Normanton, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Parishes  Normanton



Parish History
Normanton, St Giles, was founded as a chapelry in the parish of Derby St Peter, ans became a parish' in the early 1800's. Parts of the parish were transferred to Derby, St Chad, Derbyshire in 1881 and Derby St Bartholomew in 1927. Included in this parish until the formation of a separate parish were Sinfin, St Stephen, Derbyshire. Independents and Primitive Methodists have places of worship.

Resources

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.

Normanton registration became part of Derby registration district post 1928

Shardlow registration District GRO volumes : XIX (1837-51); 7b (1852-1946); 3A (1946-74).

Registers are now held at The Register Office, Royal Oak House, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AR. Tel: 01332 256526/35/36. Fax: 01332 256525. E-mail: registeroffice@derby.gov.uk

Church records
Normanton St Giles has a small register of marriages which pre date the separate registers for the parish which begin in 1807. Marriages therefore took place here but Bap and burials may need to be sought in the mother parish register Derby St Peter, Derbyshire

Derbyshire Record Office reference D3611 has deposited registers Bap 1807-1891 Mar 1769-1810, 1826-1987 Burials 1807-1882 Banns 1965-1988

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1813-1869 Mar 1826-1836 Burials 1813-1869

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
Shardlow 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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