Ashover, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

Guide to Ashover, Derbyshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.



Parish History
Ashover is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Doehole.

ASHOVER (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Chesterfield, partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, but chiefly in that of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 7 miles (S. S. W.) from Chesterfield, Containing, with the chapelry of Dethwick-Lea, and the hamlet of Holloway. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.

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

Ashover All Saints parish includes Dethick Lea and Halloway, Derbyshire until 1901. The registers of this parish include baptisms from Dethick chapel 1754-1847 and also two marriages in 1757.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D253 has deposited registers Bap 1621-1623, 1653-1925 Mar 1653-1998 Burials 1653-1668, 1671-1990 Banns 1653-1661, 1823-1904, 1952-1972

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1667-1853 Mar 1667-1845 Burials 1667-1853

To find the names of neighbouring parishes, use 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

 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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.

Registration District

 * Chesterfield

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