SEAL, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2268 |
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"NETHER and OVER SEAL form a parish, containing two hamlets so respectively named, in the western division of the hundred of Goscote, county of Leicester, which part is nearly surrounded by Derbyshire; about five miles and a half S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas, held at Tutbury, every third Tuesday for the recovery of debts under 40s. The parish church is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a rectory, in the patronage & incumbency of the Rev. W. N. Gresley. The parish contained, in 1831, 1,222 inhabitants."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Population
Year Inhabitants 1831 1,222