Breaston Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Breaston is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1719 from a chapelry in Wilne chapelry in Sawley Ancient Parish. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1719
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1719

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Methodist New Connexion, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BREASTON, a chapelry in Wilne parish, Derbyshire; on the Derby canal and the Midland railway, ½ a mile NW of Sawley station, and 8 ESE of Derby. Post Town, Sawley, under Derby. Real property £3,593. Pop., 709. Houses, 160. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Risley, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £350. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, and charities £16.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Breaston Marriages 1719 to 1810 Derbyshire Parish Registers Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and R. Jowett Burton, M.A. (Rector of Hughley, Salop) V.1. London: Issued to the Subscriber by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane. 1906. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Shardlow
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Sawley
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Ockbrook
  • Poor Law Union: Shardlow
  • Hundred: Morleston and Litchurch
  • Province: Canterbury