Edensor, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
EDENSOR (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 2¼ miles (E. N. E.) from Bakewell.

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
Edensor 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.

Edensor St Peter reference D 1192 includes the townships of Pilsley and Chatsworth (from 19th century)

has deposited registers Bap 1539-1949 Mar 1530-1981 Burial 1539-1959 Banns 1754-1813, 1824-1830, 1854,1857, 1908-1992

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap1662-1865 Mar 1662-1837 Burials 1662-1865 Missing 1832-1834, 1845-1847, 1849-1863 all events

Non-Conformist Churches
Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Edensor on GENUKI