Tideswell, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Tideswell, St John the Baptist, is an Ancient Parish. It is a market town in the county of Derbyshire. It is a sub-district, in Bakewell district. The parish contains also Litton and Litton with Wardlow Mires, Wheston and Whetston hamlets, and Wormhill township. The sub-district contains 10 townships, 2 lordships, 8 hamlets, and a chapelry (the p. curacy of Wormhill is a separate benefice). Tideswell is also partly in Chapel-en-le-Frith district. There are three dissenting chapels and a Roman Catholic chapel and a Methodist chapel is in Litton.

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

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1494 has deposited registers Bap 1635-1970 Mar 1635-1989 Burials 1635-1948 Banns 1754, 1766,1776,1869-1988

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1671-1871Mar 1671-1837 Burials 1671-1871 Missing1834-1836 all events; Bap/Bur 1839-1854

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Tideswell on GENUKI