Parish/Chapelry:  Ashbourne

Adjoining Parishes:  Bradley, Brailsford, Shirley, Osmaston, Edlaston, Snelston, Mayfield, Mapleton, Fenny Bentley, Kniveton, Atlow, Okeover

Dates of original CofE registers in the DRO:

St Oswald, part Wirksworth Hundred, part Appletree Hundred, part Morleston and Litchurch Hundred, Ashbourne Union
baptisms: 1538-1622, 1629-40, 1655-1884*
marriages: 1538-1622, 1629-40, 1655-1883*
banns of marriage: 1784-1853*
burials: 1538-1622, 1629-40, 1655-1882*

Records from churches of other religions:

St John, Buxton Road, Free Church of England untill 1883 when became a chapelry in the church of England, founded 1871
baptisms: 1858-1952 (DRO)*
marriages:  1867 (DRO)

Zion Congregational Chapel, Derby Road formerly New Road, Independent, later United Reformed Church, found 1787, rebuilt 1801
baptisms:  1787-1898 (DRO)*
marriages:  1854-60, 1867, 1874-98, 1929-58 (DRO)
burials:  1808-37, 1886-98 (DRO)*

Roman Catholic, All Saints, Bellevue Road, founded 1844, rebuilt 1887
baptisms:  1851-62, 1876-1908 (DRO)*
marriages:  1854-60, 1867, 1874-98, 1929-58
deaths:  1882-1976

Wesleyan Methodist, Church St, founded 1811, built 1889
births, baptisms: 1832-37 (DRO)*

Zion Chapel, St John Street later Derby Road, Presbyterian later 1801, Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, founded 17th century
births, baptisms:  1787-1889 (DRO)*
marriages:  1874-1958 (DRO)
burials:  1808-98 (DRO)*

Primitive Methodist, Ashbourne Circuit, Beulah Chapel, founded 1846, rebuilt 1894, closed 1965
baptisms:  1890-1975 (DRO)
marriages:  1960-65 (DRO)

Dates of Bishops Transcripts:  1662-64, 1677-1862 (LRO)

Dates of local marriage indexes: 1662-1837

Date of copies of registers at Soc. Gen.: 1539-1576

Dates of non-conformist records at P.R.O.: 1787-1837

Derbyshire Record Office, County Hall, Matock, DE4 3AG
Telephone:  01629 580000 ext 35202

Other records at DRO:

• Bishops' Transcipts, up to mid 19th century for Derbyshire at Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, Staffordshire, W13 6QG
• Marriage bonds and allegations, for Derbyshire at Lichfield Record Office
• Poor Law Records
• County and Derby borough Court Records
• Electoral registers, 1832 onwards
• Tithe Maps and apportionments, 19th century
• Taxation Records
• School Records
• Wills, indexed registers 1858-1928
• Cemetery records
• International Genealogical Index (IGI), name index with register up to 1900
• Church of England registers

Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, WS13 6QG
Telephone:  (+44) 01543-510720

The Public Record Office, at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
Telephone:  +44 (0) 20 8876 3444
 

Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Rd, London EC1M 7BA
Telephone:  (020) 7251 8799

* Also filmed by the LDS Family History Library (dates may vary)
 

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last updated February 09, 2007