N.N.E. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Camden notices this place as having a castle, wherein John Duke of Bourbon, of the blood royal of France, was incarcerated nine years, having been taken prisoner at the battle of Agincourt."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Schools

• "The grammar school at Melbourne, to be supervised by the chantry priest of St Katherine, was founded by the will of Sir Ralph Shirley, dated 10 March 1514 (VCHD 2,207)."
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999; VCHD=The Victoria History of the County of Derby)
  
  
• A National School was built here in 1821.
  

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