Hope, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hope is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Other places in the parish include: Wardlow Mires, Woodland Hope, Woodlands, Abney, Abney and Abney Grange, Aston, Bradwell, Brough and Shatton, Fairfield, Fernilee, Great Hucklow, Great Hucklow with Wardlow Mires, Grindlow, Hazlebache, Hazlebadge, Highlow, Hope Woodlands, Little Hucklow, Nether Padley, Offerton, Stoke, Thornhill, and Wardlow, Derbyshire.

HOPE (St. Peter), a parish, and formerly a market-town, partly in the union of Chapel-en-le-Frith, and partly in that of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of 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.

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

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.

Hope St Peter includes the townships of Aston, Brough and Shatton, Highlow, Offerton, Thornhill and part of Hope Woodlands. It previously included before their transfer to Bradwell chapelry in 1868 Bradwell, Abney and Abney Grange, Grindlow, Hazelbadge, Greta Hucklow, Little Hucklow and part of Wardlow.

It also included most of Hope Woodlands prior to the transfer to Derwent Woodlands, Derbyshire  and Fernilee prior to transfer to Buxton, Derbyshire and also nether Padley and Stoke prior to transfer to Eyam, Derbyshire The parish also include the chapelry of Fairfield, Derbyshire

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1828 has deposited registers Bap 1599-1969 Mar 1598-1659,1666-1987 Burials 1598-1659, 1665-1898 Banns 1754-1767, 1798-1823, 1884-1969

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap1661-1868 Mar 1661-1852 Burials 1661-1868

Non Conformist Churches

 * General Baptist
 * Presbyterian
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Unitarian
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Chapel en le Frith 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
Hope on GENUKI