Osmaston by Ashbourne, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Osmaston by Ashbourne, St Martin, is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1849 from chapelry in Brailsford, Derbyshire Ancient Parish. The present church replaced an earlier church and was built in 1845 as part of the model estate village constructed in the 1850s by the owner of Osmaston Hall. The Wesleyan Methodists 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
Osmaston by Ashbourne parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1880 Mar 1662-1836 Burials 1662-1880

Non-Conformist Churches

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

Poor Law Unions
Ashbourne 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
Osmaston by Ashbourne on GENUKI