Mellor, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

Parish History
Mellor is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1737 from chapelry in Glossop, Derbyshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Ludworth and Chisworth and No Man's Land.

MELLOR, a chapelry, in the parish of Glossop, union of Hayfield, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 8¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chapel-en-le-Frith. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents.

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

Mellor St Thomas was originally a chapelry of Glossop, Derbyshire which became a parish in 1859 following part of the parish forming New Mills in 1831(see Beard, Derbyshire) The parish transferred to Cheshire in 1935 and to the diocese of Chester in 2007.

It is advisable to search Glossop, Derbyshire marriage registers after 1775.

Derbyshire Record Office reference D3858 has deposited registers Bap 1628-1890 Mar 1627-1775 Burials 1624-1909

See also transcript available at Derbyshire Record Office from1624 which has missing entries and does not cover all years of early registers.

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.

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