Yeaveley, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire



Parish History
Yeaveley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1844 from Shirley, Derbyshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Stydd

YEAVELEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Shirley, hundred of Appletree, S. division of the county of Derby, 4½ miles (S.) from Ashbourn; containing 329 inhabitants. The township comprises 1065 acres, of fertile soil, and has a well-built village, seated about a mile east of the high road from Ashbourn to Sudbury: Earl Ferrers is a considerable owner, and the lord of the manor. The common laud, about fifty acres, was inclosed in 1840. The chapel, rebuilt on a new site in 1840, and dedicated to the Trinity, is a neat brick structure, of which the cost, about £800, was defrayed by subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society; it has a tower, and contains 154 sittings, whereof 74 are free. An ecclesiastical district was annexed to it in 1844. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar. The impropriate tithes of the township have been commuted for £50, and the vicarial for £20. Here was a commandery of the Knights Hospitallers, dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist, to which Sir William Meynell was a great benefactor in 1268, and which had a revenue of £107. 3. 8. The chapel of this commandery, now called Stydd Chapel, has fallen to ruins, which present, nevertheless, some beautiful remains of early-English work.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 716-719. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51437 Date accessed: 24 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Yeaveley Holy Trinity includes the township of Stydd previously part of Shirley, Derbyshire parish, became a chaplery in 1841 and was formed as a parish in 1844.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 805 has deposited registers Bap 1841-1989 Mar none Burial 1841-1978

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1841-1867 Mar 1841-1844 Burials 1841-1866

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Poor Law Unions
Ashbourne 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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