Church Gresley Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Church Gresley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire.

Other places in the parish include: Castle Gresley, Drakelow, Linton, Oakthorpe, and Donisthorpe.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1574
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1664

Separate registers exist for Donisthorpe

  • Parish registers: 1838
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1838

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHURCH-GRESLEY, a township in the district of Burton-upon-Trent, and a parish in the districts of Burton-upon-Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and county of Derby.

The township lies around Gresley r. station, 4½ miles SE of Burton-upon-Trent. Pop., 2,108. Houses, 395.

The parish includes the townships of Swadlincote, Drakelow, Linton, Castle-Gresley, and parts of Donisthorpe and Oakthorpe hamlets; and its post town is Swadlincote, under Burton-upon-Trent.

Acres, 6,700. Real property, with the rest of D. and O., £25,996; of which £8,269 are in mines. Pop., 4,416. Houses, 852.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £108. The church is Norman, and was about to be restored in 1869. Patron, the Rev. Dr. Lloyd.

The vicarage of Swadlincote is a separate benefice.

There are a P. Methodist chapel and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Burton upon Trent
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Hartshorn
  • Poor Law Union: Burton upon Trent
  • Hundred: Repton and Gresley
  • Province: Canterbury