Boulton, Derbyshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Boulton St Mary was orginally a chapelry in Derby St Peter, Derbyshire which was formed as a parish in 1865.

BOULTON, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Peter, Derby, union of Shardlow, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 3½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Derby; containing 171 inhabitants. It comprises 791a. 3r. 4p., and is intersected by the Derby canal: the village has several neat houses. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Proprietors of land in the chapelry; net income, £120. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1802; the incumbent then received 29 acres, besides which he has 37 acres in other places. The chapel was enlarged and repaired in 1840, at a cost of £480.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 314-317. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50815 Date accessed: 13 April 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Boulton like this:

BOULTON, a township-chapelry in St. Peter parish, Derbyshire; on the Derby canal, 3 miles SE of Derby. Post Town, Derby. Acres, 1,240. Rated property, 1,500. Pop., 224. Houses, 45. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £120. Patrons, the Landholders. the church is partly Norman, and in good condition.

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.

After 1968 registration became part of Derby registration district.

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
Boulton St Mary registers need to be read in conjunction with neighbouring Alvaston, Derbyshire The sequence of Baptism and burials registers for 1614-1754 will be found in the Alvaston, Derbyshire registers for this parish events. This parish contains baptisms and burials for 1797-1809 which are for Alvaston, Derbyshire events.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D1532 and D878 has deposited registers Bap 1614-1975 Mar 1614-1807, 1813-1833, 1841-1974 Burials 1614-1976 Banns 1756-1802, 1903-1915, 1933-1946, 1948-1956, 1959-1976, 1980-1992

To find the names of neighbouring parishes, use Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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Census records
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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.

Poor Law Union
Shardlow Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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