QUARNDON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper 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 Paul.
  
  
• The church was built in 1874 to replace a Chapel of Ease from All Saints, Derby. The 12th century tower from the old chapel was retained.
  
  
• The church seats 365.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1772 for baptisms, 1755 for marriages and 1821 for burials.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• Marriages at Quarndon, 1775-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"QUARNDON is a village in the parish of its name, in the same hundred as Allestry, about three miles and a half N.N.W. from Derby; deriving some celebrity from its chalybeate waters, which are considered highly beneficial in cases of debility, and from the salubrity of its situation."

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

Photographs of Quarndon are at the Derbyshire Photos site.

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Directories

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

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History

• There are Chalybeate springs near neighboring Kedleston. The iron-rich water was very popular in the 1600 and 1700s.
  
  
• The parish land was mostly used for pasturage.
  
  
• A history of Quarndon has been written and copies distributed to every householder. Check local libraries for a copy.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Quarndon by Barbarann Ayars.

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Military History

• The War Memorials in St. Paul's Church are documented at the War Memorial Archives site.

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Military Records

The inscription and the names from the stainless-steel war memorial plaque are:

• In memory of nine brave menof this parish who, obeying the summons to fight for their country in the Great War, 1914-1919, answered a higher call and returned not again.
  
  
• William Arthur BOISSIER
• Harry BULL
• Eric DUNSTON
• Joseph HEATHCOTE
• Harry MOORCROFT
• William Fredk PEARCE
• Horace REVITT
• Ernest George RIDE
• George WINSON
  
  
• And three who returned to die:
  
  
• Erskine CROSSLEY wounded in France July 1916 died April 3 1920
• William FOWKE gassed in France May 19 1918 d. August 28 1919
• Alfred SCOTT d. March 11 1920.

There is also a Roll of Honour framed in the church.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch 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 Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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