Derbyshire

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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

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Records Office Lookup Contacts

• Derbys R/O, MATLOCK. Fortnightly Tatty Bear

'County Record Office Address

Derbyshire Record Office

County Hall

Matlock

Derbyshire

DE4 3AG

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

Links

General

• County Records Office
• Library links
• Local History Gateway Pages
• South Derbyshire Freepages
• North West Derbyshire Links
• UK Genealogy-Links - Derbyshire
• Heanor & District Local History
• Winster Family Trees
• South Derbyshire Genealogy Pages
• A Miscellany of Genealogical Links relating to Derbyshire
• Coal and Ironstone mining in North Derbyshire
• You and Yesterday Derbys Bygones

Local History Society

• Derbyshire Family History Society
• Chesterfield & District FHS
• Heanor & District Local History

OPC

Archives

• IGI Derbyshire A-M
• IGI Derbyshire N-Z
• Glossop Directories
• Matlock Registers
• South Derbyshire BDM
• Some Derbyshire Parish Records
• The Andrews Pages : Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891
• White’s 1857 Directory of Derbyshire
• Parish Records for the Repton and Gresley Hundred, South Derbyshire
• Derby Gaol-Crime and Punishment, Details of the prisoners and their crimes

Family and social history

• Derbyshire Workhouses
• Yestersdays Journey

Maps & Photographs

• Derbyshire Genmaps
• Images of Derby Derbyshire old and new
• A Directory of 19th and early 20th Century Derbyshire Photographers Useful for dating old photographs
• Some Early photographers from Matlock and Matlock Bath
• Victorian Photgrapraphy and Photographers From Bath and Matlock Bath

Countywide interest

• You and Yesterday ~ Derbyshire’s past
• Derbyshire War Memorials ~ Sherwood Forresters
• Derbyshire Heritage and Museums
• Derbyshire Churches and Chapels

Specific Town Village interest

• Ashover
• Ashover - some Parish Records
• Brassington
• Brimington - Includes some Parish Records
• Brimington,Chesterfield
• Familia Site
• Clay Cross - Genealogy and Local History
• Clay Cross
• Clowne Village
• Crich Parish
• Dethick, Lea & Holloway
• Glossop Heritage Centre,High Peak, Glossop, Derbyshire
• Glossop
• Window Tax for the parish of Glossop
• Hartshorne
• Hognaston
• Hope Valley
• Great Hucklow
• Litttle Hucklow
• Matlock and Matlock Bath
• Mellor
• New Mills Genealogy Pages
• Ridgeway Village
• Rosliston Village
• Taddington and Priestcliffe
• Whitwell History Society
• Wirksworth ~ 420,000 records

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