Wingerworth, Derbyshire Genealogy

Guide to Wingerworth, Derbyshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WINGERWORTH, a parish, and village and four hamlets of Tupton, Clay Cross, Grassmoor and Ashoverin are in the Chesterfield district, Derbyshire.

WINGERWORTH, a parish, in the union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 2¾ miles (S. by W.) from Chesterfield.

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
Wingerworth parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Wingerworth All Saints formerly a chapelry of Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Derbyshire Record Office reference D 2662 has deposited registers Bap 1540-1976 Mar 1553-1989 Burial 1540-1887 Banns 1754-1812, 1823-1996

Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1664-1868Mar 1664-1860 Burials 1664-1868 missing all events 1842-1843, 1853-1854. Missing Bap/Bur 1860

Non-Conformist Churches
Roman Catholic
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Poor Law Unions
Chesterfield 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

Websites
Wingerworth on GENUKI