Smalley

The Library at Belper is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alternatively, the Ilkeston Library is also an excellent resource.

• CROFTS, Joyce and READ, Joseph - 'Footsteps through Smalley'. a history, ISBN 190 38684 527 9. This is also on Microfilm 6036850 at the Family History Library.
   
• TURTON, Robert - 'Pictures of Smalley'. Village past in photographs, Maps and Drawings.

• Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and correction are welcome.
   

• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• The church had formerly been a Chapel of Ease to the church in Morley.
   
• The chapel was built in 1793 on the site of a much earlier church.
   
• The chapel was enlarged in 1844.
   
• The churchyard was added to the chapel grounds in 1878.
   
• The church seats 270.
   
• There are some photographs and a history of St. John the Baptist Church website.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1814 for burials, 1838 for marriages and 1854 for baptisms. Earlier records will be found at the church in Morley.
   
• Marriages at Smalley, 1624-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
   
• The Baptists had a chapel and burial ground constructed here in 1780.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• This place did not become a separate Civil Parish until 1877.
   
• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.

"SMALLEY, a chapelry in the parish of Morley, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Derby, its post town, and 4 N.W. of Ilkeston railway station."

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

Photographs of the village can be viewed at the Andy SAVAGE Derby Photos site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Colin HINSON provideds the transcription of the section for Smalley from the National Gazetteer (1868).
   
• John BARTHOLOMEW's "Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)" describes the parish as:

Smalley, township and vil., Morley par., Derbyshire - township, 1718 ac., pop. 815; vil., 4 miles NW. of Ilkeston; P.O., T.O.; in vicinity is Smalley Hall, seat.

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

• The church hall has become the Village Hall. Adam FOSTER has a photogrpah of the Church Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2003.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Smalley Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK410445 (Lat/Lon: 52.996235, -1.391266), Smalley 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.

• During World War One, there was a Red Cross Hospital here at Smalley Hall and another at Morley Manor.
   
• Andrew SAVAGE has a photograph of the War Memorial on Derbyshire Photos, taken in 2003.
   

There is a single Commonwealth War Grave in St. John's churchyard for World War I:

1. A. FLETCHER, priv. Machine Gun Corps, age 28, died 11 Nov. 1918. Husband of Sarah FLETCHER.

There is a Oak three-panel War Memorial in St. John's Church with the following WWI names on it (noted as "The following gave their lives for their country":

1. ATTENBOROUGH, ARTHUR, 1st Kings Royal Rifles
2. ATTENBOROUGH, FREDERICK, 7th Battn Lincolns
3. ATTENBOROUGH, THOMAS, 5th Battn Sherwood Fores.
4. BACON, SAMUEL, 10th Battn Sherwood Foresters.
5. BARNETT, WILLIAM HENRY, K.O. Royal Lancasters
6. BEARDSLEY, HAROLD, Sherwood Foresters
7. CLARK, ARTHUR, Royal Field Artillery
8. COPE, WILLIAM, Royal Field Artillery
9. CRESSWELL, ERNEST, Royal Naval Division
10. ELLIOTT, RICHARD, Grenadier Guards
11. FIANDER, EDGAR Somerset Light Infantry
12. FLETCHER, ALBERT, Sherwood Foresters
13. FLETCHER, ARTHUR, 8th South Staffs.
14. HAZELWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY, Sherwood Foresters
15. HORSLEY, HAROLD, Royal Army Medical Corps.
16. JACKSON, JAMES, 1st South Notts Hussars
17. KEATES, FREDERICK, 1st Battn North Staffs Regt.
18. KERRY, THOMAS ANTHONY, Sherwood Foresters
19. MALES, DAVID, Sherwood Foresters
20. MALES, DAVID, Sherwood Foresters
21. MARTIN, REGINALD, Sherwood Foresters
22. MCKIDDIE, WILLIAM, Sherwood Foresters
23. MEE, GEORGE, 16th Battn Sherwood Foresters
24. MEE, MARK, 96th Battery Royal Field Artillery
25. MESSER, ALFRED, Rifle Brigade
26. MOSS, WILFRED, 14th Battn Sherwood Foresters
27. NEWTON, HARRY, Sherwood Foresters
28. PAGE, ARCHIE. 4th Battn Sherwood Foresters
29. PAGE, JOSEPH, 3rd Suffolk Regt.
30. TOPLIS CYRIL, Royal Engineers
31. WILMOT-SITWELL, JACINTH SACHEVERELL, Cols Gds.
32. WOODHOUSE, JOHN ARTHUR, Sherwood Foresters

There is also a Roll of Honour on the above War Memorial listing Those Who Served:

