Stanley, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STANLEY (St. Andrew), an ancient parish, created in 1828 from a chapelry in Spondon, Derbyshire. It is in the union of Shardlow, hundred of Appletree, though locally in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Derby.

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.

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

Stanley St Andrew was originally a chapelry in Spondon, Derbyshire parish. The parish includes a mission church at Stanley Common.

Fire destroyed a burial register for 1812-1901

Derbyshire Record Office reference D3209 has deposited registers Bap 1675-1942 Mar 1754-1959 Burials 1678-1812, 1901-1992 Banns 1926-1979

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1847 Mar 1662-1837 Burials 1662-1847

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

Poor Law Unions
Shardlow 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
Stanley on GENUKI