Chesterfield Holy Trinity, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHESTERFIELD (All Saints), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby; comprising the incorporated market-town of Chesterfield, which has a separate jurisdiction, and the townships of Calow, Hasland,Newbold with Dunstan, Tapton, Temple-Normanton, and Walton. Portions of the hamlets of Walton and Newbold, and the contiguous parts of the parish of Brampton, have been consolidated as a district to the new church of St. Thomas, Brampton. In 1838, a church was built and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians.

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
Chesterfield Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Chesterfield Holy Trinity was originally a chapel of ease to Chesterfield, Derbyshire which was licensed for baptisms and burials in 1838 and became a district church in 1841 for the Newbold area. It was licensed for marriages in 1853 and created as a parish in 1867.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D935 has deposited registers Bap 1838-1983 Mar 1854-1978 Burials 1839-1900,1907-1940 Banns 1963-1989

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

Non-Conformist Churches
The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Chesterfield, but the exact parish has not been identified:
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images


 * Baptist
 * Presbyterian
 * Roman Catholic
 * Sandemanian
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Chesterfield on GENUKI