Staveley, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STAVELEY (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 4¾ miles (N. E. by E.) from Chesterfield. containing, with the chapelry of Barlow. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.

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

Staveley St John the Baptist included the hamlets of Netherthorpe,Inkersall, Mastin Moor, Norbriggs, Poolsbrook and Woodthorpe. Chapels of ease opened at Woodthorpe in 1632 Poolsbrook in 1905 Mastin Moor 1914 and Inkersall in 1958.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 661 has deposited parish registers Bap 1558-1665, 1702-1978 Marr 1558-1665, 1702-1988 Bur 1558-1692, 1702-1991 Banns 1754-1813, 1940-1999

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1868 Mar 1662-1837 Burials 1662-1869

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * 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
Staveley on GENUKI