Ripley, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Ripley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1822 from chapelry in Pentrich, Derbyshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Hartshay, Marehay, Greenwich, Green Hillocks, and Butterley.

RIPLEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Pentrich, union of Belper, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 3¾ miles (S. by W.) from Alfreton, on the road to Derby. There are places of worship for 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
Ripley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap1821-1856 Mar none Burials 1821-1856 Missing Bap &amp; Bur 1855

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

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Baptist
 * General Baptist New Connexion
 * Independent/Congregationa
 * Presbyterian Unitarian
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Belper 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
Ripley on GENUKI