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Church Records information for Chesterfield and places above it in the hierarchy

Chesterfield

  • The first surviving Chesterfield Parish Register dates from November 1558 until March 1635, and a printed copy is available as two volumes of Derbyshire Record Society Publications.

    These two volumes are based on a typescript prepared in 1936-8 by Miss Mary WALTON, then archivist at Sheffield Central Library. The period she covered was up to 1600. The transcription project was continued in the 1960s, by Students at Sheffield University, and the combined transcripts, which continue until about 1800, are now lodged in the Derbyshire Record Office (information recorded in the first volume above).
     
  • Here is a list of Chesterfield Parish Registers available on Microfilm from LDS Family History Libraries. Film Numbers are reproduced on GENUKI by kind permission of the Genealogical Society of Utah.
     
    Parish registers, 1558-1971.Microfilm Number
    Baptisms, 1838-1886
    Marriages, 1854-1876    		1041032
    item 6-9.
    Marriages, 1876-1895
    Burials, 1839-1900    		1041033
    item 1-3
    Baptisms, marriages & burials, 1558-1672
    Marriages, 1653-1658
    Baptisms, marriages & burials, 1697-1812    		1752142
    item 3-8.
    Baptisms, marriages & burials, 1812; 1733-1788
    Baptisms, 1833-1855; 1878-1908    		1752143
    Marriages, 1754-18471752144
    Marriages, 1847-18741752145
    Marriages, 1874-19011752146
    Banns, 1830-1848
    Burials, 1813-1915, 1921
    Burials for St. Peter's Church, Calow, a
    chapelry in Chesterfield, 1872-1898    		1752147
    item 1-5
    Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1612-1760
    Baptisms, 1813-1833; 1856-1878    		1785838
    item 2-7.
    Burials, 1853-1921 (Includes burials for
    St. Peter's in Calow, 1872-1898.)
    Marriages, 1901-1917 (To 16 Apr. 1917.)    		2081283
    item 2-5.
    Marriages, 1917-1921 (from 21 Apr. 1917.)2081284
    item 1
    Marriages, 1921-1928 (18 June 1921-9 Apr. 1928)
    (2 registers).    		2103927
    item 14-15.
    Marriages, 1928-1971 (7 Apr. 1928-11 Dec. 1971)
    (4 registers).
    Baptisms, 1934-1945.    		2103928
     
    Bishop's transcripts, 1665-1883.Microfilm Number
    Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1665-18040422195
    Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1804 cont.-18100422196
    Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1813-18240497397
    Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1824 cont.-18350497398
    Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1835 cont.-1837
    Baptisms and burials, 1838-1855    		0498050
    Baptisms and burials, 1855 cont.-18830498051
  • "Parish Chest" Papers for Chesterfield include a thick-ish ledger for Chesterfield Union Poor Law - Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor, Audit of Accounts 23rd Jan 1845. The book contains details of land & property, acreage, rateable value, etc, and a list of Owners/Occupiers. My grateful thanks to Janet KIRK for this information, and for the list below.
  • Examples (in surname, forename order as per the original):

Drabble James

OwnerOccupier
Hancock CorneliusAnthony William
" "Anthony George
Drabble James (2 lots of land & a weighing machine) 
" "Brocklehurst William
Devonshire Duke ofBowring John
Drabble JamesBradshaw Luke
Hancock CorneliusCooper Joseph
Outram Collis SamDrabble Joseph
Drabble JamesDrabble James (Hollis property & land)

 

  • The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
     
  • The Catholic church of the Annunciation was erected in 1854-74 in Spencer Street.
     
  • The Unitarians had a chapel in Saltergate built in 1694 to hold 250.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Unitarian Chapel at Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
     
  • The Congregationalists built their chapel in 1822 in Soresby Street to hold 650.
     
  • David DIXON has a photograph of the Independent Chapel at Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.
     
  • The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1881 in Holywell Street.
     
  • The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in Saltergate built in 1795 and enlarged in 1822.
     
  • N. CHADWICK has a photograph of the Central Methodist Church on Saltergate at Geo-graph, taken in August, 2015.
     
  • The Quaker Meeting House in Saltergate was built in 1673 and enlarged in 1770.
     
  • The Baptist chapel was built in 1861 in Brewery Street held 310 people.  It replaced an earlier chapel abandoned by 1855.

 

Derbyshire

  • Searchable database of Phillimore's Parish Registers - Marriages, provided by Nigel BATTY-SMITH.
     
  • Searchable database of Derbyshire Marriage Index 1538-1837, provided by Sue BROWN. 1538-1812 about 95% of county covered, 1813-1837 - virtually complete coverage.
     
  • The searchable LDS website - IGI and Familysearch
    Note on using IGI Batch Numbers:
    It is not always easy to locate your ancestors in the IGI using the search mechanisms provided at the above LDS site. Manually typing the batch numbers into the IGI search screen can be tedious. Hugh Wallis has made an exhaustive search of the likely ranges of batch numbers and created a database of those numbers and the source records that they apply to. A very powerful feature included is a hotlink from each batch number to the actual search engine provided at the Family Search site, including the ability to enter the surname you are looking for. This makes it very easy to search all the batches for a particular geographic location using just the last name you are searching for - something that is not possible directly from the LDS site without doing a lot of typing. This is Hugh Wallis's site.
  • Search Derbyshire Record Office's archive collections online via their web-site at Record Office. Or download PDF documents to view offline - as well as providing essential background information for research, the guides also provides covering dates for Church of England, Non-Conformist, and Cemetery Registers held at the DRO.
     
  • A list of Stray Marriages in Winster (marriages where one or both parties were not of the parish) is available on Dawn Scotting's All Things Winster blogspot - parties are from all over Derbyshire.
     
  • The Society of Genealogists web site has a list of their holdings of Parish Register Copies for Derbyshire.
     
  • If you are looking for Methodist ancestors, start with a visit to The Methodist Heritage site.
     

England

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