STAVELEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield 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 seats 800.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1557.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register baptism extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"STAVELEY is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale, the village being about five miles E.N.E. from Chesterfield, and three S.W. from Barlborough; situate near the banks of the river Rother, and the Chesterfield canal. In the neighbourhood are mines of coal and iron-stone, with furnaces for smelting the ore; and in the village is a manufactory for painting brushes of a superior description, and brushes for machinery, belonging to a Mr. Fletcher."

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

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Directories

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

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Schools

• A grammar school at Netherthorpe in Staveley was founded jointly in 1572 by the (de)Rodes, Sitwell, Frecheville and Cavendish families, although it is understood the Cavendish family later withdrew from this partnership.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999, et al)

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