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This message was updated on 11/11/2006 1:32:46 PM by tempus275

 St Michael vs St Lawrence
replied on: 11/11/2006 1:12:33 PM
Sorry about the delay in response, had a holiday and put the archives to one side for the duration.

Thanks Jennypeg - we have a number of the parish magazines that say the same thing, the vicars at the time were quite adamant that the church at the time was St Lawrence and always had been.

RMMee, in answer to you question the earliest that I am aware of that directly calls it St Lawrence's is from the Victorian rebuild, however all the very early documents are under the protection of the County archive service and I am having some difficulties in getting them to send me copies as Matlock is quite difficult to get to with work. Hopefully they will be able to copy the churchwarden account books soon as they should shed some light on the matter.

As far as the OS map is concerned I think they were working from documents for the name of the church, ditto with Cox's book. If I am correct it is a problem with the name "Heanor" causing the problem, however I am waiting for some more information from Litchfield and Derby as well as Matlock before I can be 100% certain.

One of the main problems is that the early records will be unliky to name the church as it would have been the only one, it is far more common for them to say, the church at Heanor, the church at Ilkeston. Even if the Churchwarden account books don't name the church they may refer to the wakes festival.. if they were celebrating in August then we know they were keeping it at St Lawrence’s day, if its at another time of year then they are celebrating St Michael.

I'll update once I've got some responses (and hopefully photocopies) from the archives.
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