Derbyshire

Situated in the East Midlands, Derbyshire is predominantly made up of small market towns, villages and rolling countryside, much of which makes up the Peak District National Park. The county has long been a favourite for city folk to visit, with many tourist attractions - the mines and caverns around the Castleton area, Eyam otherwise known as The Plague Village, Chatsworth House, and Bakewell for a traditional Bakewell Pudding, and Buxton - famous for its mineral water. Florence Nightingale was the daughter of a Derbyshire gentleman and although born in Florence she spent much of her early life at Lea Hirst, near Crich.

The county has undergone numerous boundary changes over the years. A summary of these can be found here. County town: Derby Other major towns: Ilkeston, Chesterfield, Belper, Ripley. Derbyshire Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Derbyshire Record Office

• Derbyshire Libraries

• Derbyshire Family History Society

• Derbyshire Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Derbyshire Assizes and Prisoners

• East Midlands General Baptist History

• Derby Gaol - Crime & Punishment

• Derbyshire Churches and Chapels

• White’s 1857 Directory of Derbyshire

• Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891

• Derbyshire Genealogy at UKIsearch.com

• Derbyshire Lads at War: 1914-1918

• Derbyshire Links

• Old Stokie's Website - Lead Mining in Brassington

• Derbyshire Museums and Heritage Centres

• Derbyshire Parishes, 1811

• Derbyshire Parish Records - UK Genealogy Archives

• Yesterdays Derbyshire Journey

• Jayne's North East Derbyshire Pages

• North East Derbyshire

• North West Derbyshire Sources

• South Derbyshire Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages

• South Derbyshire Genealogy Pages

• Bygone Derbyshire

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Alfreton History

• Ashover - A Guide for Genealogists

• Ashover, Belper Workhouse, Blackwell, Crich, Cromford, Morton, Riddings, Somercotes

• Belper Research

• Bonsall History Project

• Brassington - History of the Village

• The Parish of Brimington

• Carsington and Hopworth

• Carsington Parish Registers

• Cauldwell online Resources

• Chesterfield & District Family History Society

• Clay Cross

• Clay Cross Genealogy and Local History

• The Yesteryears of Clowne

• Codnor and District Local History and Heritage

• Crich Parish

• Cutthorpe

• Derwent Valley Mills

• Dethick, Lea & Holloway

• Eyam

• Glossop Heritage Centre, Peak District, Derbyshire

• Glossop Page

• The Ancient Parish of Glossop

• Window Tax for the Parish of Glossop, 1783

• Goodluck Lead Mine, Via Gellia, Derbyshire

• Hasland

• Great Hucklow

• Hartshorne on the Web

• Heanor & District Local History

• Heanor and Heage

• Hognaston

• Hope Valley

• Little Hucklow

• The Ilkeston and District Local History Society

• Kegworth

• Matlock and Matlock Bath

• Matlock's Church Records

• Mellor

• A Mellor Boyhood

• New Mills

• Newhall Resources

• Pentrich Historical Society

• Repton & Gresley Hundred, South Derbyshire - Parish Register Transcripts

• Repton Village History Group

• Ridgeway

• Rosliston - A One Village Genealogical Study

• Sandiacre History and Heritage

• Shardlow Heritage Centre

• Smalley One Place Study

• Stanley One Place Study

• Staveley

• Taddington and Priestcliffe

• Taghill

• Tansley, Holy Trinity Church, includes BMD's

• Whittington History Society

• Whitwell Local History Group

• Winster Ancestry

• Wirksworth Parish Records 1600-1900 and Wirksworth Area Census

Maps and Photographs

• GenMaps - Derbyshire Old Maps

• Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments

• Picture the Past - Images of Derbyshire

• 19th and 20th Century Photographers & Photographic Studios in Derbyshire

• Matlock and Matlock Bath Photographers

Register Office

• Derbyshire County Council - Replacement certificates

Ashbourne covers Ashbourne registration district

Ashbourne Town Hall
Market Place
Ashbourne
DE6 1ES
Tel: 01335 300575

Bakewell covers Bakewell registration district Town Hall

Bakewell
DE45 1BW
Tel: 01629 812261

Chapel en Le Frith covers High Peak Registration District

Superintendent Registrar's Office (for marriages and certificate requests)
Council Offices
Hayfield Road
Chapel-en-le-Frith
High Peak.
SK23 0QJ
Tel: 01663 750473

Chesterfield covers Chesterfield registration district

New Beetwell Street
Chesterfield
S40 1QJ
Tel: 01246 271405

Derby covers South Derbyshire registration district

Royal Oak House,
Market Place,
Derby
DE1 3AR
Tel: 01332 256526 or 256535 or 256536

Ilkeston covers Erewash registration district

87 Lord Haddon Road
Ilkeston
DE7 8AX
Tel: 0115 932 1014

Matlock

Firs Parade
Matlock
DE4 3AS
Tel 01629 582870

Swadlincote

Civic Way
Swadlincote
DE11 0AB
Tel: 01283 213976

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