Barlborough, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BARLBOROUGH (St. James), a parish, in the union of Worksop, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Chesterfield Barlborough St James the Greater is an Ancient parish.

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

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1490 has deposited registers Bap 1648-1668, 1676-1965 Mar 1648-1668,1676-1967 Burials1648-1668, 1676-1974 Banns 1754-1848, 1938-1990

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1664-1852 Mar 1884-1853 Burials 1664-1852

To find the names of neighbouring parishes, use Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Roman Catholic
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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.

Registration District

 * Worksop

Poor Law Unions
Worksop Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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
Barlborough on GENUKI