Sources in Derbyshire (General)

by ChrisW , Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 10:08 (6106 days ago) @ priest

Derbyshire County Council www.derbyshire.gov.uk

Family history resources

Sources connected with major events

Family historians usually want to find out all they can about the major events in their ancestors' lives. Information about births, marriages and deaths can be found in Derbyshire Local Studies Library.

Here is a list of the most important resources we have to help you.

Civil Registration Indexes to Births, Marriages, Deaths: 1837-2001

Overseas Indexes, including Boer War, World War I and World War II deaths. We have a complete set of these.

Boyds Marriage Index, Derbyshire

Published Parish Register copies and indexes: including the Phillimore series for Derbyshire and some for surrounding counties.

Lambeth Palace Marriage Licence Indexes, 1543-1850.

A few Nonconformist and Roman Catholic Registers.

Lists of Strays. These are Derbyshire people who got born, married or died away from their home parish.

Monumental Inscriptions from churchyards and cemeteries: Derbyshire plus surrounding counties, particularly Nottinghamshire and Cheshire.

Wills indexes and copies.

Mining Deaths: 1850 to 1914 (indexes to HM Inspectors of Mines reports)

Newspapers - unindexed except for Derbyshire Times: Births, Marriages, Deaths indexed from 1981 onward and 1880 to 1894, 1900 to 1914, 1918 to 1919

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Ilkeston & District Local History Society www.ilkestonhistory.org.uk

Lists churches in the area.

1881 Census living at Stanley
Local Church St Andrew's (photo on their site)

St.Bartholomew - Hallam Fields Road.
Designed by Currey of Derby in the Early English style, St.Bartholomews was built in 1895 to serve the needs of some 1000 people living at Hallam Fields, most of who worked at the Stanton Iron Works. Its predecessor had been a temporary iron church, built in 1880 and later re-erected at Station Road.
The church was consecrated in 1896 by the Bishop Suffragan of Derby and served the community until its closure in 1969.
(Photograph - Stephen Flinders)