Wilne Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Wilne is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1822 from Sawley Ancient Parish. 

Alternative names: Great Wilne, Wilne with Draycott

Other places in the parish include: Draycott, Draycott and Church Wilne, Hopwell, Little Wilne, and Church Wilne. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1540
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1675

Separate registers exist for Draycott

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1804

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

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Church Wilne

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WILNE, a liberty and a parish in Shardlow district, Derbyshire. The liberty lies on the river Derwent, 1¼ mile SE of Draycott r. station, and 7 ESE of Derby; and bears the name of Church-Wilne or Little Wilne. Pop., 140. Houses, 30. The parish contains also Hopwell hamlet, Draycott liberty, which has a post-office under Derby, Breaston chapelry, which has a postal pillar-box under Derby, and Risley chapelry, which has a post-office under Nottingham. Acres, 8,500. Rated property, £7,573. Pop., 2,095. Houses, 460. The property is much subdivided. Hopwell Hall, Draycott Hall, Draycott House, Draycott Field House, and Risley Hall are chief residences.

There are cotton and lace manufactories. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of L. The church is ancient. The rectories of Breaston and Risley are a conjoint separate charge. There are two Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £378 a year, and charities £27.

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

Great Wilne

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WILNE (Great), a township in Ashton-upon-Trent parish, Derby; ½ mile S of Church-Wilne. Pop., 263.

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

Parish Registers

Wilne Marriages 1540 to 1837 Derbyshire Parish Registers Marriages. General Editor Thos. M. Blagg, F.S.A., Edited by LL. Lloyd Simpson. V. 13 London: Issued to the subscribers by Phillimore & Co 124 Chancery Lane. 1914. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

The Parish of Wilne originally contained the townships of Church Wilne or Little Wilne, Great Wilne, Draycott, Hopwell, and parts of Risley and Breaston, and the Registers contain a great many marriages from these places, as also from the neighbouring village of Sawley.

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Robert Soare & Dorothy Roobotham, of Wilne 28 Oct. 1704Aston-upon-Trent
William Kirke, of Wilne, & Mary Adkin 29 Jan. 1707Aston-upon-Trent
William Porter, of Draycott, & Anne Smedly, of Shardlow 19 Jan. 1709Aston-upon-Trent
Robert Porter, of Wilne, & Hester Stevenson 14 Feb. 1769Aston-upon-Trent
Mr. William Evans, of Draycote-field, p. Wilne, & Mrs. Sarah Burgin, lic. 28 Sep. 1769Aston-upon-Trent
Thomas Thacker, of Wilne, co. Derby, miller and a minor (with the consent of his lawful and natural father, Joseph Thacker), & Elizabeth Moorley, lic. 13 Dec. 1795Aston-upon-Trent

Administration

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