Blackwell, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes

Guide to Blackwell, Derbyshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.



Parish History
BLACKWELL, a township, in the parish and union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 3¼ miles (S. W.) from Tideswell.

Blackwell St Werburgh is an Ancient Parish.

See also A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 275-278. here

Census records
See Derbyshire Census

Church records
Blackwell parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials havehave online indexes by the following groups:

To find the names of 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.

Blackwell St Werburgh includes the hamlet of Newton. Derbyshire Record Office reference D 1034 has deposited registers Bap 1685-1981 Mar 1685-1991 Burials 1685-1972 Banns 1754-1770, 1880-1949, 1962-1985

Westhouses St Saviour was founded as a mission church in this parish. the church was built in 1898 and closed in 1994 Derbyshire Record Office reference D4844 has deposited registers Bap 1993-1994 Banns 1985-1995

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Primitive Methodist

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.

This parish was in the Mansfield registration district from 1837 for registration district history Mansfield registration district

Registration District

 * Mansfield

Poor Law Unions
Mansfield Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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