Winster, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

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

Parish History
WINSTER, a township-chapelry, with a small decayed town, in Youlgreave parish, Derbyshire. There are also two Methodist chapels.

WINSTER, a market-town andchapelry, in the parish of Youlgrave, union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 4½ miles (W. by N.) from Matlock, and 145 (N. N. W.) from London. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each 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
Winster parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Winster St John the Baptist formerly a chapelry of Youlgreave, Derbyshire became a parish in 1866.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D776 has deposited registers Bap 1674-1772, 1752-1900 Mar 1681-1742,1752-1980 Burial 1724-1742,1752-1946 Banns 1754-1783, 1853-1974

Transcript of the earliest year register for 1633-1672 which was missing for many years can be viewed on microfilm at the Derbyshire Record Office.

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1663-1877Mar 1663-1836 Burials 1663-1877 Damaged transcripts for 1813 Bap&amp; Bur 1837-1838,1853-1854, 1865, 1876

Poor Law Unions
Bakewell 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.

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