Unstone, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Unstone St Mary was originally a township in Dronfield, Derbyshire parish, built as a chapel of ease in 1920 and became a district church in 1925, but later reunited with Dronfield, 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.

Church records
Unstone St Mary was originally a township in Dronfield, Derbyshire parish, built as a chapel of ease in 1920 and became a district church in 1925, but later reunited with Dronfield, Derbyshire

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 3289 has deposited registers Mar 1925-1949

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

Poor Law Unions
See Dronfield, 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