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SOMERSALL HERBERT, Derbyshire

"SOMERSALL is a small village, in the parish of Somersall- Herbert, in the same hundred as Doveridge, and adjoining thereto. It contains a small ancient church, dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The inhabitants of this parish and that of Doveridge, are chiefly employed in agriculture, the number in Somersall-Herbert in 1831, was 117, being an increase, in thirty years, of twenty-nine persons."

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

Cemeteries

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in St Peter's Churchyard, Somersall Herbert, collected and transcribed by Alf Beard.

Church History

• Photograph of St Peter's Church, Somersall Herbert, from Alf Beard.

• Photograph of Evangelical Free Church (Wesleyan 1900), Dove, from Alf Beard.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Peter's Church (CMB 1537-1905) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 12 Aug 2005.

Directories

• Directory for Doveridge, Somersall, Sudbury and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Somersall Herbert by Ann Andrews. Added 4 Jan 2006.

Gazetteers

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

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