Derby St Werburgh, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

Parish History
Derby St Werburgh is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Little Chester. The original church of St. Werburgh is supposed to have been built prior to the Conquest. Being situated near Mark-Eaton brook, its foundation was injured by occasional floods; so that in 1601 the tower fell, and within a century afterwards, the church having become ruinous, the present edifice was erected. There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans (New and Old Connexion), Swedenborgians, and Unitarians; and a Roman Catholic chapel,

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
DERBY, St Werburgh comprised the following chapels and chapelries (with links to the Family History Library Catalog and holdings at FamilySearch.org):


 * St Werburgh - 1562
 *   Christ Church - 1850
 * St John Chapelry - by 1870
 * St Luke - 1868

Other ecclesiastical parishes and their chapelries were associated with St Werburgh's by proximity and within the Derby parish boundary, as follows:


 * All Saints - 1558
 * Codnor Chapelry - 1843 (partly in Heanor and Pentrich par.)
 * St Alkmund - 1538
 * Darley-Abbey Chapelry - by 1819
 * Little Eaton Chapelry - 1738
 * St Paul's Chapelry - 1844
 * St Michael's - 1559
 * Alvaston - 1614
 * St Peter - 1558
 * Boulton Chapelry - 1662
 * Litchurch Chapel - 1863
 * Normanton Chapelry - 1840
 *   St Andrews Chapelry- 1864
 * St James the Great Chapelry - 1867
 * Trinity Church - 1836

There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans (New and Old Connexion), New Jerusalemite, Presbyterian, Swedenborgians, and Unitarians; and a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1839. The Roman Catholics have also built a handsome structure as a residence for the Sisters of Mercy, and for a chapel and schools. A general cemetery was opened in 1843.

Derby St Werburgh 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.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D1145 has deposited registers Bap 1562-1983 Mar 1562-1983 Burials 1562-1641, 1653-1855, 1878 Banns 1823-1869, 1879-1897, 1926-1984

Poor Law Unions
Derby 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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