Kedleston, Derbyshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Kedleston All Saints is an Ancient Parish built adjacent to Kedleston Hall and is nearly an estate church since the parish barely outside the boundaries of the Park.

KEDLESTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Belper, hundred of Appletree, S. division of the county of Derby, 4½ miles (N. W.) from Derby; containing 102 inhabitants. It comprises 977a. 2r., nearly the whole of which are within the limits of Kedleston Park, the splendid seat of Lord Scarsdale. The mansion, a structure of elegant design, contains a suite of superb apartments, embellished with every classical variety of art, a collection of paintings by the first masters, and a series of casts of the ancient school. Its grounds are adorned with plantations of oak and other full-grown trees, and with a fine sheet of water, over which a bridge of three arches forms an approach to the Hall. The scenery in the park is enriched with some picturesque cascades; and over a sulphureous spring, the water of which is efficacious in cutaneous and scorbutic diseases, is a building having a bath and other requisites for the use of the water. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £3. 19. 7.; net income, £155; patron, Lord Scarsdale. The church has a Norman south door, and contains several ancient monuments of the Curzon family.

From: 'Kaber - Kelfield', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 640-643. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51068 Date accessed: 20 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Belper Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Probate records
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Poor Law Unions
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