SOUTH NORMANTON, Derbyshire
Bibliography
- Chantry, Joy - South Normanton in Stuart Times 1603-1714.
This book, with an index, is full of very useful information for anyone interested in the area of South Normanton. It includes chapters on everyday life, housing, occupations and a section on some local residents as well as many other names mentioned throughout the book. The book is now sadly now out of print, with the last copy purchased as a result of a note on this page! Copies may however be available in libraries, or via Inter Library Loan (ILL). [Information from The Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group Newsletter No. 16, April 2000]
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Census
- The parish was in the Blackwell sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Saints.
- The church was rebuilt in 1878.
- The church seats 400.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1540.
- Transcription by Carol Ryan of Marriages 1800-1836
at South Normanton sourced from both PRs and BTs.
- Transcription by Carol Ryan of South Normanton Stray Marriages
from the neighbouring parishes of Pinxton, Alfreton, Sutton in Ashfield and
Mansfield, extracted from Phillimore, and Pinxton Parish Registers.
- Transcription by Carol Ryan of Burials 1800-1840
at South Normanton sourced from both PRs and BTs.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
- The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists each had chapels here before 1891.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Blackwell sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"SOUTH NORMANTON, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2¼ miles E. of Alfreton, its post town, and 2 N.W. of the Pinxton railway station. The village, which is large, is situated on an eminence, and is chiefly agricultural. It formerly belonged to the Willoughbys and Revels, which latter family resided here from the time of the Conquest. The surface is elevated and the scenery diversified. The substratum abounds in coal, of which some mines have been opened. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £285."
[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 South Normanton 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 South Normanton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alfreton petty sessional hearings.