SMALLEY, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Crofts, Joyce and Read, J.- 'Footsteps through Smalley'. a history, ISBN 190 38684 527 9.
  
  
• Turton, Robert - 'Pictures of Smalley'. Village past in photographs, Maps and Drawings.

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Census

• The parish was in the Horsley 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 John the Baptist.
  
  
• The church had formerly been a Chapel of Ease to the church in Morley.
  
  
• The chapel was built in 1793 on the site of a much earlier church.
  
  
• The chapel was enlarged in 1844.
  
  
• The churchyard was added to the chapel grounds in 1878.
  
  
• The church seats 270.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1814 for burials, 1838 for marriages and 1854 for baptisms. Earlier records will be found at the church in Morley.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of extracted Parish Register burials (partial) in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• The Baptists had a chapel and burial ground constructed here in 1780.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• This place did not become a separate Civil Parish until1877.
  
  
• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"SMALLEY, a chapelry in the parish of Morley, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Derby, its post town, and 4 N.W. of Ilkeston railway station."

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

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Directories

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

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History

• The church hall has become the Village Hall. Adam FOSTER has a photogrpah of the Church Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2003.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston 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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