County Resources
Derbyshire
Shelf Mark: DB
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-D | E-N | O-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists : Derbyshire [&] Nottinghamshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 6, part 5 Derbyshire. London: SoG, 1995. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Catalogue of the muniments & manuscript books pertaining to the Dean & Chapter of Lichfield; analysis of the Magnum Registrum Album; catalogue of the muniments of the Lichfield vicars [Lichfield sacrist's roll 1345]: in Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 6 part 2, 1886 [ST/PER]
Church of England & Nonconformist registers in the Derbyshire Record Office: a guide to holdings, with a guide to transcripts of MIs held by the Derbyshire Record Office & notes on research into family history in Derbyshire [DB/G 27]
A guide to the holdings of Church of England registers in the Derbyshire Record Office [DB/R 45]
Review: Derbyshire parish registers - marriages: reprinted from the Derbyshire Archaeological & Natural History Society's journal, 1918 [Derbyshire tracts box]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the Origins Network.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at Family Search
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
The J N Thompson late baptism index [Shelf 9]
Derbyshire strays booklet, vol. 4: Derbyshire people extracted from the Nottinghamshire Phillimore marriages, M 1538-1838 [DB/G 23]
Derbyshire strays booklets, vol. 9-12 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1632-1837, M 1659-1837, B 1651-1837 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3381]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
16th century marriages (1538-1600) [Store A (UK/REG)]
Abstracts of the marriage bonds & allegations of the Diocese of Lichfield ... 1711-16: A-Z by groom [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]
Leicestershire Marriage Licences 1570-1729 - indexes to British Record Society, vol. 38 [Photocopy.] [LE/R 98]
Marriage bonds of the Peculiars of Derbyshire & the Peak, 1615-1729 [Typescript.] [ML/LIC]
Marriage bonds of the Peculiars of the Diocese of Lichfield: miscellaneous, 1628-1748 [Typescript.] [ML/LIC]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
The Church monuments of Derbyshire: the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries part 1: Derbyshire Archaeological Society, 1965 [DB/PER]
The monumental brasses of Derbyshire: Monumental Brass Society county series, vol. 8 [DB/M 20]
The war graves of the British empire: the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War & are buried in cemeteries & churchyards in ... Derby [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
DERBYSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
DERBYSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or DERBYSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at the National Archives
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
DERBYSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Derbyshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Alfreton | Allestree | Alsop en le Dale | Alvaston | Ashbourne | Ashford | Ashover | Aston upon Trent | Atlow | Ault Hucknall | Bakewell | Bamford | Barrow on Trent | Barton Blount | Baslow | Beauchief | Beeley | Beighton | Belper | Biggin | Blackwell | Bolsover | Bonsall | Boulton | Boylestone | Brackenfield | Bradbourne | Bradley | Bradwell | Brailsford | Brampton | Brassington | Breadsall | Breaston | Bretby | Brimington | Burbage | Buxton | Calke | Calow | Carsington | Castleton | Chaddesden | Chapel en le Frith | Chellaston | Chelmorton | Chesterfield | Chinley | Church Broughton | Church Gresley | Clifton | Clowne | Codnor & Loscoe | Cotmanhay | Coton in the Elms | Crich | Cromford | Croxall | Dalbury | Dale Abbey | Darley | Darley Dale | Denby| Derby | Derwent | Dethick | Doveridge | Dronfield | Duffield
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Derbyshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Earle Sterndale | Eaton | Eaton, Little | Eaton, Long | Edale | Edensor | Edlaston | Egginton | Elmton | Elvaston | Etwall | Eyam | Fairfield | Fenny Bentley | Findern | Foremark | Glossop | Hallam, West | Hartington | Hartshorne | Hassop | Hathersage | Hazlewood | Heage | Heanor | Heath | Hognaston | Holbrook | Holmesfield | Hope | Horsley | Hulland | Ilkeston | Ironville | Kedleston | Kirk Hallam | Kirk Ireton | Kirk Langley | Kniveton | Lane, Long | Langwith, Upper | Leighton, Low | Littleover | Longford | Longstone | Mackworth | Mapleton | Mapperley | Marston on Dove | Matlock | Matlock Bath | Measham | Melbourne | Mellor | Mickleover | Montgomery | Monyash | Moorwood Moor | Morley | Morton | Muggington | Newbold & Dunston | Newhall | Newton Solney | Norbury & Roston | Normanton | Normanton, South | Norton
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Derbyshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Ockbrook | Osmaston by Ashbourne | Osmaston by Derby | Parwich | Peak Forest | Pentrich | Pilsley | Pinxton | Pinxton Wharf | Pleasley | Quarndon | Radbourne | Repton | Riddings | Ridgway | Ripley | Risley | Rosliston | Rowsley | Sandiacre | Sawley | Scarcliffe | Shardlow | Sheldon | Shipley | Shirebrook | Shirland | Shirley | Shottle | Smalley | Smisby | Snelston | Somercotes | Spinkhill | Spondon | Stanley | Stanton by Bridge | Stanton by Dale | Stanton Lees | Staveley | Sudbury | Sutton cum Duckmanton | Sutton on the Hill | Swadlincote | Swarkeston | Tansley | Thorpe | Tickenhall | Ticknall | Tideswell | Tissington | Trusley | Turnditch | Twyford & Stenson | Walton upon Trent | Wardlow | Wessington | Weston upon Trent | Whitfield | Whitwell | Willesley | Willington | Wilne | Wingerworth | Wingfield, North | Wingfield, South | Winster | Wirksworth | Wormhill | Wycliffe | Yeaveley | Youlgrave
