West Hallam, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HALLAM (WEST), (St.Wilfrid) a parish in Shardlow district, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Derby,Derbyshire.

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.

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); West Hallam transferred to the Ilkeston Reistration District on 1 April 1938

Church Records
West Halam parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1224 has deposited registers Bap 1538-1984 Mar 1630-1687, 1693-1983 Burials 1623-1975, 1993 Banns 1745-1797, 1813, 1823-1976

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1813-1857Mar 1813-1857Burials 1813-1857 Missing 1820 for Bap, Mar, Bur

Non-Conformist Churches
Wesleyan Methodist
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Shardlow 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
West Hallam on GENUKI