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TANSLEY, Derbyshire

"TANSLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Crich, hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Crich, and 1½ mile E. of Matlock, its railway station and post town. The village contains a candlewick and small-ware manufactory. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £100, in the patronage of the Vicar of Crich."

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

Bibliography

• Taylor, Keith - Tansley Remembered. Ashridge Press/Country Books. ISBN 1-901214-43-5. Added 12 Sep 2005.

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on the War Memorial, transcribed by Janet Kirk.

Census

• Transcriptions of the Wirkswirth Area Census covering Tansley for 1841, 1851 and 1881 (other years to follow) are available on John Palmer's Wirksworth site. This site also features Histories of Tansley, from various sources.

Church History

• Denys Gaskell has created a superb site for Holy Trinity Church, Tansley, which includes:-
  • History of Holy Trinity Church
  • Brodie Mais Window
  • Church events in pictures
  • Baptism, Marriage & Burial Indexes, covering the years 1840 - 1899.

  Very well worth a visit - even if you don't have any connections with Tansley, perhaps you will find inspiration there for building your own local village site!

• There is also a web site for Tansley Methodist Church which includes an account of the history of Methodism in Tansley, and a chronology of Tansley Methodist Church.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of Holy Trinity Church (CMB 1840-1910) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 23 Sep 2006.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Tansley by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

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

History

• Denys Gaskell's site devoted to Tansley Village has much of interest for the Family Historian, including:-
  • Old Photographs
  • War Memorial
  • Church Registers
  • Bulmer's 1895 Directory
  • Lumsdale
  • Lumsdale in pictures

Population

• Census Statistics - the population figures for the village of Tansley are as follows:-

  1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891
  381	370	449	507	549	593	622	610	678	767
  1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991
  839	781	758	846	738	685	670	1054	1229

  The above census statistics have been contributed by Joseph Platt.

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