Derby St Alkmund, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Derby St Alkmund is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Little Chester. The town of Derby comprises the parishes of All Saints, St. Werburgh, St. Alkmund, St. Peter, and St. Michael. The old church of St. Alkmund's was taken down, and a new one commenced in the beginning of 1844 on an enlarged scale. The chapelries of Little Eaton and Darley are in this parish, though without the limits of the borough; and a church district named St. Paul's was endowed in St. Alkmund's in 1844 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

Derby township was comprised by 1880, of the following associated parishes, chapels and chapelries:


 * All Saints - 1558
 * Codnor Chapelry - 1843 (partly in Heanor and Pentrich par.)
 * St Alkmund - 1538
 * Darley-Abbey Chapelry - by 1819
 * Little Eaton Chapelry - 1738
 * St Paul's Chapelry - 1844
 * St Michael's - 1559
 * Alvaston - 1614
 * St Peter - 1558
 * Boulton Chapelry - 1662
 * Litchurch Chapel - 1863
 * Normanton Chapelry - 1840
 *   St Andrews Chapelry- 1864
 * St James the Great Chapelry - 1867
 * Trinity Church - 1836
 * St Werburgh - 1562
 *   Christ Church - 1850
 * St John Chapelry - by 1870
 * St Luke - 1868

There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans (New and Old Connexion), New Jerusalemite, Presbyterian, Swedenborgians, and Unitarians; and a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1839. The Roman Catholics have also built a handsome structure as a residence for the Sisters of Mercy, and for a chapel and schools. A general cemetery was opened in 1843.

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
Derby St Alkmund 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

 * Baptist
 * General Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Derby, but the exact parish has not been identified:


 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Methodist New Connexion

Poor Law Unions
Derby 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
Derby St Alkmund on GENUKI