Winshill

The Swadlincote Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

There is also a fine Library at Burton-upon-Trent just on the border with Winshill.

Oliver MILLS has a photograph of Stapenhill Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2016. The cemetery is just southwest of Winshill village.

Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mark.
   
• The church was built in 1869.
   
• Ray STEWARD has a striking photograph of St. Mark's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2004.

• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1845-46.
   

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

Jane TAYLOR of Redcar offers this clipping from the Derby Mercury of 12 January 1804: "QUARTER SESSIONS: John FELTHOUSE and John NEWHAM, for stealing horses gearing out of the stables belonging to Mr. Thomas HALLAM, of Winshill."

"WINSHILL, a township in the parish of Burton-upon-Trent, hundred of Repton and Gresley, county Derby, 1½ mile N.E. of Barton, near the river Trent."

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

You can check on current events in Winshill at the village website.

You will know that you are 124 miles from London when you see this Milestone as shown on Geo-graph, taken in 2009 by David ROGERS.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Which residents are listed in Winshill in 1827-29? Look at the list extracted from from Glover's Directory of the County of Derby 1827-29 on Brett Payne's website.
   
• There is a transcription of the Winshill entry under "Burton-on-Trent" in the White's Directory of Derbyshire (1857) (about 1/4 of the way down).
   
• Ann ANDREWS also provides a transcription of the Winshill entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

Extracted from George N. WRIGHT's "A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer, 1838":

WINSHILL, tnshp. England, par. Burton-upon-Trent, hund. Repton and Gresley, co. of Derby, Acres, 1,130. Real prop. £2.313. Pop. 342.

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

Vice-Admiral Thomas Erskine WARDLE CB, DSO (1877–1944) a senior officer in the Royal Navy, the Rear-Admiral Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet 1924-1926

Paddy CONSIDINE (born 1973) English actor, filmmaker, and musician. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council estate in Winshill

• The village is first recorded by name in 1000 AD.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Burton on Trent (contains information about Winshill) by Barbarann AYARS.
   
• Richard LAW has a photograph of the Waterloo Pub on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2014.
   
• David ROGERS has a photograph of The Sump Pub on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2009.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK272237 (Lat/Lon: 52.810111, -1.598529), Winshill 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 local hero from World War One was William COLTMAN who received the Victoria Cross for gallantry. John BERESFORD has a photograph of the information plaque in the Coltman Peace Wood on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

Vice-Admiral Thomas Erskine WARDLE CB, DSO (1877–1944) a senior officer in the Royal Navy, the Rear-Admiral Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet 1924-1926 is from this parish.

Inside Saint Mark's Church there is a large alabaster tablet with an incised inscription. The body of the tablet contains three arched panels separated by slender columns containing the names of the fallen in gilt. The arches contain carved emblems of the Navy, an emblematic ship, the cross and palms symbolic of victory, and a laurel wreath with crossed rifles and steel helmet of the Military forces. There are 94 names of people who served and died, who were from this parish.

From the War Memorial panel in St. Mark's Church:

1. Astle, Percy
2. Atkins, Wilfred
3. Ballenger, George T.
4. Bate (corporal), John
5. Bentley, Arthur W.
6. Bentley (sergeant), Alfred W.
7. Bott, Eli
8. Bridges, John
9. Brookes, Basil O.
10. Broster, Sidney A.
11. Brown, Alfred H.
12. Brown, Harry
13. Brown, William A.
14. Bryan, John F.
15. Butcher, Arthur
16. Chadfield, John
17. Christlelow, John R.n.
18. Cliff, Arthur J.
19. Cliff, Jack
20. Cliff, Percival C.
21. Coates, Charles J.
22. Coates, Edward A.
23. Cockle, Walter H.
24. Cornwell (sergeant), James H.
25. Croad, Percy
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The name Winshill has its origin in Old English and means Wine's hill.

Flanked to the north and east by the South Derbyshire border, historically the parish of Winshill had always been part of Derbyshire until it was transferred to Staffordshire in the 1904.

• This place was a township in the parish of Burton-upon-Trent in Derby county and was incorporated as a seperate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Winshill Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to help you with family history searches.
   
• This parish was abolished in March, 1904, and absorbed into Burton-on-Trent Civil Parish in Staffordshire.

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

Out of Door Poor from Burton Board of Guardians Year Book 1899.

Place, name, age, residence, cause, relief paid

1. Winshill, Mary AULT, 37, 21 East St, widow and family, 14/4/-,
2. Winshill, Frederick GEE, 18, Newton Rd, deaf and dumb, 2/-/-,
3. Winshill, Sarah SHREEVE, 69, 35 Newton Rd, infirmity, 9/- all or part of relief to be repaid
4. Winshill, William HARWOOD, 61, 107 Churchill Terrace, illness, 6/10/-

Almshouses were built in Hawfield Lane in 1887, endowed by William WARDLE.

Almshouse were built on Wheatley Lane in 1925, endowed by Harriet Walton JEFFORD.

Mentioned in a Will of 1861: #322 Joseph FOWKE of Sutton on the Hill, mentions;

• Elizabeth MEESOM witness wife of George of Winshill

Mentioned in a Will of 1865: #112 John Sanders FARMER, Brewer's Clerk, of Winshill, mentions;

• friend Arthur COXON Burton upon Trent, brewer's clerk
• friend Richard MASSET Burton upon Trent, brewers clerk
• Mary Ann JONES Burton ?
• sister Sarah FARMER
• sister Barbara NORMAN
• Henry GOODGER Solr Burton upon Trent witness
• James PEACE Clerk witness

Mentioned in a Will of 1865 (made in 1860) : #126 Anne Elizabeth WILSON of Winshill, widow, mentions;

• late husband Joseph
• John Sharpe POTTER Winshill miller
• bro. Francis POTTER
• Edward B. JENNINGS Solr, Burton
• John LOUD 18 Stanley Street, Burton

Mentioned in a Will of 1870: #70 Robert GRACE of Winshill, architect, mentions;

• grand daughter Elizabeth Ann WOODWARD
• Robert RATCLIFF Scalpcliffe ? House, p. Stapenhill
• William John DREWRY Burton upon Trent
• brother John, Fenton, Staffs, schoolmaster
• grandson Charles WOODWARD
• wife Susanna
• dau. Mary Ann WOODWARD
• grand daughter Susan WOODWARD
• grand daughter Maria WOODWARD
• grand daughter Ann WOODWARD
• Ann WOODWARD
• Ellen WOODWARD
• John NEWBOLD Clerk to J DREWRY Solr Burton on Trent witness
• Fred S. DREWRY witness.

Mentioned in a Will of 1876 (Will made in 1862): #149 William MEAR of Winshill, late of Stapenhill, yeoman, mentions;

• brother Joseph of Tatenhill, Stafs
• wife Sarah
• son William
• Jno. A. COPSON Clerk to Messrs BASS and JENNINGS
• J. M. YATES Solr Burton on Trent
• J. FIRTH Solr Burton on Trent
• H. F. BAILEY Slor Burton on Trent

In 1846 a small National school was built by subscription. It was used on Sundays as a chapel of Ease for Holy Trinity Church in Burton-on-Trent.

In 1921 the Board of Education purchased "The Woodlands" property to provide a new campus for Burton Girls High School. This became incorporated into the comprehensive Abbot Beyne School in 1975.