Stapenhill

Your best bet is to use the Burton-on-Trent Public Library at Riverside, off High Street. Check their collection of local newspapers.

Alternatively, the Library at Swadlincote is an excellent resource.

• A Saxon Cemetery was discovered near Stanton Road in 1881.
   
• The Stapenhill Cemetery is just north of the village.
   
• John BERESFORD has a photograph of the Stapenhill Cemetery Gate on Geo-graph, taken in August 2005.

• The parish was in the Burton upon Trent 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 Peter.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1830 (or 1838, sources vary) on the site of an older, ruinous church.
   
• The church was rebuilt again in 1880-1881.
   
• The church seats 850.
   
• John BERESFORD has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August 2005.

• The church register dates from 1679.
   
• Michael SPENCER has collected an extract of Stapenhill burials from the parish register for your review. Your additions and additions are welcomed.
   
• You might look for your relatives in the Parish register on Brett PAYNE's Freepages site.
   
• In 1911, the parish contained chapels for Wesleyan Methodists, United Methodists and Primitive Methodists.

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

"STAPENHILL is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley; the village being about 2 miles S.W. from Burton-upon-Trent. The parish, in which are coal mines, is bounded on the west by the river Trent. The church is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the gift of the Marquess of Anglesey; the incumbent is the Rev. Henry Des Voeux, and his curate the Rev. Joseph Clay. A charity school has been erected by the last-named rev. gentleman, and is supported by his munificence, and that of the Miss Clays'. The parish contained, in 1831, 1,926 inhabitants, & the township 572 of that number."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Stapenhill had a ferry across the Trent River. The village sits on the South-east bank of the River Trent.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Which residents are listed in Stapenhill in 1827-29? Look at the list extracted from from Glover's Directory of the County of Derby 1827-29 on Brett Payne's website.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Stapenhill entry under Church Gresley from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Stapenhill entry under "Out of County" from Kelly's Directory of Directory for Derbyshire, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Stapenhill entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831. 
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Stapenhill from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

The parish land was mostly in pasture even as late as 1911.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK262211 (Lat/Lon: 52.786912, -1.612392), Stapenhill 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.

• Alf BEARD has a photograph of the Stapenhill Remembrance Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.

There is a War Memorial in Saint Peter's church. The inscription reads:

Remember before God/our brothers who laid down/their lives for us/1914 - 1918/
L L Robinson/R Matthews/W H Atkin/B Felgate/T Brennan/E Bentley/W H
Bates/J Warren/F J Kellam/J Webster/G H Rowley/A Freeman/F Holmes/W L Holly/
F Lake/S Bould/J Rulter/A R Thornley/A C Smith/W Rawlins/E Clarke/J Fenton/
C W Herbinson/A S Wood/A Watkins Williams/A Tomlinson/A Johnson/J W Parker/
C J Poynter/J D Ashford/G A Adams/H L B Williams/F Bracey/F J Hooper/J W Cornes/
T & J Higginson/M & W Holland/W Witherow/S Woodward/A Evershed/C Gilbert/
W Stockwell/J A Marshall/J Jaques/S Watson/T Bircher/W A Brown/A & J Haynes/F W Sant/
L Kent/S Clare/A Adams/P Peach/W Timms/J W Gough/A Bird/H Adams/P Scott/
A J Ross/H Tubey/S Wilkinson/D L Williams/J W Fairhead/E Thompson/A J Chapman/
C C Thompson/E Chamberlain/R Mackenzie/H S & W Morris/F Holloway/G Alesbrook/
G H Barnett/E W Morley/J R Mead/W J Pritchard/H Wilson/J A Walters/H Beltany/
E W Wright/T A Wilson/T Aldridge/J Clarke/W H Smith/S Francis/L Hartshorn/
A & P Hook/H Roome/H Simnett/T Gadsby/H Dyer/J & F Mewies/W Brightman/
R H & T Adcock/J R Appleby/J H Holliday/G W Docker/W A & F L & T M Glover/C Manning/
W Burton/A Dulton/F Bailey/A J Coombey/L Dunwell/G H Willis/L A Bucknall/J Burton/
G E Spencer/J & S Upton/L W Eley/L W Wheway/L Potts/G Dunn/F Lewis/W Tack/
T Eaves/E Noble/W Cook/H J Tait/J Lucas/G Mills.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish included the townships of Stapenhill, Caldwell and Stanton and Newhall. Caldwell split off and became a separate Civil Parish.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Reton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In March, 1904, this Civil Parish was abolished and the parish amalgamated into Burton upon Trent Civil Parish.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty seeesion hearings every other Tuesday
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

Stapenhill had a mixed school erected in 1875 for 399 boys, 232 girls and 261 infants.

Stapenhill also had a Mission Room School for girls and infants.