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Wikipedia tells us:

"Smalley is a village on the main A608 Heanor to Derby road in Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 2,784."

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Archives & Libraries

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.

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Bibliography

  • 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.
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Cemeteries

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Census

  • The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1861R.G. 9 / 2508
1891R.G. 12 / 2742
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Church History

  • 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.
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Church Records

  • 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.
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Civil Registration

  • 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.
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Description & Travel

"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.

You can see pictures of Smalley which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

  • 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.

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History

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

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

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Maps

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

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Military History

  • 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.
     
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Military Records

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.]
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Names, Geographical

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

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Politics & Government

  • 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.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • 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.
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Schools

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.