Of Derbyshire

WHO ARE WE?

We specialise in transcribing original documents to preserve many of the industrial related transcripts as well as parish registers that have survived.  We feel that the records of the past should be preserved for future generations to help them understand what sacrifices and hardships their ancestors, as pioneers of industry, contributed towards the modern way of life we enjoy today.

WHERE ARE WE?

We are based in Derby and, as such, our records are naturally concerned with our home county.  We are also dedicated historians and open to suggestions as to future projects provided the original documents have survived.  Please e-mail us If you have any idea.

HOW DO YOU ACCESS THE INFORMATION?

Each CD provides a database in both Excel and Tab-delimited format, which shuld enable it to open on most computers (at the moment we are unable to offer Mac and Apple options).  It is in alphabetical order with dates ranging from the first available up to 100 years ago (this complies with the Data Protection Act).

INTERESTED?

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If you are doing your family history or studying local history you cannot afford to turn down the chance of looking at this informatio, which has been transcribed from the original books and is not available elsewhere.  Look at the way your ancestors lived and worked and maybe find one of your own among them.

DERBY INFIRMARY ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY REGISTER 1891-1895

Information on people admitted to the infirmary during these years, not only from Derby but from surrounding districts.  Each entry includes name, age, address and cause and date of accident or illness.  Also when and how discharged.  [£15]

BRITISH INFANTS SCHOOL (DERBY) ADMISSION REGISTER 1871-1894

The first school that provided education for all classes in Derby.  The first available register includes name, date and place of birth, address, parent/guardian and occupation.  Also date of leaving and prvious school where this is provided in the original document.  [£10]

DERBYSHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM REGISTERS 1851-1855

Opened in 1851 to treat the county’s unfortunates.  Dates of admission and discharge are given together with type of ailment and details of the patient concerned.  Be prepared to be shocked at how a nation treated the unfortunate few.  [£12]

RAILWAY SERVANTS ORPHANAGE REGISTERS 1875-1900

The Derby based home that provided a lifeline for distressed children of railway employees from all over the country.  A wealth f information is provided that enables the life of these poor children to be traced from birth until they could earn their own living.  [£15]

DEAR DEPARTED 1800-1810

Copies of obituaries, death notices, accidents, murders and suicides, taken from the pages of the Derby Mercury, which includes everyone with a connection to Derbyshire.  People from all walks of life, from north and south of the county, are featured. 

Note this CD is done in PDF format as a ‘readable’ document and needs to be accessed via Acrobat reader.  [£10]

The basic source for all family and local historians.  The following discs include baptisms, banns, marriages and burials (where appropriate) from the beginning of the available registers until the early 1900s.  Each disc is a full transcript of the original as written by the incumbent, including all the extra comments.  They come in both Excel and tab-delimited format, which should enable most PCs to read the information.

BARTON BLOUNT 1763-1907

Now part of Church Broughton, this old parish finally losed its doors in 1907 and the church is now a private residence.  Originally the estate of the Blount family, royal favourites, there has been a church here since Domesday but only the later registers have survived.  [£8]

BRACKENFIELD 1845-1904

Holy Trinity is a lovely church set in a beautiful place.  Once a farming village and now mainly the home of those who work outside the parish, the church shares its vicar with the nearby village of Ashover.&bsp; [£8]

CALKE 1699-1904

The church of St Giles was rebuilt in 1826 by Sir John Harpur Crewe and served not only he estate workers, but those of the nearby village.  It can still be seen within the confines of the private Calke estate.  [£10]

CALOW 1861-1904<:p>

Once a thriving mining village and now a pleasant home for workers both in and out of the parish, the church of St Peters was once a chapel of ease to Chesterfield All Saints and now has a community of its own.  [£8]

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COTON IN THE ELMS 1846-1904

A pleasant village situated in the south of the county, Coton in the Elms was originally a chapelry of Lullington and a quiet agricultural area until the development of the adjacent coalfields.  [£8]

DERBY ST ANDREW 1864-1903

The influx of the railways into Derby made a new church a necessity to serve the manyfamilies flooding into the town for work.  From the beginning this became the spiritual home for those who laboured on the railway from Derby and elsewhere.  [£15]

DERWENT 1813-1904

This small parish in the far north of Derbyshire is now buried under the Ladybower Reservoir.  This contains the record of those who lived and worked there before the waters covered their village.  [£8]

KEDLESTON BY DERBY 1597-1903

Built by the Curzon family of Kedleston Hall and used mainly for members of the family and residents of the estate and nearby villages. it is a curiosity in that the living was held by members of the curzon family, the fourth baron scarsdale himself being rector from 1855-1916.  [£12]

MACKWORTH BY DERBY 1611-194

John Mundy acquired the Manor of Markeaton, including Mackworth and Allestree by foreclosing on a loan by the previous owner.  This beautiful parish church lies in a country setting close to the City of Derby.  [£12]

OSMASTON BY DERBY 1743-1903

This is the church that stood in the private grounds of Sir Robert Wilmot but served the people of the surrounding districts and has long since gone.  [£12]

ROSLISTON 1758-1904

A pleasant farming village in South Derbyshire and part of the National Forest.  The church was rebuilt in 1819, but the 14^th century tower remains.  [£10]

SHIREBROOK 1844-1904

Once a chapel of ease to Pleasley this pleasant farming village once had no industry and less than 500 people until the mines arrived.  [£10]

TEMPLE NORMANTON 1863-1904

This original 12^th century chapel belonged to the Knights Templars of Palestine who bestowed the title on this small parish in the rural area of Chesterfield.  [£8]

WESSINGTON 1858-1904

Christ Church is the church that serves the village of Wessington, proud possessor of the largest village green in the country.  [£8]