Darley, Derbyshire Genealogy

Guide to Darley, Derbyshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
DARLEY (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Bakewell, partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, but chiefly in that of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 3 miles (N. W.) from Matlock with the townships of Wensley and Snitterton in the hamlet of Darley-Dale.

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
Darley Dale parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Darley St Helen The parish originally included township of Wensley with Snitterton which transferred to South Darley, Derbyshire in 1845 The hamlet of Little Rowsley transferred to Rowsley, Derbyshire parish in 1860

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1978 has deposited registers Bap 1569- 1998 Mar 1591-1994 Burial 1539-1992 Banns 1756-1791, 1823-1844, 1877-1900, 1910-1996

Poor Law Unions
Bakewell 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.

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

 * Darley Dale on GENUKI