Whitwell, Derbyshire Genealogy
Guide to Whitwell, Derbyshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Whitwell, Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Whitwell St Lawrence Derbyshire | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Scarsdale |
| County | Derbyshire |
| Poor Law Union | Worksop |
| Registration District | Worksop |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1672 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1668 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Staveley |
| 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]
WHITWELL, a village and a parish in the district of Worksop and county of Derby.[1]
WHITWELL (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Worksop, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 10¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Chesterfield. [2]
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.
For history of civil registration in this area see Worksop Registration District
Church records[edit | edit source]
Whitwell parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:
| FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers |
| Whitwell St laurence (1672) Parish Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PR's | 1672-1884 |
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1682-1896 |
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1672-1880 |
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Whitwell St Lawrence is an ancient parish which includes the hamlets of part of Cresswell, Hodthorpe and Steetley. Derbyshire Record Office reference D 705 has deposited registers Bap 1672- 1985 Mar 1682-1991Burial 1672-1992 Banns 1754-1774, 1906-1934, 1955-1991
Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1668-1868 Mar 1668-1859 Burials 1668-1868 Transcript for all event in 1813 is missing
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Wesleyan Methodist
Wesleyan Methodist Association
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]
Worksop Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire
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]
Whitwell on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales,, Publ. Lindon Edinburgh 1870. DAte accessed: 25 June 2013.
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 561-564. Date accessed: 10 June 2013.
