Dronfield, Derbyshire Genealogy

Guide to Dronfield, Derbyshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
DRONFIELD (St. John the Baptist), a parish, partly in the union of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and partly in that of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 6 miles (S.) from Sheffield comprising the chapelries of Dore and Holmesfield, the townships of Coal-Aston, Dronfield, Totley, and Unstone, and the hamlet of Little Barlow. There are chapels at Dore and Holmesfield; also places of worship in the parish for Independents and Wesleyans.

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.

Church Records
Dronfield St John the Baptist parish includes Gosforth Valley Coal Aston and part of Little Barlow not incleded in Barlow, Derbyshire parish. Dore, Derbyshire was a chapelry until 1844 Holmesfield, Derbyshire until 1857.

Dronfield parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Derbyshire Record Office reference D2441 has deposited registers Bap 1560-1917 Mar 1560-1922 Burials 1560-1904 Banns 1754-1812, 1817-1820, 1848-1935, 1948-1998

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's transcripts Bap 167-1865 Marr 1670-1837 Bur 1670-1865 Missing Bap &amp; bur 1854-1861

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Chesterfield Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

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.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Dronfield on GENUKI