DESCRIPTION

(Reproduced in its original form with permission from the Vicar)

The village of Stanley lies 6 miles north-east of Derby and was once a coal mining village. The area has now been restored to agriculture and the spoil heaps have been landscaped.

The church of St. Andrew is small with a Norman door in the south wall, showing the existence of a church here in the 12th century. Before the Reformation it belonged to Dale Abbey. It was then granted to the Powtrell family. Later it became a chapel-of-ease to Spondon and remained so until 1852, when Stanley became a separate parish. The church has undergone several restorations and was partially rebuilt in 1875. The registers which are now deposited at the County Record Office, date as follows: Baptisms from 1675; Marriages from 1754 and Burials from 1678. There is also a transcript from the Bishops' Transcripts of Baptisms from 1662 to 1812 and Marriages from 1662 to 1821.

The earliest remaining memorial inside the church is to Sir John Bently and his family of Breadsall Priory, dated 1621. The earliest stone in the churchyard is that of Elizabeth Radford, wife of Thomas Radford and their daughter, who both died in 1733. Thomas died in 1755 and his tomb is next in line. Thomas was a tanner, of the family of Radfords who lived at Stanley Hall. It was at Stanley Hall where Martha Goddard, gr.granddaughter of the above Thomas, was murdered in 1843, her sister who lived with her was beaten, but survived. The three burglars who had broken into the residence were from Heage and were executed publicly by hanging, in March 1843 outside the County Gaol in Vernon Street, Derby.

A church was built at Stanley Common in 1913 and those memorials have also been recorded by the Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group. The names overleaf are from St. Andrew's, and we will be happy to give full details of specific memorials. Also, if any readers think they may have ancestors buried at Stanley Common, we shall be pleased to pass those details on too. See How to Contact Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group below.

LIST of SURNAMES from the Inscriptions

ARMISHAW	ARTHUR	ASHFORD	ASTILL	ATTENBOROUGH
BACON	BAGULEY	BAKER	BANCROFT	BARKER
BARKSBY	BARLOW	BARTON	BATEMAN	BENISTON
BENTLEY	BESTWICK	BINGHAM	BIRD	BLOOR
BOREBANK	BOSWORTH	BOWER	BRADSHAW	BRIGGS
BROWN	BUCKLAND	BULL	BULLOCK	BUNTING
BURTON	CANNER	CAPEWELL	CARLIN	CARRIER
CARRINGTON	CHAPMAN	CHILTON	CLARE	CLARK(E)
CLIFTON	CLOWES	COATS	COOK	COPE
COSTALL	COTTON	COWLEY	COXON	CRESSWELL
CROSS	CUTTLER	DANIEL	DARBYSHIRE	DAVI(E)S
DILK(E)S	DISNEY	DOUGLAS	DRAYCOTT	DUROW
ECOB	ELLICOCK	ELLICOTT	EVANS	FANCOURT
FAULKNER	FINNEY	FLANNIGAN	FLETCHER	FLINT
FORMAN	FREARSON	FROST	GIBBINS	GIBSON
GILBERT	GODBEHERE	GODSON	GOODALL	GREEN
GRIFFITHS	GROCOCK	GRUNDY	HALL	HALLAM
HAMBLETON	HAMILTON	HAMMOND	HAMPSON	HANCOCK
HAND	HANDRICK	HARRIS	HARRISON	HART
HARTSHORN	HARVEY	HASSALL	HAYDOCK	HAYNES
HEMSTOCK	HEWINS	HICKSON	HILL	HILL
HISSITT	HOBSON	HOLLOWAY	HOLMES	HORSLEY
HORT	HOULT	HUGGINS	HUNT	HUTCHINSON
INMAN	IVAS	JACKSON	JAMES	JEPHSON
JOHNSON	JONES	KAY	KEATS	KERRY
KING	KNOWLES	LAWN	LEACHER	LEE
LEESON	LONGDEN	LORD	LOVATT	MALES
MALLET	MALPASS	MANSFIELD	MARSON	MARTIN
MEE	MELLORS	MILNES	MOON	MORGAN
MOSLEY	MOSS	MURFIN	NEWTON	NICHOLSON
NIXON	OGDEN	OUTRAM	PALLETT	PARKIN
PARNHAM	PEPPER	PLATT	POTTER	PRINCE
PRITCHETT	PRRESSLAND	PURCELL	RADFORD	RAWLINGS
REDFERN	RICHARDSON	RIDGARD	RILEY	ROBERTS
ROBINSON	ROOME	ROWBOTTOM	RUSDEN	SANDERS
SARSON	SCATTERGOOD	SEALE	SELBY	SEVERN
SEYMOUR	SHAW	SIGLEY	SIMPKINS	SIMPSON
SLATER	SMALES	SMITH	SNAPE	SNEAP
SNOWDEN	SORESBY	STAFFORD	STARBUCK	STEADMAN
STEVENS	STEVENSON	STONE	SWAIN	SWINERTON
TALBOT	TAYLOR	THOMPSON	THORNLEY	TOMLINSON
TOWNSEND	TRUMAN	TUERLINCK	TURTON	UPTON
VARNHAM	WAIN	WALDROM	WALDRON	WALKER
WALTERS	WARREN	WATCHORN	WATSON	WEBSTER
WEST	WHEATLEY	WHITBY	WHITEHEAD	WHITEMAN
WHITTLE	WHOTTON	WILD	WILEMAN	WILIAMSON
WILLETTS	WILLIAMS	WINFIELD	WOOD	WOODS
WOODWARD	WOOLLEY	WRAY	YATES

MONUMENTAL MASONS

BAILEY	BERESFORD	GADSBY	GARRATT	HAWLEY
JOHNSON	MILLAR	PARSONS	ROBINSON	SMITH
TINKLER	WALKERDINE

Contacting Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group

• DARG's records are not for sale, nor available on computer, but we are very happy to answer enquiries by post. No charges are levied, but donations are always welcome, either from fellow enthusiasts, or from those who benefit from our services.

• We can supply full details of specific memorial inscriptions in churchyards and cemeteries or from parish registers, etc. by post, provided they are accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Overseas enquirers please note that foreign stamps cannot be used as return postage, therefore please include a donation (in sterling) to cover - at least - the cost of return postage.

• We do not have an email address. All communications MUST be by post or by telephone; however as indicated above, we cannot answer queries by post without the cost of return postage. A list of current UK postal charges is available on the Royal Mail website.
  • For postal enquiries please write to Winifred Waterall, 86 High Street, Loscoe, Heanor, Derbyshire DE75 7LF, UK. We are unable to accept foreign cheques, so all donations must be in sterling. Please make cheques payable to "Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group" ("DARG" alone in not acceptable at our Bank) - thank you.

  • For telephone enquiries on Library holdings please call Margaret Brooksbank, telephone 01773 604916.

• Note: our offer of searches is restricted to our own transcripts and other material in our own Library (as listed on these pages). It does NOT extend to collections elsewhere.