Dale Abbey, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire

Parish History
Click here to read a description of Dale Abbey from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72).

For historical information on Dale Abbey, go to the All Saints Dale Abbey website.

Census Records
British census records for 1841 through 1901 are indexed and imaged on the Ancestry.com website, which is accessed by subscription fee or may be available for free at a library near you. The census are also indexed and imaged on the findmypast.co.uk website, which is accessed for a per-use fee. Both websites are available to patrons for free at the Family History Libraryin Salt Lake City, and at some family history centers.

The Derbyshire Family History Society has created surname indexes to the 1851 and 1891 censuses. The indexes are available at the Family History Library.

Church Records
Dale Abbey was originally a private peculiar owned by the Stanhope family. It was annexed to the parish of Stanton by Dale in the 1960s. The church is dedicated to All Saints and records date from 1667. The parish registers and chest records are deposited at the Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock.

Records in the Collection of the Family History Library
The parish registers are not available on microfilm at the library, but marriages for 1667-1813 have been published in Phillimore's parish register series. The earliest general register for 1667-1731 has also been transcribed and published by the Derbyshire Archaeological Society in volume 22 of their publications.

Civil Registration
From 1837 until 1938, Dale Abbey was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow registration district. For information on obtaining birth, marriage and death certificates from 1837 to the present, see the Wiki article on England Civil Registration.

Probate Jurisdiction
Dale Abbey had a manorial court with peculiar probate jursidiction over the estates of persons who resided there.

Links
See also links to sources for Dale Abbey at GENUKI.org.uk.