Melbourne, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Melbourne St Michael with St Mary is an Ancient Parish; other places in the parish include Kings Newton.

MELBOURNE (St. Michael), a small town and a parish, in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Repton and Gresley, S. division of the county of Derby, 8 miles (S. S. E.) from Derby. There are places of worship for General Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Swedenborgians.

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.

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); 3A (1946-74).

Registers are now held at The Register Office, Royal Oak House, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AR. Tel: 01332 256526/35/36. Fax: 01332 256525. E-mail: registeroffice@derby.gov.uk

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

Melbourne St Michael with St Mary includes the hamlet of Kings Newton and Derby Hills, Derbyshire which was previously extra parochial.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 655 has deposited registers Bap 1652-1965 Mar 1653-1986 Burials 1653-1914 Banns 1754-1775,1824-1972

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Countess of Huntingdon Methodist
 * General Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Swedenborgian/New Jerusalem/New Church
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Shardlow 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
Melbourne on GENUKI