Boyleston Genealogical Records
Boyleston Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Baptism records list the names of people's parents, their occupations, abode and other details.
Baptism registers are the primary source for birth documentation before 1837, though are relevant to the present. They record the date a child was baptised, their parents' names and more.
An index to 1,273,932 baptisms, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide parents' names, residences, occupations and occasionally other details.
A growing index of births registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
Boyleston Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A transcript of marriage registers, searchable by a name index. Details given on the bride and groom may include their age, father's name, marital status, residence and signature.
Marriage records from people who married at the church between 1735 and 1911.
An index to 638,203 marriages, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide parents' names, residences, occupations, ages and other details.
A growing index of marriages registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
Boyleston Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
An index of burials in the churchyard. These records essentially record deaths between 1734 and 1912.
An index to 837,905 burials, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide age, residence and occasionally other details.
A growing index of deaths registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
Covering around 70 Staffordshire parishes, these records essentially record deaths. The residence of the deceased is often given. Occasionally their age, occupation and names of relatives may be given.
Boyleston Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by hundred and settlement.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by hundred and settlement.
Transcriptions of hearth tax records for the county of Derbyshire.
Newspapers Covering Boyleston
A local paper including news from the Derby area, legal & governmental proceedings, family announcements, business notices, advertisements and more.
This fully searchable newspaper will provide a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Lichfield district. Includes family announcements.
A record of births, marriages, deaths, legal, political, organisation and other news from the Derby area. Original pages of the newspaper can be viewed and located by a full text search.
A regional newspaper including news from the Staffordshire district, business notices, family announcements, legal & governmental proceedings, advertisements and more.
A database allowing full text searches of a newspaper covering regional news, family announcements, obituaries, court proceedings, business notices and more in the Staffordshire area.
Boyleston Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
An index to wills, administrations and inventories proved by the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. Copies of wills can be ordered or viewed at the record office in Lichfield.
An index to wills, proved by the Derby Probate Registry. Index includes name, residence and year of probate. Contains entries for Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and other counties.
An index to estate administrations performed by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The index covers the southern two thirds of England & Wales, but may also contain entries for northerners.
An index to wills and administrations, largely for residents of Derbyshire.
Boyleston Immigration & Travel Records
A calendar to documents that granted a person settlement in a parish so long as they did not become a financial burden.
A calendar to documents detailing the removal of a person or family from one parish to another.
A calendar to documents detailing the transportation of people from Derbyshire to Australia.
A calendar to records detailing the transportation of people from Derbyshire to parts of the British Empire.
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
Boyleston Military Records
A detailed history of the home guard during World War II.
A searchable collection of documents, photographs, paintings and other images relating to the county of Staffordshire.
Articles relating to a Midlands infantry regiment and its predecessors
The names of Derbyshire militia-men who joined the regular Army in 1813.
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Derbyshire, with some service details.
Boyleston Court & Legal Records
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
An name index to photographs of prisoners in Stafford Gaol photo albums.
An index to comings and going in Staffordshire's civil workhouses. The index contains: name, age or year of birth, occupation and original parish.
An index to names occurring in quarter sessions' juror lists.
Boyleston Taxation Records
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by hundred and settlement.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by hundred and settlement.
Transcriptions of hearth tax records for the county of Derbyshire.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
Boyleston Land & Property Records
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
An English translation of Derbyshire domesday records. This transcripts details the county's landowners in 1086.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
Boyleston Directories & Gazetteers
An exhaustive gazetteer, containing details of settlement's history, governance, churches, postal services, public institutions and more. Also contains lists of residents with their occupation and address.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
Boyleston Cemeteries
Photographs and descriptions of Staffordshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Profiles of several hundred mausolea found in the British Isles.
Several thousand transcribed memorials remembering those connected with the nautical occupations.
Boyleston Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Boyleston Histories & Books
A collection of over 3,000 watercolours, drawings, sketches, engravings and lithographs depicting scenes in Staffordshire.
A topographical and historical survey of the county and its settlements.
A searchable collection of documents, photographs, paintings and other images relating to the county of Staffordshire.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Mostly modern photographs of churches of all denominations in Staffordshire.
Boyleston School & Education Records
A searchable collection of documents, photographs, paintings and other images relating to the county of Staffordshire.
