Sudbury

In 1912, the parish had a Library and Reading Room with 300 volumes.

Brian DEEGAN has a nice photograph of the churchyard at All Saints on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2018.

Malcolm NEAL also has a photograph of Sudbury Church churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2009. Take your time touring the gravestones.

• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoxeter Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2010
1861	R.G. 9 / 1957
1891	R.G. 12 / 2195

• A church is reported here in the 1086 Domesday survey.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints and is on the Main Road.
   
• The church has traces of a Saxon foundation, but the upper structure dates from the 12th century, but also includes work from the 14th and 15th centuries.
   
• The church was restored in 1872-75.
   
• The church seats 350.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• Alan WALKER has a good photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2004.
   
• Rod ALLDAY has a good photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2018.
   
• Alexander P. KAPP has a photograph of the other end of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2010.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1673 for baptisms and burials and 1674 for marriages.
   
• Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoxeter Registration District.

In 1912, there were still remains here of the old village stocks.

HM Prison, Sudbury, was originally constructed as a hospital for the United States Air Force for the D-Day landings. In 1948, the hospital was adapted for use as a prison. In 2003, it was reported that 350 inmates had escaped from Sudbury Prison over the prior 5 years. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

"SUDBURY is a parish, containing a small and neat village, in the same hundred as the preceeding parishes; the village being situate 13 miles W. by S. from Derby, and 4 E. by S. from Doveridge. To the north-east of the village is Sudbury hall and park, the fine seat of Lord Vernon. The church, which is very old, stands in the garden near the hall, and being covered with ivy, presents a picturesque ornament in the scenery around it."

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

The parish is 135 miles north of the city of London, 5 miles east from Uttoxeter and 13 miles SW of the city of Derby. The 3,546 acres of the parish have been mostly pasturage. Aston is a hamlet a half mile east of the village, Hill Somesall 2.5 miles north-west, Oaks Green and Potter Somersal are all places in this parish.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Sudbury entry under Doveridge from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Sudbury entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

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

Eric MILLWARD reports that: Benjamin MILLWARD married Hannah RADFORD at Sudbury in 1820. The webpage author has been unable to verify this information.

• Oliver DIXON has a photograph of the Vernon Arms Public House on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2006.
   

Trevor HARRIS has a photograph of Sudbury Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2019. The Hall is a National Trust property.

Philip HALLING also has a photograph of Sudbury Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2018. The Hall was built 1660 thru 1680.

He also has another photograph showing the Hall, the fountain and two nicely-trimmed shrubs along the entrance-way.

And David DIXON has a photograph of the cantilever staircase, taken in September, 2015.

David DIXON also has a photograph of the servants' wing which now houses the National Trust Museum of Childhood. The photo, on Geo-graph, was taken in September, 2015.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK157321 (Lat/Lon: 52.886131, -1.768122), Sudbury 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.

The War Memorial is a pair of (apparently marble) plaques inside and above the church doors of All Saints Church.

During WWII a number of civilians from Manchester were evacuated to Sudbury for safety. One of them, Michael STOKES, designed and hand-made a set of stained glass panels which were presented to All Saints Church.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar shares this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 31 December 1801: "DIED: On Friday last, suddenly, aged 65, Mr. TOMLINSON, of Sudbury, in this county."

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 8 March 1804: "DIED: On the 27th ult. Ann WAIN, an infirm woman near 80, was unfortunately burned to death at Sudbury, in this county,-The accident was occasioned by her clothes taking fire, no person being with her at the time."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1934, this parish was reduced in size by 20 acres transferred to Doveridge Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the Sudbury Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to give you help with family history questions. In 2018, they were reconstructing the parish council website.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases were heard in the Sudbury petty session hearings (actually heard in Hatton parish) on the last Monday of each month.
   
• In 1830 the parish had several almshouses for the poor.
   
• With the passage of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Uttoxeter Poorlaw Union in Staffordshire.

In an 1861 Will (made in 1859), Elizabeth CHAWNER, spinster of Sudbury mentions:

1. brother Richard CHAWNER
2. brother Henry CHAWNER
3. sister Frances Elizabeth CHAWNER
4. neph. Frederick CHAWNER son of my bro. Henry
5. niece Frances Elizabeth WILLIAMS
6. sister Julia Raymond BARKER
7. sister Charlotte WILLIAMS
8. Louisa GARRETT witness
9. Caroline JACKSON witness
    

In an 1866 Will, William TURNER of Somershall House in parish Sudbury, farmer, mentions:

1. Nathaniel EDWARDS
2. John HULME
3. daughter Ellen Ann wife of Wm. Towers MINORS
4. daughter Eliza Jane TURNER
5. daughter Sarah TURNER
6. daughter Elizabeth TURNER
7. property at Marchington purchased from Mr James STANLEYS mortgagees
8. property at Marchington Woodlands purchased from Mr PICKERING
9. Charles Oughton WELBY Uttoxeter Clerk to Mr WELBY Solr Uttoxeter
10. Wm Smith COWLISHAW Clerk to Mr WELBY
11. Adlard WELBY
12. Reuben HAWTHORN Commissioner to Administer Oaths
     

In an 1875 Will, Robert Walker BRENTNALL of Sudbury mentions:

1. wife Sarah
2. property at Gedling, Notts.
3. Rev. Fredk ANSON
4. James VICKERSTAFF witness
5. Charles POTTS witness,
    

In 1917, the following created what we now call "War Wills" before going of to distant places:

• Ella BOTTRILL