Discover if your ancestor was buried in the British county of Derbyshire. Search more than 76,000 records from the Derbyshire Burial Registers to find out their name, date of birth and date of death. A full list of parishes is available in the Derbyshire parish list.
Each record contains the transcription of an original parish records. The information contained varies but you could be able to find out the following about your ancestor:
Name
Year of birth
Year of death
Date of burial
Age
Parish
Residence
There are 76,741 records in this collection taken from the burial registers from parishes around the county.
Before the introduction of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in 1837 all such events were recorded in the local parish.
Parish records generally begin from 1538 after the Church of England mandated the keeping of parish registers in 1537. Baptisms, marriages and burials were all recorded in a single volume until 1774, when the law changed to require a separate marriage register and another one for Banns (or proclamations of an intent to marry). Standardised forms for these registers appeared in 1812.
Other religious denominations, with the exception of the Quakers and Jews, often registered these events in their local Church of England parish even after the Toleration Act of 1689 although between 1754 and 1837 it was illegal to marry anywhere other than a Church of England parish.
Derbyshire is in the East Midlands of England. The southern extremity of the Pennine range of hills stretches into the north of the county. The country also contains part of the National Forest with Greater Manchester to the northwest, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the northeast, Nottinghamshire to the east and Leicestershire to the southeast. Staffordshire is to the west and southwest and Cheshire is also to the west.
These transcriptions are the work of Helen Betteridge and Jean Shannon.