Stanley, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire

Parish History
Stanley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1828 from chapelry in Spondon, Derbyshire Ancient Parish.

STANLEY (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Appletree, though locally in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Derby; containing 368 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £64; patron, Sir Henry Wilmot, Bart.; impropriator, R. Bateman, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land in 1792.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 183-186. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51297 Date accessed: 10 April 2011.

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
Stanley St Andrew was originally a chapelry in Spondon, Derbyshire parish. The parish includes a mission church at Stanley Common.

Fire destroyed a burial register for 1812-1901

Derbyshire Record Office reference D3209 has deposited registers Bap 1675-1942 Mar 1754-1959 Burials 1678-1812, 1901-1992 Banns 1926-1979

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Census records
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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.

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Web sites
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