Tupton, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Tupton was historically a township in the parish of North Wingfield, Derbyshire A mission church was built in the late 19th century which later became licensed for marriages in 1923.

Tupton St John was formed as an ecclesiastical parish.

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
Tupton St John for baptisms refer to the registers of North Wingfield, Derbyshire

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1436 has deposited registers Mar 1923-1968 Banns 1922-1926

Poor Law Unions
See North Wingfield, 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
 * The formation of the church is too late for these but see North Wingfield, Derbyshire