Parish/Chapelry:   Ashover

Adjoining Parishes: North Wingfield, Brackenfield, Crich, Cromford, Matlock, Tansley, Darley, Beeley, Chesterfield, Wingerworth

Dates of original CofE registers in the DRO:

All Saints, part Scarsdale Hundred, part Wirksworth Hundred, Chesterfield Union
baptisms: 1621-23, 1653-1965*
marriages: 1653-1661, 1664-1753, 1761-1967*
banns of marriage: 1823-1904, 1952-1972*
burials: 1653-1960*
(early registers burnt in Commonwealth)

Church records for other religions:

Uppertown, Wesleyan Methodist, built 1868
baptisms:  1951-1960 (DRO)

Rattle then The Moor, Wesleyan Methodist, rebuilt 1872, closed 1974
baptisms: 1884-1971 (DRO)
marriages: 1931-1971 (DRO)

Methodist, formerly Clay Cross United Free Methodist, b ca 1856
baptisms:  1872-1914, 1927-1943 (DRO)*
 

Dates of local marriage indexes: 1642-1837

Date of copies of registers at Soc. Gen.: 1642-1888

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 (date may vary)
 

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last updated January 31, 2005