PILSLEY by CLAY CROSS, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Ashover sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2526 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2758 & 2774 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church was built in 1875.
- The ecclesiastical parish was created in January, 1874, out of North Wingfield.
- The church seats 360.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1874.
- A CD containing a transcription of
The Parish Registers of St Lawrence's Church North Wingfield also includes
Burials 1874-1900 for Pilsley (but not baptisms and marriages).
- The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
- The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built of stone in 1843.
- There were four other different Methodist chapels here by 1891.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ashover sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"PILSLEY, a township in the parish of North Wingfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 4 miles N. of Alfreton."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Pilsley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient hamlet and township in North Wingfield parish in county Derby.
- This parish was partly 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.