Hayfield, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hayfield is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1733 from chapelry in Glossop, Derbyshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Great Hamlet, Kinder, and Phoside.

HAYFIELD, a chapelry, and the head of a union, in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 4½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel-en-le-Frith; comprising the townships of Brownside, Bugsworth, Chinley, and Hayfield. There are places of worship for Independents at Chinley, and for Methodists at Hayfield and Chinley.

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

To find the names of the 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.

Includes the hamlets of Great Hamlet, Hayfield, Kinder and Phoside. New Mills St George parish (see Beard, Derbyshire) includes hamlest prior to 1831 which were within this parish and Chinley, Bugsworth and Brownside, Derbyshire were also previously within the boundary of the parish.

Not licensed for marriages 1760-1836

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 2426 has deposited registers Bap 1622, 1635-1648, 1663-1958 Mar 1635-1648, 1666-1759, 1837-1992 Burials 1635-1648, 1663-1993 Banns 1837-1872, 1834-1969

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Hayfield 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
Hayfield on GENUKI Hayfield on Rootsweb, links to extracted Hayfield records