Pleasley, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

Parish History
Pleasley St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Stoney Houghton and Houghton Stoney.

PLEASELEY (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 3½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Mansfield; containing, with the chapelry of Shirebrook and the hamlet of Stoney-Houghton. There is a chapel of ease at Shirebrook.

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.

This area was in the Mansfield registration district from 1837; for registration district history Mansfield registration district

Church records
Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1665-1868 Mar 1665-1837 Burials 1665-1868 Missing Bap &amp; Bur 1842-1843, 1845-1856

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts 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

Census records
See Derbyshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Mansfield Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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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