Milford, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Milford Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1846 from Belper, Derbyshire Ecclesiastical Parish and [uffield, Derbyshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Makeney.

MILFORD, a village and ecclesiastical district, in theparish of Duffield, union of Belper, hundred of Appletree, S. division of the county of Derby, 2 miles (S.) from Belper. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a place of worship.

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

To find the names of the neighbouring 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

 * General Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

Poor Law Unions
Belper 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
Milford on GENUKI