Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Kirk Hallam is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire.Other places in the parish include: Mapperley.

HALLAM, KIRK (All Saints), a parish, partly in the union of Belper, hundred of Appletree, and partly in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 8¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Derby with the township of Mapperly.

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.

Kirk Hallam became part of Ilkeston registration district in 1934

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); 3A (1946-74).

Registers are now held at The Register Office, Royal Oak House, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AR. Tel: 01332 256526/35/36. Fax: 01332 256525. E-mail: registeroffice@derby.gov.uk

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

Derbyshire Record Office reference D1537 has deposited registers Bap 1700-2003 Mar 1700-200 Burials 1700-1992 Banns 1755-1801, 1851-1997

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.

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.

Poor Law Unions
Shardlow Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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