Dalbury with Lees

Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of the church and graveyard at All Saints on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2014..

John CLEGG also has a photograph of some gravestones at Dalbury on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007.

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 1960
1891	R.G. 12 / 2197

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church Is described as an "ancient edifice of stone in the Later English style."
   
• One stained glass window which display a figure of st. Michael is reportedly from the 13th century.
   
• The church seats 129.
   
• Mike BARDILL has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2006.
   
• There is a mission chapel at Lees that seats 70..
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1545 for all entries.
   
• The Family History Library has the parish registers for 1545 thru 1982 on microfilm. They also have the Bishop's transcripts for 1676 thru 1874.
   
• Louis MILLS has provided a partial extract of Parish Register Burials. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here before 1891.

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

"DALBURY, (or Dalbury with Lees) a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Burton-on-Trent, the same distance S.W. of Derby, and 3½ N. of Egginton station."

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

The Radbourne Brook flows through the parish.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The transcription of the section for Dalbury from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.
   
• And we have the transcription of the section for Dalbury from "Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland" in 1891 at the Andrews pages.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Dalbury with Lees to another place.

• A popular spot for swapping local history tales is The Black Cow pub. in Lees.
   
• Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of The Black Cow Public House on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   
• These are the names associated with The Black Cow in various directories:
   

Year	Person
1857	John NEAL, vict.
1874	John NEAL, v.
1899	John WAINWRIGHT, farmer
1912	Horace CHEEATHAM

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK264344 (Lat/Lon: 52.90639, -1.608923), Dalbury with Lees 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.

• "Dalbury" is from the Old Norse deity named "Delingr." The village is referred to twice in the 1086 Domesday Book; once as Delbebi, and once as Dellingeberie.

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Dalbury Lees Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings every Friday.
   
• There is an index of Dalbury Bastardy Lees Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Dalbury" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• The Family History Library has the Churchwardens Accounts for 1852 thru 1916.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish joined the Burtton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

By 1912 the parish had a Public Elementary Scholl (mixed) for 43 children.

Michael SPENCER provides the Dalbury Land Tax List for 1810 and 1821.