Morton, Derbyshire Genealogy
Guide to Morton, Derbyshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Morton, Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Morton Holy Cross Derbyshire | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Scarsdale |
| County | Derbyshire |
| Poor Law Union | Chesterfield |
| Registration District | Chesterfield |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1575 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1669 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Alfreton |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Derbyshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
MORTON (Holy Cross), an ancient parish, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 3½ miles (N.) from Alfreton with the township of Brackenfield. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Morton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:
| FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers |
| Morton Holy Cross (1575) Parish Online Records | ||||||
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| FS PR's | 1577-1887 |
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1575-1892 |
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1576-1896 |
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Morton Holy Cross had a chapelry which became Brackenfield, Derbyshire parish in 1844
Derbyshire Record Office reference D886 has deposited registers Bap 1577-1973 Mar 1575-1984 Burials 1576- 1959 Banns 1754-1812, 1824-1942, 1958-1979
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Primitive Methodist
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Chesterfield Poor Law Union, Derbyshire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Derbyshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Morton on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 345-350. Date accessed: 13 May 2013.
