MORTON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Cross.
  
  
• The church, except for the tower, was rebuilt in 1850.
  
  
• The church seats 150.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1575, but early parts are in bad condition.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of Holy Cross Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• Marriages at Morton, 1575-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
  

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Civil Registration

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

The parish covers just over 1,250 acres and lies 7.5 miles south of Chesterfield.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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