Newhall, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes  Newhall

Parish History
NEWHALL, a village and a chapelry in Stapenhill parish, Derby. The village stands near Swadlincote r.station, 1½ mile N W of the boundary with Leicester, and 3½ S E of Burton-upon-Trent; and has a post-office under Burton-upon-Trent. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and an infant school; and the last was built in 1864. .

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.

Staffordshire BMD includes registration at Burton upon Trent Registration District

Church records
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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Transcripts series may be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/parregs.htm from 1833.

Poor Law Unions
Burton upon Trent Poor Law Union,Staffordshire

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