Stony Middleton, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire



Parish History
Stoney Middleton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1743 from chapelry in Hathersage, Derbyshire Ancient Parish.

MIDDLETON, STONY, a chapelry, in the parish of Hathersage, union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 5½ miles (N. by E.) from Bakewell; containing 532 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; income, £88; patron, the Vicar of Hathersage. The chapel, dedicated to St. Martin, was rebuilt in 1759, in the form of an octagon. There is a place of worship for Unitarians. A considerable quantity of limestone is burnt for manure.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 310-313. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51149 Date accessed: 04 April 2011.

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
Stony Middleton St Martin originally a parochial chapely in Hathersage, Derbyshire parish. Part of the parish of Eyam, Derbyshire was attached to this parish in 1936.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D1455 has deposited parish registers Bap 1715-1878 Marr 1715-1750, 1759-1947 Bur 1715-1862 Banns 1761-1763,1792-1813, 1888-1941

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1856 Mar 1662-1836 Burials 1662-1856

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Census records
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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.

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Web sites
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