Church Broughton

The Etwall Library is close, but it does not have a Local History section or a Family History section.

The Derby City Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section to help with your search.

Geoff PICK has a photograph of the churchyard at St. Michael's on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2004.

• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
   
• The church was built in the "Early English" period (circa 1200).
   
• The church was fully restored in 1885-86.
   
• The church seats 250.
   
• Geoff PICK has a photograph of St. Michael & All Angels on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2004.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538 for all entries.
   
• Marriages at Church Broughton, 1538-1812 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1828.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   

"CHURCH BROUGHTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 10 miles to the W. of Derby. It is situated on a branch of the river Dove, and contains the township of Sapperton. The North Staffordshire railway passes within a short distance. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, worth £228, in the patronage of B. Broadhurst, Esq."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The village is 9 miles south-east of Ashbourne and 130 miles north of the City of London. The branch of the River Dove, mentioned above is the Broughton brook.  The hamlet and township of Sapperton is within this parish.

The Broughton Heath Golf Club, set up in 1998. is located 1.4 miles south-east of the village.

The village and parish have their own website for your use. Alas, there is little for the family historian there.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Church Broughton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Church Broughton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Church Broughton to another place.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of the Holly Bush Public House on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2017.

"Gravenhurst" is a house with 9 acres of land in the parish.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK205337 (Lat/Lon: 52.900354, -1.696688), Church Broughton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• There is a black metal silhouette of a soldier standing in the churchyard. The life-sized figure is of a WW1 soldier with peaked cap and helmet on his backpack, standing in the churchyard with reversed arms and bowed head. It appears to be a relatively modern addition, perhaps to commemorate of the centenary of the Armistice.
   
• There is a World War One "Roll of Service" inside St. Michael's Church with 78 names on it.
   
• There was an RAF airfield near Heathtop, just south of the village, during World War 2. Only the old concrete runways remain, now used for agricultural storage.
   
• John POVSER has a photograph of the disused runway at the old WW II airfield on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007.
   
• The Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC) reports two war graves in St. Michael's Churchyard.
   

• The two Commonwealth War Graves in St. Michael's Churchyard (data from the CWGC site) are for:
   

Names on the Roll of Service: "Men of this Parish who served in His Majestys Forces in the Great European War 1914 - 1919"

1. Walter Alcock
2. William Allen
3. Charles Alsopp
4. Percy Alsopp
5. Jack Appleby
6. Albert Askey
7. Isaac Askey
8. Percy Atkins
9. Alfred John Auden
10. Geoffrey William Auden
11. Harry Banks
12. William Banks
13. George Bannister
14. John Bannister
15. Harry Billing
16. Joe Billing
17. Sam Billing
18. Walter Billing
19. Ernest Blackwell
20. James Booker
21. Charles Bradshaw
22. Ernest Bradshaw
23. John Bradshaw
24. Charles Chatfield
25. William Clarke
26. Arthur James Coxon
27. Frank Coxon
28. Henry Coxon
29. Percy Luke Degg
30. Thomas Degg
31. Thomas Dunn
32. Frank Evans
33. Frank Flowers
34. Joseph Harvey
35. Samuel Harvey
36. Joseph Hunt
37. Thomas Jackson
38. Ernest Johnson
39. Harry Johnson
40. Raymond Jones
41. Ernest Kidd
42. John Lane
43. John Lane
44. Timothy Litherland
45. Arthur Middleton
46. Arthur Middleton
47. Frederick Middleton
48. Frederick Middleton
49. John Middleton
50. Samuel Middleton
51. Lewis Murby
52. William Neal
53. Egerton Orme
54. Harold Osborne
55. Josiah Phillips
56. Geoffrey Pritchard
57. John Pritchard
58. Sydney Redfern
59. Ted Refern
60. David Robertson
61. William Sharratt
62. George Shaw
63. James Smith
64. Joseph Smith
65. Sydney Smith
66. Anthony Thornton
67. Clifford Twigg
68. Thomas Twigg
69. Alfred Wagstaff
70. John Wall
71. Percy Walters
72. Jacob Willatt
73. Norman Willoughby
74. Percy Willoughby
75. George Wright
76. George Wyatt

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this from the Derby Mercury of 20 December, 1804: DIED: "On Sunday last, Mr. Thomas MILNER, sen. of Church Broughton, in this county, in the 91st year of his age, universally respected by all who knew him."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Church Broughton Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches. For some reason you have to login to use the site. I presume they are limiting access to residents.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases were heard in the Sudbury petty session hearings on the last Monday of each month.
   
• There is an index of over 20 Church Broughton Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Church Broughton" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1775.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

Prior to 1830, school was taught here in a barn.

A Public Elementary School was built here in 1830 for 49 mixed and 36 infant students.

To see today's school, use the CB Primary School link.