RISLEY, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was built in 1593.
  
  
• The church seats 150.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1707.
  
  
• Marriages at Risley, 1720-1812 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 Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"RISLEY is a small village and township, partly in the parish of Sawley, and partly in that of Sandiacre, in the same hundred as Ilkeston, about four miles, south, from that town, one and a half, north, from Breason, and about seven and a half, east, from Derby. This manor was formerly held by Sir Hugh Willoughby, the celebrated navigator, who sailed on the 10th of May, 1555, with three ships, in search of a north-east passage, and was frozen to death, with all his crew, in the January following, in the Frozen Ocean."

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

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Directories

• A Description of Risley has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Risley township entry under Breason 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 Risley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial outside All Saints' Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry of Wilne parish in Derby county.
  
  
• In December, 1866, this Chapelry was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish.
  
  
• 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 Poorlaw Amendment Act of 1834 reforms, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  

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Schools

• A grammar school at Risley was founded in 1593 by Katherine WILLOUGHBY.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999)

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