Dethick Lea and Halloway, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

Parish History
DETHWICK-LEA, a chapelry, in the parish of Ashover, union of Belper, hundred of Wirksworth, S. division of the county of Derby, 2 miles (S. E. by E.) from Matlock with the hamlet of Holloway. The joint township of Dethwick, Lea, and Holloway, comprises 2110 acres of land. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Unitarians.

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
Dethick Lea and Halloway 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.

Dethick Lea and Holloway St John the Baptist. Dethick and Lea were orignally a chapelry in Ashover, Derbyshire parish and Baptisms 1754-1847 will be found within the Ashover, Derbyshire parish register of baptisms. It became a separate parish in 1901 with the addition of Holloway part of Crich, Derbyshire Parish.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D3393 &amp; D 253 has deposited registers Bap 1754-1900 Mar 1757, 1899-2004 Burials 1911-2006 Banns 1899-1953

Census records
99

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.

Poor Law Unions
Belper Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

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
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