Chelmorton, Derbyshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHELMERTON,or Chelmorton a chapelry, in the parish and union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 4¼ miles (S. W. by S.) from Tideswell. There are meeting-houses Wesleyans and Presbyterians.

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
Chelmorton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed 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.

Chelmorton St John the Baptist part of the parish transferred to King Sterndale, Derbyshire in 1851

Derbyshire Record Office reference D2423 has deposited registers Bap 1587-1706, 1714-1991 Mar 1587-1706, 1714-1835 1838-1996 Burial 1587-1706, 1714- 1991 Banns 1928-1991

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.

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