South Wingfield, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WINGFIELD, SOUTH (All Saints), an ancient parish, in the union of Belper, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 2¼ miles (W.) from Alfreton. Other places in the parish include: Oakerthorpe. .

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

South Wingfield St Mark

Derbyshire Record Office reference D639 has deposited registers Bap 1585-1979 Mar 1585-1974 Burial 1585-1974 Banns 1754-1812, 1824-1906 There is also a transcript of burials 1971-1974 at the Record Office.

Wingfield Park a private burial ground within the parish

Derbyshire Record Office reference D639 has deposited registers Burial 1879-1929

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1661-1874 Mar 1661-1837 Burials 1661-1874 Missing Bap/Bur 1841-1842

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

Poor Law Unions
Belper 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
South Wingfield on GENUKI