Sandiacre, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire



Parish History
Sandiacre St Giles is an Ancient parish.

SANDIACRE (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 9½ miles (E.) from Derby; containing 996 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the river Erewash, and on the road from Derby to Nottingham; and comprises an area of about 1100 acres, chiefly arable and pasture, with a very small portion of woodland. The village is in a valley, nearly surrounded with hills; the inhabitants are partly employed in a starch manufactory, and in the manufacture of lace by power-looms. The Erewash and Derby canal, communicating with the Grand Junction line, passes through the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Prebendary of Sandiacre in the Cathedral of Lichfield; net income, £120. The church, which is noticed in the Domesday survey, and is of great antiquity, now exhibits an admixture of various styles, the decorated predominating: it is on an eminence, and forms a conspicuous feature in the landscape. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 15-20. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51255 Date accessed: 15 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.

Sandiacre registration transferred to the Ilkeston district from 1 April 1938

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
The township of Risley, Derbyshire was partially included in Sandiacre until about 1868.Long Eaton, Derbyshire St John received a small part of this parish in 1929.

Sandiacre St Giles suffered loss by fire of its early register 1581-1710. In order to search for marriages consult Phillimore (Volume 1) for marriages 1581-1710.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1242 has deposited registers Bap 1711-1973 Mar 1711-1970,1989-2007 Burials 1711-1935 Banns 1823-1888,1938-1950,1954-1965,1968-1977

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1869 Mar 1662-1836 Burials 1662-1869

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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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