Sawley, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire

Parish History
Sawley All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Sawley with Wilsthorpe, Sawley and Wilsthorpe, Long Eaton, and Wilsthorpe.

SAWLEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby; containing, with the chapelry of Long Eaton, and the hamlet of Wilsthorpe, 1933 inhabitants, of whom 1018 are in Sawley township, 2 miles (E.) from Shardlow. This place had anciently a market and a fair, of which the former, having fallen into disuse, was revived about 1760, but was again discontinued before 1770; the market-house still remains. The parish is situated on the rivers Trent and Derwent, and comprises about 4000 acres, in about equal portions of arable and grass land; the surface is generally flat, and the soil various, with some excellent barley land. The village is neatly built; many of the population are employed in frame-work knitting and lace-running. The Trent and Mersey navigation, and the Erewash canal pass through the parish. Harrington bridge, across the Trent, on the Nottingham and Ashby-de-la-Zouch road, was commenced in 1786, and completed in 1790; it consists of six stone arches, and, with the approaches, is about 300 feet in length. Here is a station of the Rugby and Derby railway; the southern terminus of the Erewash-Valley railway is situated here; and here commences a line to Nottingham and Lincoln. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Wilne annexed, in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield; net income, £266, with a glebehouse. The tithes were commuted for land, under inclosure acts, in 1765 and 1787. The church is a large venerable edifice, consisting of a nave, chancel, aisles, and tower; an ancient carved oak screen separates the nave and chancel: in 1838 a gallery was built, and an organ added. At Long Eaton is a chapel of ease. There are places of worship for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Methodists of the New Connexion.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 23-26. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51257 Date accessed: 15 April 2011.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Sawley with Wilsthorpe registration transferred from Shardlow district in 1934.

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); 3A (1946-74).

Registers are now held at The Register Office, Royal Oak House, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AR. Tel: 01332 256526/35/36. Fax: 01332 256525. E-mail: registeroffice@derby.gov.uk

Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Shardlow Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Derbyshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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