Bridge Hill, Derbyshire Genealogy
Guide to Bridge Hill, Derbyshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Bridge Hill, Derbyshire | |
---|---|
Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Appletree |
County | Derbyshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Belper |
Registration District | Belper |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1846 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Duffield |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Derbyshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
BRIDGE-HILL, an ecclesiastical district, in the townships of Duffield and Belper, parish and union of Duffield, hundred of Appletree, S. division of the county of Derby. It embraces all that part of the town of Belper which lies west of the Midland railway. Within the district are places of worship for Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, and Plymouth Brethren. [1]
Resources
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Church records
Bridge Hill is an ecclesiastical district. For church records see surrounding parishes.
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non Conformist Churches
- Baptists
- Wesleyan Methodists
- Methodists of the New Connexion
- Plymouth Brethren
Civil Registration
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.
Registration District
- Belper
Poor Law Unions
Belper Poor Law Union, Derbyshire Genealogy
Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
Reference
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 362-369. Date accessed: 29 April 2013.