Hartington, Derbyshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Hartington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Biggin, Derbyshire is a chapelry of Hartington. Other places in the parish include: Town Quarter, Hartington Town Quarter, Hartington Upper Quarter, and Upper Quarter.

HARTINGTON (St. Giles), a parish, partly in the union of Bakewell, and partly in that of Chapel-Enle-Frith, hundred of Wirksworth, N. and S. divisions of the county of Derby, 10 miles (N. N. W.) from Ashborne; containing 2197 inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the river Dove, which divides the county from Staffordshire; and comprises by admeasurement 21,791 acres: the surface is mountainous, the parish being near the Peak of Derbyshire. Limestone is abundant, and extensively converted into lime; there are also ironstone and lead, the latter of which, however, is now but little worked. The Cromford and High-Peak railway passes on the east. A market and a fair held here have been long disused; but fairs are held at Newnhaven, for cattle, sheep, and hardware, on the second Tues day in September, and October 30th: the latter is also a great pleasure-fair. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10; net income, £149; patron, the Duke of Devonshire; impropriator, R. Bateman, Esq.: the tithes were commuted for land at the time of the inclosure; the glebe contains 205 acres. The church is a fine cruciform structure. EarlSterndale, in the parish, forms a separate incumbency. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and a school is supported. Hartington gives the title of Marquess to the Duke of Devonshire.

From: 'Hartford - Hartlington', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 421-427. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51010 Date accessed: 28 March 2011.

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
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.

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Poor Law Unions
Ashbourne Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Bakewell 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
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