Bradley, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes  Bradley



Parish History
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bradley like this:

BRADLEY, a parish in Ashbourne district, Derby; 2½ miles E by S of Ashbourne r. station. Post Town, Ashbourne. Acres, 2,374. Real property, £3,144. Pop., 253. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £259.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient and decayed. Gisborne's charities for Bradley and many other places in the county yield £687 a year.

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 neighbouring parishes, use Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click Llist contiguous parishes.

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
Ashbourne 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