Transcriptions of school registers, which may include date of birth, name of parent(s) or guardian(s), residence and other details.
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
Boyleston Occupation & Business Records
A searchable collection of documents, photographs, paintings and other images relating to the county of Staffordshire.
An index to records detailing every member of Staffordshire's police force. Original records contain many details, such as physical description, age, date of birth, previous occupations and career.
An index to a variety of records, particularly apprenticeship indentures issued by parish guardians. The index contains details on age, parish, occupation and master. Original documents will contain further details such as the name of the apprentice's father or guardian.
A directory of commercial photographers in Staffordshire.
Profiles of coal and metal mines in the Midlands region of England.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Boyleston
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Pedigrees of noble and gentry families from the county, including renderings of coats of arms.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Boyleston Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Pedigrees of noble and gentry families from the county, including renderings of coats of arms.
Photographs and descriptions of Staffordshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
Boyleston Church Records
The parish registers of Staffordshire are a collection of books essentially documenting births, marriages and deaths. Their records can assist tracing a family as far back as 1860.
A searchable collection of documents, photographs, paintings and other images relating to the county of Staffordshire.
Digital images of baptism, marriage and burial registers from Church of England places of worship in Staffordshire.
Mostly modern photographs of churches of all denominations in Staffordshire.
Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from around 70 parishes in Staffordshire.
Biographical Directories Covering Boyleston
A searchable directory of biographies depicting the leading residents of Staffordshire. Contains details on family relations, education, careers, hobbies and associations.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
Boyleston Maps
A large collection of maps, primarily depicting Stoke and its environs.
Digital images of maps covering the county.
A collection of digitalised maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
Boyleston Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
BOYLESTONE is a small parish and scattered village, 4 miles north-north-east from Sudbury station on the North Staffordshire railway, south from Ashborne and 13 west from Derby, in the Western division of the county, Appletree hundred, petty sessional division of Sudbury, Uttoxeter union and county court district, rural deanery of Longford, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone, erected in 1700, and consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a small western tower containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a brass to Roger Bickerstaff, 20 years rector of the parish: the east window is a memorial to Harriott, wife of the Rev. Tansley Hall M.A. late rector (1861—93), she died 29 April, 1883; in 1888 the chancel was restored and paved with tiles; and in 1895, memorial windows were placed in the chancel by the present rector to the Rev. Tansley Hall M.A. late rector, d. 20 Jan. 1893; and to Robert Fyson. and Maria his wife parents of the present rector: there are 200 sittings, 100 being free. The register dates from the year 1734. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £250, including 154 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1893 by the Rev. Nicholas Isaac Hill Fyson M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford, who is also rector of Barton Blount. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels here, the former built in 1809 and the latter in 1846. A few charities are distributed yearly in bread and clothing. Henry Jack Cumming esq. J.P. of 2 Cambridge square, London W, who is lord of the manor, Lord Vernon and the rector are the principal landowners. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 1,361 acres; rateable value, £2,126; the population in 1891 was 218.
Church National School (mixed), opened in 1845 far 80 children; average attendance, 39.
