Rosliston

Rosliston village is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops on the Main Street every fourth Thursday in the early afternoon.

The nearby Swadlincote Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Colin PARK also has a photograph of St. Mary's Church and churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.

Michael SPENCER provides an extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

• The parish was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was an earlier church here, probably of Norman origin.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
   
• The church was re-built in 1819 from the earlier building.
   
• The church tower and spire are from a much older chapel that stood on this site from the 14th century.
   
• The church seats 120. (This number varies considerably depending on source.)
   
• Geoff PICK has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2004.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1568 for burials and baptisms, and from 1570 for marriages.
   
• Rob BURNS has a One-Parish Study of Rosliston with census and church records you should examine.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
   
• The United Methodists had a chapel here by 1912.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar has this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 3 October, 1804: "MISC: At the General Quarter Session of the Peace for this county, which ended here this day,- John POINTER, for stealing a strike and a half of wheat out of a barn in the parish of Rolleston, to be imprisoned 12 months."

"ROSLISTON is a parish (having no dependent town-ship), in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 4 miles and a half S.W. from Burton-upon-Trent. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt by subscription in 1827; the living is a curacy, subordinate to the rectory of Walton-upon-Trent. The parish contained, in 1831, 360 persons, being one more inhabitant than it contained, at the census taken in 1821."

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

The parish is 121 miles north of London and is due south of Burton-on-Trent.

Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014. Surely you could use your artistic talent and creative nature to make them a more enticing sign.

J. THOMAS also has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Rosliston entry under Church Gresley from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Rosliston entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
   
• And we have the Rosliston entry from the 1991 Derbyshire Book.

• The transcription of the section for Rosliston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Rosliston to another place.

• The parish feast has traditionally been on the Sunday after September 12th.
   
• Brian WEBSTER has a photograph of the South Derbyshire Miners Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2007.
   
• Mick MALPASS has a photograph of The Bulls Head in Rosliston on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
   
• J. THOMAS has a side-view of The Bulls Head on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.
   
• These are the names associated with the Bulls Head in various directories:
   

There is an 1840 land occupancy map for Rosliston available from the Derby Record Office.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK243167 (Lat/Lon: 52.747379, -1.641457), Rosliston which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• There is a Calvary Cross in St. Mary's Churchyard outside the south church door dedicated to the men of both World Wars who died. There are no names on the memorial.
   
• The parish has a row of Chestnut trees which are a Holocaust Memorial, dedicated 27 January 2011 at the Rosliston Forestry Centre.
   
• In 2011, a new War Memorial was added inside St. Mary's Church.
   

In St. Mary's church there is a white marble tablet to the memory of Private Albert E. BURTON of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who died in France on 26 Sept. 1917 at age 30.

Also in the churchyard is a family gravestone with this addition: "Jessie F. ELSON, killed in action at Anzio in 1944 age 20."

There are the 2 men from World War II in Commonwealth War Graves in Rosliston churchyard:

The parish and village sometimes are misspelled as "Rolleston".

• This place was an ancient Chapelry of Walton Parish in Derby county, but was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Rosliston Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches. They also have a Facebook page.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty seeesion hearings every other Tuesday.
   
• There is a partial list of Rosliston Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Rosliston" from the list displayed.
   
• In 1802, Rosliston and some neighboring parishes formed a Poorlaw Union under the Gilbert Act of 1782. A House of Industry was built in Rosliston. This building was sold after the formation of the Burton-on-Trent Poorlaw Union and was later demolished.
   
• What were the Rules for the House of Industry?
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

In an 1858 Will, James PIPE, a Rosliston farmer mentions:

• wife Louisa
• brother-in-law Thomas BACH Coton in the Elms farmer
• M. A. BACK, witness

Mike SPENCER contributes a list of School Admissions.