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Boulton

Cemeteries

Anglican
Blessed Virgin Mary, Boulton, Church of England

Census

The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2006
1861	R.G. 9 / 2490
1891	R.G. 12 / 2721 & 2722

Churches

Anglican
Blessed Virgin Mary, Boulton, Church of England

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Church History

Although a small Norman church was built here by the Sacheverell family around 1150, this was a chapelry of St. Peter's Church in Derby (officially recognized as such in 1281).
Boulton was formed as a separate ecclesiastical parish from St. Peter in 1730.
The chapel is dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary (also recorded as "St. Mary the Virgin").
The chapel was extended by 12 feet in 1840 and the rest of the fabric of the building was thoroughly repaired.
The chapel was again restored in 1871.
The chapel seats 340.
John BLAYLOCK has a photograph of the Lychgate and the chancel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2004.
Saint Mary's Church has its own Website but little history is evident.

Church Records

The Anglican parish registers date from 1614, but are partly included in Alvaston.
Marriages at Boulton, 1756-1812 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
The London Family History Centre has "Boulton marriages, 1756 to 1812" on microfilm, as well as the Bishop's Transcripts for 1662 - 1880.
We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
The chapel is in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here before 1891.
The Baptists had a chapel here in the 20th century.

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

"BOULTON, a chapelry in the parish of Derby St. Peter, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, in the county of Derby, 3 miles to the S.E. of Derby. The Midland railway and the Derby canal pass near it. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £120, in the patronage of the landholders. The church is old, and partly in the Norman style."

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

This place is 123 miles north of London, lies just south-east of Derby and south of Alvaston and covers 1,591 acres. Today the parish is a ward in the conurbation of Derby city.

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Directories

Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Boulton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

Gazetteers

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Historical Geography

You can see the administrative areas in which Boulton has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

History

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Roundhouse public house on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the Silver Ghost Inn on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012. The name reflects the Silver Ghost model of the Rolls Royce which was produced locally.
We have a transcription of a section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Boulton by Barbarann AYARS.

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK386325 (Lat/Lon: 52.888576, -1.427763), Boulton which are provided by:

This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
Google Streetview
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
OpenStreetMap
Bing (was Multimap)
OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
Elgin Road Works
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Military History

The lychgate to the churchyard is a War Memorial to those who fell in World War I.
The Commonwealth War Grave Commission lists 17 casualties from the two World Wars.

Military Records

There are the Commonwealth War Grave names in St. Mary's churchyard:

sapper Thomas ATTERBURY, R.E.
aircraft. 1st. Raymond Edgar George COCKBURN, R.A.F.V.R.
gunner Walter DAVIES, R.A.
sapper Douglas Walter GLEW, R.E.
private M. GOBBETT, R.A.M.C.
flying ofc. Bernard HALL, R.A.F.V.R.
private Samuel HALLSWORTH, K.O.Y.L.I.
private Arthur HOLLOWELL, Connaught Rangers
sergeant Philip Fred PALMER, R.A.F.
corporal Fred PARKER, Sher. Foresters
private Reginald PARKER, R.A.M.C.
driver Lawrence SCOTT, R.A.S.C.
sergeant Roy SMITH, R.A.F.V.R.
Co. Qtrm. Srgt. Edward SWINBURN, Sher. Foresters
Ldg. stoker Frederick W. WATSON, R.N.
driver Edgar George WEAVER, R.F.A.
gunner Ernest George WHOTTON, R.F.A.

Politics and Government

This place was an ancient Chapelry and Township in Derby St. Peter parish in Derbyshire and it became a separate, modern Civil Parish shortly after those were established.
This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
In 1884, this civil parish was absorbed as a ward of the city of Derby.

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
The Common Land was enclosed here in 1802.
The London Family History Centre has "Boulton Poor law records, 1720-1795" on microfilm.
As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act of 1834 reforms, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

Schools

Chris J. DIXON has a photograph of the Oakwood Infant School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2005. I believe this is technically the Oakwood Infant and Nursery School on Walden Drive. It is a relatively recent school establishment, not very far from Oakwood Junior School.