TRUSLEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1713 on the site of an older church.
  
  
• The church seats about 75.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1539.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"TRUSLEY, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 7 miles W. of Derby, its post town, and 5 N. of Tutbury railway station. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £129. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was rebuilt on the site of an earlier one in 1717. There is also the district church of Long Lane, the living of which is a perpetual curacy*, value £80."

[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 Trusley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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History

• For centuries, most of the parish was grazing land.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Trusley by Barbarann Ayars.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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