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“LITTLE CHESTER, (or Chester) a township and chapelry in the parish of Derby St. Alkmund, hundred of Morleston, in the county of Derby, 1 mile N. of Derby. It is situated on the Leeds railway and the river Derwent, and occupies the site of the Roman station Derventio, the Cestre of Doomsday. The wall which formerly surrounded it could be traced in 1721; but the whole of it has been removed by subsequent cultivation. The site measured 600 feet by 700.
The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £150, in the patronage of the bishop and crown alternately. The church, dedicated to St. Paul, and built in 1849 is a handsome structure in the decorated style. There are National schools for both sexes. In the vicinity have been found many Roman coins, and military ways led to Chesterton and Manchester.”
from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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| St Alkmund, Derby, Church of England |
- The parish was in the Derby sub-district of the Derby Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
YearPiece No. 1841 H.O. 107 / 199 1861 R.G. 9 / 2494 thru 2497 1891 R.G. 12 / 2736 thru 2738 1901 R.G. 13 / 3215
| St Alkmund, Derby, Church of England |
- The first Christian church was raised here in 820 AD.
- The 9th century church of Saint Alkmund was pulled down in 1841.
- The Church of St. Alkmund was erected on Queen Street in 1846 at a cost of about £12,000.
- This new church had a western tower with a lofty octagonal spire.
- This church seated 1,250.
- This church was demolished in 1968 to make way for a new Inner Ring road.
- There is a new St. Alkmund Church building, erected in 1971 on Kedleston Road and consecrated in March 1972.
- In 1984, St Werburgh ecclesiastical parish merged with St. Alkmund's.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1538 and is in good condition.
- Marriages at St Alkmund's Church, 1538-1812 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Derby sub-district of the Derby Registration District.
- The transcription of the section for Derby St Alkmund from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Derby, St Alkmund to another place.
From Janet ANDERSON in San Jose, California:
In the Derby Mercury for October 29, 1834: "MARY ELKIN, aged 19, was charged with stealing in the parish of Saint Alkmund, nineteen sovereigns and one five-pound note, the property of Mr. Thomas HEBBERN."
John Raphael SMITH was baptized at St. Alkmund's Church on 25 May 1751, Named after the great Renaissance artist, he was born to mother Hannah Silvester and a father who was also a well thought of citizen of Derby. One of his engravings is in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK346372 (Lat/Lon: 52.931095, -1.48671), Derby, St Alkmund which are provided by:
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- 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)
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- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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The Queen Mary Nursing Home was a private maternity hospital, founded around 1865. Hospitals did not have to archive patient records, but you may find photographs and administrative records in the Archives.
Ian CALDER has a photograph of the Queen Mary Nursing Home entrance on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.
Jon CANTRILL provides this extract from the Derby Mercury of 7th January 1829: MARRIAGES: "On the 29th ult. At St. Alkmund's Church, by the Rev. C. R. HOPE, Mr. BAILEY, farmer, of Mickleover, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. T. MANSFIELD, of the Eagle and Child Public House, in this place."
Joy HUNGERFORD has this extract from the Derby Mercury of 18 April 1832: MARRIAGES: "Samuel MARTIN, aged 76, to Mrs. PARKES, 75, of St Alkmund's Parish in this town.
- 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 Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
- In 1898 this Civil Parish was abolished and merged into the new Derby Municipal Borough.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings every Friday.
- There is a single Derby St. Alkmund Bastardy Paper held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Derby St. Alkmund" from the list of parishes displayed.
- With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Derby Poorlaw Union.