Weston upon Trent

The nearby Derby City Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
   
• The church was restored in 1877.
   
• The church seats 350.
   
• There is a photograph of Weston on Trent Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1565 and until 1586 are on paper, then ensues a gap till 1610, except a few entries in 1605.
   
• Marriages at Weston-on-Trent, 1565-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007. This chapel was founded in 1846.
   
• Tim HEATON also has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2011.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of the Weston on Trent Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   

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

"WESTON-UPON-TRENT is a small parish, in the same hundred as Shardlow, the village being about two miles south from Aston, and four from Shardlow. The Trent & Mersey canal passes through the parish - which is in the honour of Tutbury. One mile hence is Donington park, one of the seats of the Marquess of Hastings. The church is dedicated to St. Mary: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. The parish contained at the last census (1831), 387 inhabitants, being an increase only of seven persons since the returns made thirty years before."

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

Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007. This is a good place for visitors to get a schedule of forth-coming events.

The parish is 128 miles north of London.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• A Description of Weston upon Trent has been transcribed by Heather FAULKES from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Weston upon Trent entry under Shardlow from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Weston upon Trent entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Weston upon Trent from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Weston upon Trent to another place.

The novelist Henrietta Dorothy EVERETT (1851-1923) lived in the Old Vicarage in the village and died there.

• In 1009 Æþelræd Unræd (King Ethelred the Unready) signed a charter at the Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Weston.
   
• In 1215, King John signed another charter concerning the ownership of Weston.
   
• In 1603, Weston-on-Trent was awarded by James I to Charles PAGET who also gave him a pension of £200 a year. This is unusual as the previous monarch had threatened to have him assassinated in France.
   
• In 1633 James I granted the manor of Weston on Trent to Antony ROPER.
   
• In September 1770, the canal which had been started by James BRINDLEY reached Weston where goods could be moved the short distance from the canal to the river and vice versa.

Weston Hall, built for the ROPER family in the 17th Century, is a Grade II* Listed Building with English Heritage.

The Francis FRITH website has several historic maps of Weston on Trent.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK404280 (Lat/Lon: 52.847994, -1.401569), Weston upon Trent 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.

Inside the church of St Mary The Virgin there is a First World War Memorial tablet mounted on the wall.

Also inside the church is metal-framed Roll of Honour that covers both World Wars.

Sapper George William PEARSON of the Royal Engineers died on 09 September 1940 and is buried in St. Mary's Churchyard.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 19 April 1804 MARRIED: On Monday at Weston-upon-Trent, in this county, by the Rev. George GREAVES, Mr. Thomas SALT, of Burton-upon-Trent, (eldest son of Thomas SALT, of Abbotts Bromley, in the county of Stafford, Esq.) to Miss DAWSON, only daughter of the Rev. Wm. DAWSON, of the former place.

• 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 Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the local Weston on Trent Parish Council at their Facebook page regarding civic or political issues. They are NOT funded to help you with family history searches. The Parish Council meets at the Village Hall.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Mrs. Ann HOLDEN left £60 in 1776, the interest of which went to the poor annually.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings every Friday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

The Public Elementary School (mixed) was built and opened in 1842. It was enlarged in 1911 to hold 60 children. The school moved to a new location in 2007

"Kingfishers" has a photograph of the Old School on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.