Killamarsh, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Killamarsh is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1843 from chapelry in Eckington, Derbyshire Ancient Parish.

KILLAMARSH (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 9 miles (N. E.) from Chesterfield.

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
Killamarsh chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Killamarsh St Giles

Derbyshire Record Office reference D3370 has deposited registers Bap 1638-1985 Mar 1639-1979 Burials 1639-1970 Banns 1754-1808, 1891-1909

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

Non Conformist Churches
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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
Killamarsh on GENUKI