Most Common Surnames in Boyleston
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Appletree Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West | 25 | 1:9 | 5.40% | 166 |
| 2 | Morley | 14 | 1:15 | 2.11% | 103 |
| 3 | Smith | 10 | 1:21 | 0.12% | 1 |
| 3 | Adams | 10 | 1:21 | 1.18% | 67 |
| 5 | Cottrell | 8 | 1:27 | 22.22% | 1,669 |
| 5 | Milward | 8 | 1:27 | 3.39% | 364 |
| 7 | Hopkin | 7 | 1:31 | 14.58% | 1,383 |
| 8 | Tomlinson | 6 | 1:36 | 0.49% | 34 |
| 8 | Gilman | 6 | 1:36 | 5.04% | 693 |
| 10 | Shaw | 5 | 1:43 | 0.22% | 10 |
| 10 | Bale | 5 | 1:43 | 13.89% | 1,669 |
| 12 | Robinson | 4 | 1:54 | 0.19% | 13 |
| 12 | Bennett | 4 | 1:54 | 0.21% | 19 |
| 12 | Archer | 4 | 1:54 | 1.08% | 222 |
| 12 | Salt | 4 | 1:54 | 0.90% | 174 |
| 12 | Carrington | 4 | 1:54 | 1.28% | 264 |
| 12 | Yeomans | 4 | 1:54 | 0.85% | 161 |
| 12 | Tunstall | 4 | 1:54 | 9.76% | 1,527 |
| 12 | Nicklin | 4 | 1:54 | 16.67% | 2,181 |
| 12 | Astle | 4 | 1:54 | 1.47% | 312 |
| 12 | Titterton | 4 | 1:54 | 3.03% | 634 |
| 22 | Gould | 3 | 1:71 | 1.09% | 306 |
| 22 | Goodall | 3 | 1:71 | 0.67% | 172 |
| 22 | Wainwright | 3 | 1:71 | 1.18% | 339 |
| 22 | Moorcroft | 3 | 1:71 | 3.19% | 832 |
| 22 | Wheat | 3 | 1:71 | 5.17% | 1,210 |
| 27 | Hall | 2 | 1:107 | 0.08% | 6 |
| 27 | Slater | 2 | 1:107 | 0.16% | 33 |
| 27 | Whittaker | 2 | 1:107 | 0.58% | 237 |
| 27 | Nash | 2 | 1:107 | 1.50% | 631 |
| 27 | Lester | 2 | 1:107 | 1.43% | 595 |
| 27 | Cork | 2 | 1:107 | 33.33% | 5,875 |
| 27 | Bakewell | 2 | 1:107 | 2.06% | 813 |
| 27 | Oakden | 2 | 1:107 | 1.96% | 781 |
| 27 | Byfield | 2 | 1:107 | 100.00% | 10,119 |
| 27 | Langstone | 2 | 1:107 | 100.00% | 10,119 |
| 27 | Bramwood | 2 | 1:107 | 100.00% | 10,119 |
| 38 | Wood | 1 | 1:214 | 0.04% | 7 |
| 38 | Clark | 1 | 1:214 | 0.09% | 41 |
| 38 | Hughes | 1 | 1:214 | 0.30% | 241 |
| 38 | Turner | 1 | 1:214 | 0.04% | 9 |
| 38 | Martin | 1 | 1:214 | 0.10% | 52 |
| 38 | Harrison | 1 | 1:214 | 0.04% | 8 |
| 38 | Ward | 1 | 1:214 | 0.05% | 20 |
| 38 | Clarke | 1 | 1:214 | 0.07% | 28 |
| 38 | Parker | 1 | 1:214 | 0.10% | 51 |
| 38 | Knight | 1 | 1:214 | 0.24% | 186 |
| 38 | Fletcher | 1 | 1:214 | 0.05% | 18 |
| 38 | Williamson | 1 | 1:214 | 0.17% | 115 |
| 38 | Newman | 1 | 1:214 | 1.43% | 1,061 |
| 38 | Marsh | 1 | 1:214 | 0.18% | 128 |
| 38 | Glover | 1 | 1:214 | 0.43% | 366 |
| 38 | Bradbury | 1 | 1:214 | 0.14% | 87 |
| 38 | Croft | 1 | 1:214 | 3.57% | 1,974 |
| 38 | Beck | 1 | 1:214 | 0.82% | 675 |
| 38 | Bowers | 1 | 1:214 | 1.09% | 855 |
| 38 | Gamble | 1 | 1:214 | 0.48% | 409 |
| 38 | Redfern | 1 | 1:214 | 0.13% | 83 |
| 38 | Copeland | 1 | 1:214 | 1.54% | 1,112 |
| 38 | Bott | 1 | 1:214 | 1.08% | 840 |
| 38 | Coxon | 1 | 1:214 | 0.32% | 270 |
| 38 | Fearn | 1 | 1:214 | 0.12% | 71 |
| 38 | Hollingsworth | 1 | 1:214 | 0.86% | 704 |
| 38 | Shipton | 1 | 1:214 | 2.17% | 1,423 |
| 38 | Root | 1 | 1:214 | 20.00% | 6,679 |
| 38 | Cattermole | 1 | 1:214 | 100.00% | 11,796 |
| 38 | Askey | 1 | 1:214 | 2.94% | 1,738 |
| 38 | Wetton | 1 | 1:214 | 0.61% | 521 |
| 38 | Lounds | 1 | 1:214 | 4.00% | 2,116 |
| 38 | Tunicliff | 1 | 1:214 | 14.29% | 5,189 |