Bradley, Derbyshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Bradley is an Ancient parish.

BRADLEY (All Saints), a parish, in the hundred of Appletree, union of Burton-upon-Trent, S. division of the county of Derby, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Ashbourn; containing 271 inhabitants. At the time of the Domesday survey, the manor belonged to Henry de Ferrers; and at a very early period it became the property and seat of the ancient family of Kniveton: Sir Andrew Kniveton, in 1655, sold the estate to the Meynells. Bradley comprises 2374a. 3r. 23p., the soil of which is, in nearly equal portions, strong and light. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £5. 19. 9½., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield: the tithes have been commuted for £262, and the glebe comprises 55 acres. The church is a small ancient structure. There is a chalybeate spring, but not much used.

From: 'Bradford Abbas - Bradninch', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 331-334. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50820 Date accessed: 28 March 2011.

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

BRADLEY, a parish in Ashbourne district, Derby; 2½ miles E by S of Ashbourne r. station. Post Town, Ashbourne. Acres, 2,374. Real property, £3,144. Pop., 253. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £259.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient and decayed. Gisborne's charities for Bradley and many other places in the county yield £687 a year.

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.

Church records
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 Llist contiguous parishes.

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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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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