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Elvaston

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Bibliography

MORRELL, J. F. - In the Shadow of a Castle. publ. unknown. Be careful, this title has been used before, so make sure the book is about Elvaston.

Cemeteries

Anglican
St Bartholomew, Elvaston, 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 / 2140
1861 R.G. 9 / 2490
1891 R.G. 12 / 2721

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2140
1861	R.G. 9 / 2490
1891	R.G. 12 / 2721

Churches

Anglican
St Bartholomew, Elvaston, Church of England

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Elvaston area or see them printed on a map.

Church History

The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.
The church was entirely restored in 1474.
The church seats 250.
Tom WOSIK has a photograph of St. Bartholomew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.
John SALMON also has a photograph of St. Bartholomewh on Geo-graph, taken in 1991.

Church Records

The Anglican parish register dates from 1662.
We have a pop-up window of extracted Parish Register baptisms (partial) in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
We have a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
Marriages at Elvaston, 1651-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
The church was in the rural deanery of MeIbourne.

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

"ELVASTON, a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 6 miles S.E. of Derby, its post town, and 2 S. of the Draycar station on the Derby and Nottingham branch of the Midland Counties railway."

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

Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for Elvaston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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Historical Geography

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

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK410325 (Lat/Lon: 52.888399, -1.392096), Elvaston 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 Traces of War website shows us the parish had a Starfish Decoy Site in Ambaston.
Jerry EVANS has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007. The War Memorial is on the corner of Silver Lane and Main Road.
Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Alvaston War Memorial erected in 1923 on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018.
Alf BEARD has a close-up of the Elvaston War Memorial erected in 1923 on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.

Politics and Government

This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
You may contact the Elvaston Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
There is an index of over a dozen Elvaston Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Elvaston" from the list of parishes displayed.
As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

Schools

A Church of England School (mixed was erected in 1852, for 80 children,