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MORTON, Derbyshire

"MORTON, a parish and pleasant village, 3¼ miles N. from Alfreton, and 1¼ miles S.E. from Stretton Railway Station, and contained in 1851, 257 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, is a neat stone edifice in the decorated style. The living is a rectory; the Rev. Thomas Lund, B.D., incumbent."

[Description from Harrison, Harrop & Co.'s Directory & Gazetteer of Derbyshire, 1860]

Church History

• Photograph of Holy Cross Church, Morton, from Heather Faulkes.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of Holy Cross Church (CMB 1576-1910) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 5 Feb 2007.

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Morton, 1575-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 5).

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Morton by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Morton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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