Scarcliffe, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

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

Parish History
SCARCLIFFE (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Mansfield.

Scarcliffe St Leonard is an Ancient Parish.

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.

This area was in the Mansfield registration district from 1837; for registration district history Mansfield registration district

Church records
kScarcliffe parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1665-1868 Mar 1665-1835 Burials 1665-1865 Missing Bap/Bur 1836, 1853/1854

Census records
See Derbyshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Mansfield Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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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