Whitwell, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

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

Parish History
WHITWELL, a village and a parish in the district of Worksop and county of Derby.

WHITWELL (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Worksop, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 10¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Chesterfield.

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.

For history of civil registration in this area see Worksop Registration District

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

Whitwell St Lawrence is an ancient parish which includes the hamlets of part of Cresswell, Hodthorpe and Steetley. Derbyshire Record Office reference D 705 has deposited registers Bap 1672- 1985 Mar 1682-1991Burial 1672-1992 Banns 1754-1774, 1906-1934, 1955-1991

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1668-1868 Mar 1668-1859 Burials 1668-1868 Transcript for all event in 1813 is missing

Poor Law Unions
Worksop 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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