Shirland, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SHIRLAND (St. Leonard), an ancient parish, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Alfreton. Other places in the parish include: Hallfield and Higham.

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
Shirland parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1661-1868 Mar 1661-1844 Burials 1661-1868 Missing Bap/Bur 1853-1855, 1858-1864

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Chesterfield 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
Shirland on GENUKI