Descriptions of parishes and lists of tradesmen et al. extracted from various 19th and 20th Century Trade Directories & Gazetteers, transcribed by Brett Payne.
Glover 1829  Glover 1833  Pigot 1835Bagshaw 1846  Slater 1850White 1857Harrison 1860  Wright 1874Kelly 1881Kelly 1887  Kelly 1895Kelly 1912Kelly 1932

Bishop's Transcripts, 1661-1856
The Bishops' Transcripts, held at Lichfield Joint Records Office, have also beeen filmed:

Baptisms, marriages and burials 1661-1810	FHL BRITISH Film 422194 Item 1
Baptisms, marriages and burials 1813-1856	FHL BRITISH Film 497396 Item 1

Marriages at Chellaston, 1570-1812
Also on microfilm:

Marriages at Chellaston, 1570-1812

FHL BRITISH Film 496693 Item 6

Chellaston Marriage Index (1570-1812)
Janice Hargreaves has produced a Marriage Index for Chellaston covering the period 1570-1812, which can be found on her web site.
Index to Grooms  Index to Brides

Cemetery and Burial Records of Chellaston, Derbyshire, 1934-1997
These have filmed by the LDS church, details as follows:

Register of burials, 1934-1969.  Register of graves, 1934-1997.

VAULT BRITISH Film 2094164 Items 5 - 6

• Monumental Inscriptions of St. Peter’s Churchyard (not including church and cemetery) by Kath Marvill, Chellaston History Group 1985/6.

• Monumental Inscriptions in St Peter's Church extracted from Glover, 1829

 
• Surname Index to Monumental Inscriptions - Compiled by Brett Payne.

• 1662 Hearth Tax Assessments for Chellaston.  Reproduced here by kind permission of Philip Riden, Secretary of the Derbyshire Record Society (DRS).  The DRS published a full transcript of the "Derbyshire Hearth Tax Assessments 1662-70", edited by David G. Edwards, in 1982, now sadly out of print.  I'm very grateful to Sonia Addis-Smith, who kindly provided me with a copy of the relevant section of this transcript.
• List of Tenants of Sir John Harpur in Chellaston for the years 1698-1700 - Extracted from A History of Chellaston.
• Land Tax Assessment 1799 - Extracted from A History of Chellaston.

The following Chellaston census records have been transcribed by and are reproduced on this web site by kind courtesy of the Chellaston History Group.  Formatting and indexing have been done by Brett Payne.  N.B. The transcript files are slightly larger than usual for this web site, so may take a little longer than normal to load. Please be patient.

1851 Census  Full Transcript  (86kB) Surname Index

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1861 Census  Full Transcript  (94kB) Surname Index

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1871 Census  Full Transcript  (101kB) Surname Index

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1881 Census  Full Transcript  (83kB) Surname Index

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1891 Census  Full Transcript  (91kB) Surname Index

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1901 Census  Full Transcript  (124kB) Surname Index

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In Celerdestune, Ulsi had four ox-gangs of land to be taxed.  Land to half a plough.  It is waste.  There are four acres of meadow, value in King Edward’s time 12s. now 3s.  Almaric holds it.  In Cellesdune, Osmund had four ox-gangs of land, and a third part of one ox-gang to be taxed.  Land to six oxen.  He himself holds it under the king, and has there three villanes with half a plough and two acres and a half of meadow.  Wood-pasture, three quarentens long and two broad.  Value in king Edward’s time 10s. now 5s.  In Celardestune was one carucate and a half of land, soke to Mileburn.  Domesday Book. 293, 311, 327.
Part of the manor of Chellaston was held under the crown, and part under Henry de Ferrers after the Conquest.  In the reign of Henry III. Robert, the son of Engelaramus de Nottingham held lands here, as did William de Chelardeston, 31 Edward I. [1302] who married Jean, granddaughter and heir of Nicholas Musard, baron of Crich.  In 19 Edward II. [1325] it appears that John de Combewell, co. Nottingham, and Idonea, his wife, claimed William Chelardeston’s lands, Joan, his wife’s lands, here and elsewhere.  Idonea, we suppose, was daughter and heir to Chelardeston.  King John granted to Hugh de Beauchamp the manor of Melbourn, together with a carucate of land thereto belonging, at Chellaston, which land the said Hugh gave, in marriage with his daughter, to William Fitz Geoffrey.  In 4 Edward I. [1275] William de Frescheville held two-thirds and William de Bredon one-third of the said land, which was then said to be in the wapentake of Litchurch.  In 36 Henry III. [1251] that king granted to Ralph de Frescheville free warren in several manors, and amongst them that of Chellaston is included.  Witnesses to this charter are Roger de Lokington, Ralf de Bakepuize, &c.  In 1307, Robert de Holland had a grant of the manor of Chellaston.  In 1499, William Ashby, esq. died, and left this manor to his son William, under the honour of Tutbury.  About this time and before, the Dean and Canons of the Newark College, in Leicester, held lands here, which was probably given to them by the founder, Henry, Duke of Lancaster, about the middle of the reign of Edward III.  After the dissolution of the abbeys, 32 Henry VIII. [1544] Christopher Hunt, esq. was possessed of it, and left it to his son Thomas.  In 2 Edward VI. [1548] Rowland Babington, esq. held lands here, under the honour of Tutbury, which he left to his grandson Francis, as did Sir Henry Sacheverell, who dying, 5 or 6 Philip and Mary, left his estates to his son John.  In 16 Elizabeth [1573], Sir Richard Harpur, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench held lands here, and left them to his son John, which lands are still in the possession of their descendant, Sir George Crewe, bart.  The Earl of Huntingdon sold the manor-house and a considerable estate to a family of the name Whinyates, who afterwards re-sold it in parcels ; when the manor-house and about 80 acres of land became the property of Mr. Wright.  Mr. Orton, of Derby, having purchased the same from the Wright family, says that the Earl of Huntingdon conveyed the manorial rights with the estate ; that he is in possession of the original deeds to that effect, and he considers himself clearly entitled to the manorial rights.  The Marquess of Hastings still enjoys them, by inheritance from the Earls of Huntingdon.

