Chinley, Bugsworth and Brownside, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes  Chinley, Bugsworth and Brownside

Parish History
Chinley, Bugsworth and Brownside is a chapelry of Glossop, Derbyshire Ancient Parish in Derbyshire.Other places in the parish include: Brownside and Bugsworth.

Chinley St Mary, the Chinley with Buxworth Parish is within the Hayfield and Chinley with Buxworth Benefice of Glossop Deanery of the Diocese of Derby. St Mary's church is within the village.

CHINLEY, a township, in the parish of Glossop, union of Chapel-en-le-Frith, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 2½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel-en-le-Frith; containing, with the hamlets of Brownside and Bugsworth, 996 inhabitants. It comprises 3707 acres, of which 98 acres are waste and roads. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £63. 9., and the vicarial for £11. 5. There is a place of worship for dissenters.

From: 'Chinley - Chiswick', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 599-603. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50875 Date accessed: 01 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.

Church records
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Chinley St Mary initially an extra parochial place then the hamlet was part of the chapelry and later parish of Hayfield,_Derbyshire It became part of the new parish of Chinley with Buxworth in 1915 and has a Derbyshire Record Office reference D 7218

Buxworth St James, originally the hamlet was within Hayfield,_Derbyshire and the chapel of ease opened in 1874, the churchyard opened for burials in 1879, It became part of the parish of Chinley with Buxworth in 1915 and has Derbyshire Record Office references D 3381 and D 7218

Chinley with Buxworth Parish formed 1915 from Chinley st Mary and Buxworth St James and has Derbyshire Record Office reference D 7218

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Census records
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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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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