MORTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2525 & 2526 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2758 |
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Church Records
- A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of Holy Cross Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 23 Jul 2009.
- Marriages at Morton, 1575-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"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]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Morton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.