'Ceolh(e)ard's farm', v. tun.  The form Ceoleardesbeorge 'Ceolh(e)ard's hill', v. beorg appears in the bounds of Weston upon Trent and is almost certainly Chellaston Hill.

CHELLASTON HILL (6"), 1836 O, v. Chellaston supra.
THE GREEN (6"), the Green 1580 Lanc, v. grene.
HALL LANE (6"), cf. Halleflate 13th Dale, v. hall, flat.
NEWTON COTTAGE (6"), cf. Reginald Newton 1543 SR.
SHELTON LOCK, Sheldon Wharf 1836 O.
SNELLSMOOR LANE (6"), Snellesmere, Swellesmar' 13th Dale, perhaps 'Snell's pool', v. mere.
WESTHILL HO (6"), Westhul 13th ib, v. west, hyll.

FIELD NAMES

The principal forms in (a) are 1791 EnclA; all others are Dale except where noted.

(a) the Acres; Backside; Bandlands (v. bean, land); Barley Croft; Bonehills; Bootmoor Hedge; Booton Field; Bradmoor (Brademer 13th, v. brad, mere); Bull Furlong; Burne; Church Balk; Cliff Furlong (cf. Redeclif 13th, v. read, clif); Crown Lands; Dumelows Leys; Dykes; Elder Stubbs (probably le Elrinestub Hy 3 Darley, v. elren, stubb); Fellow Lands; Fisher Pitts; Flatts; Foremans Flatt; Groves Nook; Headlands (v. heafod-land); Henshaws Croft; Hill Nook; Hollymoor; Holme (v. holmr); Hunger Hill (v. hungor, hyll); Jack o'th Ruley; Mill Moor Baulk; Nether Side (v. neodera, side); Newgate; New Taken In; Nothills; Park Nook; Pikes Lands; Pinchern Roods; Pingreaves Nook (cf. Pingreave Close 1690 DbAns xxiii); Rewley Flatt; Rushy Carr Close; Rye Butts; Sandy Hills; Shoots (v. sceat); Slade Lands; Small Meer Close; Stadmoor Flatts; Stubble Close; Thulstone Furlong (Thurleston forlong' 13th, named from Thulston supra 462); Townsend (Attetounesende de Chelardeston 1377 Cor (p), v. tun, ende); Tumbling Croft; Tuphurst (to be identified with Tuphall Close 1690 DbAns xxiii); Under the Cliff; Walker Yard; Water Galls (v. waeter, galla); Water Rundle (v. waeter, rynel); Weedy Beds; Wet Pool; Wet Thurrows; Whittinglands; Windmill Hill; Wren Park (v. infra 758).

(b) Glerynsonb' 13th; Longhol' 13th (v. lang, hol); Meruinesflat' 13th ('Merewine's division in the common field', v. flat); Middilbothin (sic) 13th (v.middel, botm); Otehul 13th (v. ate, hyll); Wyteleyes Hy 3 (v.hwit, laes). 

Alabaster: A history of the gypsum industries of Chellaston, Derbyshire,1820-1904, by John Young
Published by Derbyshire Museum Service, c1990 (Nottingham : Barnes & Humby Ltd.) 68 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ISBN/ISSN  090675318X

Published by the Chellaston History Group, and available for purchase from the Derbyshire Family History Society.
A CHELLASTON MAN'S JOURNAL - From late 18th to early 19th C
AN INTRO. TO THE HISTORY OF CHELLASTON & ITS CHURCH
CHELLASTON THEN & NOW - comparison photos
CHELLASTON RECOLLECTIONS - old photos of the village

Also published by the Chellaston History Group (print status unknown), A History of Chellaston (1988), with the following contents:

• Introduction - 1000 Years of History (J.A. Young)
• Chellaston as a member of Melbourne Manor (H. Usher)
• Chellaston's Medieval Alabaster (H. Usher)
• Tithes of Chellaston (J.A. Young)
• Chellaston Manor House (C.S. & H. Usher)
• Chellaston Manor (J.A. Young)
• Crisis & Transition in Chellaston (J.A. Young)
• Chellaston Enclosure Awards of 1804 (K. Brown)
• The Public Houses of Chellaston (J.R. & A.E. Hilliard)
• Chellaston's Plaster Industry (J.A. Young)
• Chellaston's Alabaster from the 18th Century (J.A. Young)
• Prosperity and Poverty (J.A. Young)
• 19th Century Methodism in Chellaston (M.J. Taylor)
• Railway Activity in Chellaston (T. Farnsworth)
• Chellaston Parish Council (1894-1934) (J.R. Hilliard)
• Chellaston Brickworks (T. Farnsworth)
• The Church Institute & Sunday School (A. Haywood)
• Chellaston Crown Green Bowling (J.A. Young)
• Chellaston Womens Institute (D. Silverwood)
• A Latter Day Robin Hood (J.A. Young)
• From Village to Suburb (J.A. Young)

• Recent Photographs of Chellaston St Peters by Katy Standish
  
• Scans of Old Postcards of Chellaston kindly provided by Kath Marvill

• CLEWS and LOWE by Carol Standish
• FEARN and TOMLINSON of Church Gresley, Measham & Chellaston - by Jennifer Fearn