Beard or New Mills Derbyshire Family History Guide

Beard is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1844 from Glossop Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Beard Thornsett Ollersett and Whittle, New Mills, Newmills.

The official name of the parish until 1885 was Beard Thornsett Ollersett And Whittle. After 1885 it was known as New Mills.

Other places in the parish include: Ollersett, Thornsett, Whittle, and Glossop Dale.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1831
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1844

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Beard

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Beard, a hamlet in New Mills parish, Derbyshire, in the High Peak division of the county, near the river Etherow and the Peak railway, 5 miles NW of Chapel-le-Frith. The nearest station is Glossop (2 miles) on the M.S. & L. railway. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in iron foundries and quarries, also in candlewick mills and chemical works.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BEARD, a township in Glossop parish, Derby; in the High Peak, near the river Etherow and the Peak railway, 5 miles NW of Chapel-le-Frith.

It comprises the hamlets of Beard, Thornsett, Whittle, and Ollersett; and includes the village of New Mills.

Acres, 5,044. Real property, £15,623, of which £1,150 are in mines. Pop., 4,822. Houses, 940.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Newmills

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWMILLS, a village and a chapelry in Glossop parish, Derby.

The village stands on the river Goyt, at the boundary with Cheshire, ¾ of a mile N of the Manchester, Stockport, and Buxton railway, and 7¾ miles ESE of Stockport.

It was originally called Bowder-Middle-Cale; took the name of Newmills from the erection of a newmill on its site; is a large place; and has a post-office under Stockport, a station with telegraph on the M. and B. railway, a station also on the Midland railway, a savings’ bank, and fairs on 12 May and 22 Oct.

The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Beard, Thornsett, Whittle, and Ollersett; and is conterminate with the township of Beard.

Acres, 5,044. Real property, £15,623, of which £1,150 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 4,366; in 1861, 4,822. Houses, 940. The property is much subdivided.

High Lee Hall is the residence of W. S. Lowe, Esq.; Oak House, of J. Fielding, Esq.; Ollersett Hall, of G. Eyre, Esq.; Watford Villa, of J. Ingham, Esq.; and Aspenshaw Hall, of H. Lees, Esq.

There are many calico-printing works and cotton-band manufactories, and an iron and brass foundry.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Glossop. The church is a handsome edifice, in the pointed style; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire.

There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, United Free Methodists, and Roman Catholics, and a mixed national school.

The R. Catholic chapel is a very fine structure, in the early English style; and has a tower and spire.

The workhouse of Hayfield district also is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 41 inmates.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Parish Records

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Beard

England, Derbyshire, Beard – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Beard, 1844-1856
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Beard (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Beard – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of New Mills or Beard, Derby., Eng

Newmills

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Administration

County: Derbyshire
Civil Registration District: Hayfield
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Lichfield
Rural Deanery: Castleton
Poor Law Union: Hayfield
Hundred: High Peake
Province: Canterbury