Dale Abbey, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
DALE-ABBEY, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Derby. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.

Click here to read a description of Dale Abbey from John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72).

For historical information on Dale Abbey, go to the All Saints Dale Abbey website.

Census Records
The Derbyshire Family History Society has created surname indexes to the 1851 and 1891 censuses. The indexes are available at theFamily History Library.

Church Records
Dale Abbey parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Dale Abbey was originally a private peculiar owned by the Stanhope family. It was annexed to the parish of Stanton by Dale in the 1960s. The church is dedicated to All Saints and records date from 1667. The parish registers and chest records are deposited at the Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D1061 has deposited registers Bap 1668-1991 Mar 1667-1989 Burials 1668-1926 Banns 1825-1992

Records in the Family History Library Collection
The parish registers are not available on microfilm at the library, but have been published in Phillimore's parish register series. The earliest general register for 1667-1731 has also been transcribed and published by the Derbyshire Archaeological Society in of their;publications.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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.

From 1837 until 1938, Dale Abbey was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow registration district. For information on obtaining birth, marriage and death certificates from 1837 to the present, see the Wiki article on England Civil Registration.

Dale Abbey became part of the Ilkeston registration district on 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

Poor Law Unions
Shardlow Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Probate Jurisdiction
Dale Abbey had a manorial court with peculiar probate jursidiction over the estates of persons who resided there.

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
Dale Abbey on GENUKI