Bolsover, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bolsover St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Glapwell, Glopwell, Ockley, Oxcroft, Shottlewood, Shuttlewood, Stanfree, Whaley, Woodhouse, and Woodside.

BOLSOVER (St. Mary), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Chesterfield, 28½ (N. N. E.) from Derby, and 145½ (N. by W.) from London with the hamlets of Glapwell, Ockley, Whaley, Oxcroft, Stanfree, Shuttlewood, Woodside, and Woodhouse. This place, was called Belesoure prior to the Conquest. The Wesleyans and Independents have places of worship; that belonging to the latter was formerly a Presbyterian chapel. .

Cemetery
Whaley Thomas - St. Luke's. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions of Whaley Thomas - St Lukes, in the District of Bolsover, dating from 1881. There are two inscriptions on each side of the Altar, carved in wood, remembering those killed in action in 1914-1918, and 1939-1945 World Wars. Article to be found in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 93, pages 29-42, Family History Library Ref 942.52 D25n

Church records
Bolsover parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Records are also available at the Derbyshire Record Office.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Roman Catholic
 * Wesleyan Methodist.

Civil Registrationa
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.

Registration District

 * Chester

Poor Law Unions
Chesterfield 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
Bolsover on GENUKI