Morton, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MORTON (Holy Cross), an ancient parish, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 3½ miles (N.) from Alfreton with the township of Brackenfield.

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

Morton Holy Cross had a chapelry which became Brackenfield, Derbyshire parish in 1844

Derbyshire Record Office reference D886 has deposited registers Bap 1577-1973 Mar 1575-1984 Burials 1576- 1959 Banns 1754-1812, 1824-1942, 1958-1979

Non-Conformist Churches
Primitive Methodist
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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
Morton on GENUKI