Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes  Chapel en le Frith



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
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.

Chapel-en-le-Frith St Thomas a Becket had a mission church which was a chapel of ease to the parish known as Cockyard Mission.

The parish included the townships of Bowden Edge, Bradshaw Edge and Combs Edge which together were known as Bowden Chapel. The hamlet of Dove Holes, Derbyshire was also included until 1983

Derbyshire Record Office reference has deposited registers Bap 1620-1996 Mar 1620-1998 Burials 1620-1992 Banns 1754-1792,1837-1996

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Chapel en le Frith 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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