Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Map (source: Wikipedia)

Derbyshire

County town: Derby

Other major towns: Ilkeston, Chesterfield

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 changes over the years.

A summary of these can be found here.

A link to the Derbyshire Records Office in Matlock can be found here

Register Offices

• Certificate information
  
• Derbyshire County Council - Replacement certificates

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

Bakewell
Town Hall
Bakewell
DE45 1BW
Tel: 01629 812261
covers Bakewell registration district

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

Chesterfield
New Beetwell Street
Chesterfield
S40 1QJ
Tel: 01246 271405
covers Chesterfield registration district

Derby
Royal Oak House,
Market Place,
Derby
DE1 3AR
Tel: 01332 256526 or 256535 or 256536
covers South Derbyshire registration district

Ilkeston
87 Lord Haddon Road
Ilkeston
DE7 8AX
Tel: 0115 932 1014
covers Erewash registration district

Matlock
Firs Parade
Matlock
DE4 3AS
Tel 01629 582870

Swadlincote
Civic Way
Swadlincote
DE11 0AB
Tel: 01283 213976

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Records Office Lookup Contacts

• Derbys R/O, MATLOCK. Fortnightly Tatty Bear

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Aldercar St John's Just Mandy (SCHOOL HOLIDAYS ONLY)
• Codnor St James Just Mandy
• Darley Dale Methodist Tatty Bear
• Heanor St Lawrence Just Mandy
• Killamarsh Vicky the Viking
• Langley Mill St Andrew's Just Mandy
• Leabrooks Cemetary Tatty Bear
• Losco St Lukes Just Mandy
• Marlpool Cemetery Just Mandy
• St James Church, Riddings Tatty Bear
• St Helens, Darley Dale Tatty Bear
• Tideswell FintyLintyLulu
• Litton FintyLintyLulu

Photo Offers

Members who have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send the member a private message with your queries.

Links

Primary Reference Links

• Derbyshire Record Office

• Chesterfield & District Family History Society

• County Derbyshire - a GenWeb site

• Derbyshire Family History Society

• Derbyshire Libraries

• Derbyshire Look-up Exchange

• GENUKI Derbyshire

• IGI Derbyshire (A-M)

• IGI Derbyshire (N-Z)

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Coal and Ironstone Mining in North Derbyshire

• Old Stokie's Website - Lead Mining in Brassington

• Derby Assizes and Prisoners

• Derby Gaol - Crime & Punishment list of executed prisoners

• Derbyshire Churches and Chapels

• Derbyshire Directory - Local & Family History

• Derbyshire Genealogy at UKIsearch.com

• Derbyshire Lads at War: 1914-1918

• Derbyshire Museums and Heritage Centres

• Derbyshire Parish Records - UK Genealogy Archives

• Derbyshire Parishes, 1811

• Derbyshire Workhouses

• Familia - Derbyshire

• Jayne's North East Derbyshire Pages

• Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891

• Local History Gateway Pages

• North East Derbyshire

• North West Derbyshire Sources

• South Derbyshire Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages

• South Derbyshire Genealogy Pages

• UK Genealogy Links - Derbyshire

• White’s 1857 Directory of Derbyshire

• Yesterdays Journey names from Derbyshire documents

• You and Yesterday

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Ashover - A Guide for Genealogists

• Ashover, Belper Workhouse, Blackwell, Crich, Cromford, Morton, Riddings, Somercotes various census and parish records

• Belper Research

• Bonsall History Project

• Brassington - History of the Village

• The Parish of Brimington

• Carsington Parish Registers

• Carsington and Hopworth

• Clay Cross

• Clay Cross Genealogy and Local History

• The Yesteryears of Clowne

• Crich Parish

• Cutthorpe

• Derwent Valley Mills

• Dethick, Lea & Holloway

• Glossop Heritage Centre, Peak District, Derbyshire

• Glossop Page

• The Ancient Parish of Glossop including 19th and 20th century trade directories

• Window Tax for the Parish of Glossop, 1783

• Goodluck Lead Mine, Via Gellia, Derbyshire

• Great Hucklow

• Hartshorne on the Web

• Hasland

• Heanor & District Local History

• Hognaston

• Hope Valley

• Little Hucklow

• Kegworth

• Matlock and Matlock Bath

• Matlock's Church Records

• Mellor

• 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

• Shardlow Heritage Centre

• Smalley One Place Study

• Stanley One Place Study

• Staveley

• Taddington and Priestcliffe

• Tansley, Holy Trinity Church includes Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1840-1899

• Whitwell Local History Group

• Winster Ancestry

• Wirksworth Parish Records 1600-1900

Maps and Photographs

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

• GenMaps - Derbyshire Old Maps

• Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments

• Matlock and Matlock Bath Photographers

• Picture the Past - Images of Derbyshire

• Victorian Photography and Photographers in Matlock & Matlock Bath

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