Findern

Findern is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at the Lower Green Car Park on every fourth Friday in the late morning.

Alternatively, the Derby City Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

And there is also the Etwall Library.

• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials partially extracted into a file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• Don't forget to use the free Find-A-Grave website.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of All Saints Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
   
• We are fortunate to have an 1811 census of Findern online!
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The Saxon chaple of ease built here was consumed by fire in 1862.
   
• The church was built in 1863-64 on the site of the Saxon Chapel of Ease of the same name.
   
• The church seats 212.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.
   
• Phil MYOTT has a photograph of the church tower on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.

• The church contains a monument to Isabella de FYNDERNE dated 1444.
   
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558, but early years are very faded.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1835.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the Findern Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Findern Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   
• The village previously also had an early 18th century Unitarian Chapel, but it was demolished in 1939.

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

Jane TAYLORE also notes that the Derby Mercury reported on 15 February 1804: ABSCONDED from his wife and family: "Whereas John REDFEARN, of the Parish of Findern, in the county of Derby, has Absconded from his Wife and Family, and left them chargeable to the said Parish. This is to give Notice, that whoever will apprehend the said John REDFEARN, and lodge him in any of His Majesty's Gaols, and give information thereof to the Overseer of the said Parish of Findern, shall be handsomely Rewarded. The above John REDFEARN is by Trade a Butcher, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, light hair, pitted with small pox, and has a cast with his eyes. When he went away he wore Black Clothes.
Findern, Feb.15, 1804"

Jane TAYLOR reports that the Derby Mercury newspaper for 28 March 1805 notes: MISC: "The assizes for this county ended on Thursday last, when the following prisoners took their trials in addition to those mentioned in our last, viz. Wm. HAND for a burglary at Findern ... received sentence of death, but were afterwards reprieved."

"FINDERN, a chapelry in the parish of Mickleover, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Derby, its post town, and 6 N.E. of Burton."

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

• The parish covers about 1,600 acres.
   
• The village is split by the A50 Trunk Road into two halves.
   
• Although a railway runs through the parish, there is no station there today,
   
• The parish welcomes visitors and has a number of Historic Walks listed on the Peak District web site.
   
• A potted history and photographs of Findern can be found at the Derby Pictures site by Andy SAVAGE.
   
• The Mercia Marina is just south of the village.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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

• The parish is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as being held by Burton Abbey.
   
• Sir Geoffrey de Fynderne left the village to join the Crusades, and brought back the Findern Flower, which in the UK only grows in the village, and only in particular areas.
   
• Most of the villagers were Frame-Work Knitters. In 1846 there were as many as 22 velvet and silk looms in the village.
   
• Phil MYOTT has a photograph of the Wheel Inn on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   
• At last report the Wheel Inn had closed and was being refurbished as a Funeral Home

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK309307 (Lat/Lon: 52.872892, -1.542368), Findern 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.

• The War Memorial is to be found at All Saints Church.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Findern War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.

There is one Commonwealth War Grave in All Saints churchyard for:

Frederick William SPIRES, WO 2nd. class, Sherwood Foresters, died 9 October 1943, husband of Rose May SPIRES, of Findern.

Jane TAYLOR has this snippet from the Derby Mercury for 15 March 1804: DIED: "Monday last, at Findern, in this county, Mrs. HORWOOD, aged 75."

Jane TAYLOR reports that the Derby Mercury for 20 June 1805 has: MARRIED: On Wednesday last, Mr. Samuel WOOLLATT, of Findern, to Miss Ann BANCROFT, second daughter of Mr. BANCROFT, of Sinfin, both in this county.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry and township in Mickleover parish, Derbyshire, and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1968, this parish received 14 acres when Littleover Civil parish was abolished and another 5 acres when Mickleover Civil Parish was abolished.
   
• The parish holds an annual Parish Meeting for all residents, typically in April.
   
• You may contact the Findern Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Findern Village Halll on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017. Stop in when they are open and ask to see the schedule of forth-coming events.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
   
• There is an index of a pair of Findern Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Findern" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish joined the Burtton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

In 1694 an early school was started here by the Rev. Benjamin ROBINSON.

There is a Findern Historical Society. See the parish council site.