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SHELDON, Derbyshire

"SHELDON, a chapelry in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 3 miles W. of Bakewell, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near the river Wye, and is chiefly agricultural. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the lead mines. The impropriate tithes belong to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, and to the Duke of Devonshire."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Cemeteries

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Sheldon, collected and transcribed by Christopher Bennett.

Census

• Complete transcriptions of the Sheldon Census of 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 - included as Four Rural Areas, 1851-1881 - are accessible by various means.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Michael & All Angels Church (CMB 1745-1910) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 5 Feb 2007.

  In fact the earliest baptism in the above transcription is 29 Aug 1737, of Cornelius and Richard, sons of Cornelius & Elizabeth WHITE, followed by the first baptism proper, in 1746. In addition to the above, there is also a printed transcription of Sheldon registers available, covering the periods 1672-75 and 1745-1810 for baptisms, and 1745-1812 for marriages, which has the following note:

  "The Register Commenced in the year 1745 when the Queen's Bounty & Mrs Archer's Augmentation made Sheldon a private Curacy when John SWIFT B.A. was first Curate there."

  I recorded the above note from a transcription which I saw some years ago in the Society of Genealogist's Library, obtaining the reference [Ref: DB/R 29 pub. 1939] and covering dates from SoG's website more recenty. It is not clear to me now where the baptisms recorded as taking place 1672-75 came from. Added 12 Mar 2008.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Sheldon by Ann Andrews. Added 1 Mar 2007.

Folklore

• The Sheldon Duck - in 1610, so legend has it, a group of Sheldon villagers watched a duck fly into an ash tree. They were baffled however, as they never saw the duck come out again. Thereafter, the tree became known as 'The Duck Tree'. Nearly 3 centuries later, when the tree was felled and split up into planks in a timber yard in Ashford, the image of a duck sized pattern was found in the grain of the two middle planks, with markings where the brain and lungs would have been. Thus was born the legend of 'The Sheldon Duck'. The two boards were on display in Ashford Post Office for a while, and postcards showing an image of the duck used to be sold. However, it is no longer there as the timber merchant liked the pieces of wood so much that he used them for making a mantlepiece at his home.
  [Reference: Bunting, Julie - Branching Out into Fact & Fiction. Article published in The Peak Advertiser 5th April 2004, p1.& p9]

Gazetteers

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

History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Sheldon by Barbarann Ayars.

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