1. ABBOTT, JOHN WM.
2. ABBOTT, REGINALD F.
3. ABBOTT, RICHARD H.
4. ADAMS, HENRY C.
5. AMIES, CHARLES
6. ATTENBOROUGH, ED
7. BARLOW, GEORGE ERNEST
8. BARHAM, ALBERT
9. BARHAM, LEONARD
10. BARKER, MARK H.
11. BARKER, THOMAS
12. BANCROFT, ALBERT
13. BENNETT, HORACE
14. BOWER, FREDERICK
15. BOWLER, HAROLD
16. BOWMER, ISAAC
17. BOWN, PHILIP
18. BRADDOCK, ERNEST A.
19. BRADFORD, HENRY C.
20. BRASSINGTON, JOSEPH
21. BRIGGS, JOHN H.
22. BULL, WILLIAM
23. CARLIN, ALBERT
24. CARLIN, FRANK
25. CARLIN, SAMUEL
26. CARTER, H.
27. CHILTON, FREDERICK
28. CLARK, GEORGE
29. COX, CHARLES E.
30. COX, WALTER H.
31. COX, REGINALD F.
32. CRESSWELL, CHARLES WM.
33. CRESSWELL, JOSEPH
34. CROOKS, FRANK
35. CROFTS, ARTHUR
36. CROFTS, CYRIL
37. CROFTS, SAMUEL
38. DIX, HERBERT H.
39. DIX, JOHN HENRY
40. DIX, REGINALD T.
41. EYRE, WILLIAM
42. FOULKS, FREDERICK
43. FLINN, ARTHUR
44. FLINN, ROBERT
45. FLINT, GEORGE W.
46. FLINT, JONATHAN
47. FLINT, IVAN
48. FLETCHER, CHARLES
49. HALL, ARTHUR
50. HALL, HERBERT
51. HANCOCK, JOHN
52. HART, JOHN
53. HARTSHORN, ALBERT
54. HARRISON, ERNEST
55. HARRISON, REGINALD
56. HARRISON, WILLIAM
57. HOBSON, FREDERICK
58. HORSLEY, WILLIAM
59. HORT, HORACE
60. HORT, SAMUEL
61. HORT, WALTER
62. HUDSON, SAMUEL
63. KEMP, ARTHUR
64. KERRY, VICTOR E. S.
65. KNOWLES, CYRIL
66. KYTE, JOHN
67. KYTE, WALTER
68. LEWIS, HENRY
69. LISTER-KAYE RUSSELL
70. LOCKWOOD, FRANK
71. LOVETT, WINSTON
72. MALES, DOLAN
73. MALES, ISAAC
74. MALPAS, EVERARD
75. MARRIOTT, WALTER
76. MARSHALL, JOHN
77. MARTIN, ALBERT
78. MARTIN, ALBERT M.
79. MARTIN, ARTHUR R.
80. MARTIN, FREDERICK
81. MARTIN, INMAN
82. MARTIN, PHILIP
83. MOSS, JAMES ARTHUR
84. MOSS, WILLIAM
85. MUSSON, RICHARD
86. MUSSON, ROBERT
87. MURFIN, CHARLES
88. PARKIN, WILLIAM THOMAS
89. POCOCK, GEORGE
90. POLLARD, ALBERT
91. RATCLIFFE, WILFRED
92. RAYNOR, JOHN
93. RIDD, WILLIAM
94. SEAL, THOMAS O.
95. SMALES-CRESSWELL, ALFD.
96. SMALES-CRESSWELL, CHAS.
97. SMALES-CRESSWELL, HY.
98. SMITH, FREDERICK J.
99. SOAR, SAMUEL T.
100. STAFFORD, CHARLES
101. STAFFORD, JOSEPH
102. STAFFORD, WILLIAM H.
103. STEDMAN, WILLIAM
104. STEVENS, ALLEN
105. TALBOT, W.
106. THOMPSON, DAVID
107. TURNER, ARTHUR
108. TURNER, JOSEPH
109. TURNER, WILLIAM
110. WAIN, HARRY
111. WAIN, WILLIAM B.
112. WALTERS, FRED.
113. WEBSTER, ERIC
114. WEBSTER, RADFORD
115. WHITEMAN, FRED.
116. WINFIELD, SAMUEL
117. WINTER, JOHN
118. WOOD, PERCY
119. YATES, WILFRED ARTHUR
120. YEOMANS, MARK
121. [HARRISON, FRANCIS,] The name of Francis HARRISON appears to have been added later and subsequently partly erased.]

Smalley was mentioned in a Charter of 1009 by King Ethelred the Unready relating to a manor known as Westune.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry and Township in Morley parish in Derby county and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Smalley Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are Not staffed to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.
   
• In April, 1934, the Civil Parish was reduced by 77 acres to enlarge Stanley Civil Parish.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Smalley (Ilkeston court) petty session hearings.
   
• The Revrend Francis GISBORNE left an annual charity of £6 10s in 1817 to buy clothing for the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

A school was erected here in 1721, endowed by Samuel & John RICHARDSON with about £200 yearly to teach 36 poor boys.

A National (girls & infants) School was erected in 1848, for 70 girls & 50 infants.