Ironville, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Ironville, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records. This parish is mostly in the county of Derbyshire. For more information and records, see Ironville, Derbyshire.

Parish History
IRONVILLE, a village in Alfreton parish, Derby; and a chapelry partly also in Pentrich parish and Codnor-Park extra-parochial tract, Derby, and Selston parish, Notts. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in iron works.

SELSTON, a village and a parish in Basford district, Notts. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bagthorpe and Underwood. There are chapels for Calvinists, Baptists, and Primitive Methodists.

Additional information:

Ironville is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, partly in Nottinghamshire and partly in Derbyshire; created in 1850 from Selston with Underwood and Westwood Ancient Parish (Nottinghamshire) and parts of Codnor and Loscoe Ecclesiastical Parish, Pentrich Ancient Parish, Riddings Ecclesiastical Parish and Codnor Park extra-parochial (All Derbyshire);.

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
Ironville parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

Poor Law Unions
Belper 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