Elmton with Creswell, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire Derbyshire Parishes  Elmton With Cresswell



Parish History
Elmton St Peter is an Ancient parish which also includes Cresswell.

ELMTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Worksop, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 9 miles (E. by N.) from Chesterfield; containing, with the township of Creswell, 433 inhabitants. It comprises about 1200 acres; the surface is level, with some small undulations, and the soil a thin marl resting on limestone. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 1. 3.; net income, £55; patron and impropriator, the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes. The extraordinary arithmetical calculator, Jedediah Buxton, was born at this place in 1707, and in 1772 was buried here.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 164-167. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50946 Date accessed: 16 April 2011.

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.

For history of civil registration in this area see Worksop Registration District

Church records
Derbyshire Record Office reference D1462 has deposited registers Bap 1598-1904 Mar 1598-1723,1737-1987 Burials 1598-1917 Banns 1860-1997

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1673-1868 Mar 1673-1876 Burials 1673-1868

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.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Worksop 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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