Cauldwell (Caldwell)

You will want to use the Swadlincote Public Library. It has a Family History section to help you with your search.

• The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
   
• A transcription of the 1891 census can be found on Ancestry.com.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 1962
1891	R.G. 12 / 2199

• It appears that there was a Christian church here before the Norman Conquest.
   
• The Chapel of Ease was a small structure with a tower and two bells.
   
• The chapel was dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The chapel was completely renovated in 1843.
   
• The chapel was restored in 1865.
   
• The chapel seats 80.
   
• John BERESFORD has a photograph of St. Giles' Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.

• Apparently the chapel was not licensed to perform marriages; those were performed at Stapenhill.
   
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1679 and is incorporated with that of Stapenhill.
   
• The Baptists had a small chapel here before 1857 which was still in operation in 1891.

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

"CAULDWELL, a hamlet in the parish of Stapenhill, hundred of Repton and Gresley, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the S. of Burton-on-Trent."

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

This place was a village, a township and a chapelry in Derby county. It covered 1,040 acres in 1857. Mark WALTON has a photograph of the village crossroads on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cauldwell (Caldwell) to another place.

Cauldwell Hall was the seat of Lieut.-Col. Charles MILLIGAN, J.P. in the late 1800s.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK255173 (Lat/Lon: 52.752717, -1.623634), Cauldwell (Caldwell) 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.

• This place was an ancient hamlet in Stapenhill parish in Derby county and it was made a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and instead hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty session 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.

Mark WALTON has a photograph of Pegasus School at Caldwell Hall on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.