Cotmanhay, Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Cotmanhay is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1845 from Heanor Ancient Parish and Ilkeston Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Ilkeston Christ Church, Little Hallam and Cotmanhay

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Independent Methodist and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COTMANHAY, a hamlet in Ilkeston parish, and a chapelry in Ilkeston and Heanor parishes, Derby. The hamlet adjoins the Erewash river, canal, and railway, at the boundary with Notts, 1½ mile N of Ilkeston. The chapelry was constituted in 1845; and its post town is Ilkeston, under Nottingham. Pop., 2,615. Houses, 514. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. There are two Methodist chapels.

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

FamilySearch

Church Records

Baptisms, 1838-1988
Author: United Methodist Free Church (Cotmanhay, Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Cotmanhay and Shipley, parish registers, 1898-1992
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cotmanhay & Shipley (Derbyshire); Derbyshire Record Office

England, Derbyshire, Cotmanhay, United Methodist Church, church records, 1920-1982
Author: Cotmanhay Road Chapel (Cotmanhay, Derbyshire : Methodist); United Methodist Church (Cotmanhay, Derbyshire); Derbyshire Record Office

Parish registers for Cotmanhay & Shipley, 1858-1967
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cotmanhay & Shipley (Derbyshire)

Parish registers for Cotmanhay, 1848-1895
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Cotmanhay (Derbyshire)

Computer printout of Cotmanhay, Derby., Eng

Social Life and Customs

Black diamonds, yellow apples : a working-class Derbyshire childhood between the Wars, as serialised on BBC Radio Derby
Author: Gadsby, Elsie, 1912-

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Basford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Ockbrook
  • Poor Law Union: Basford
  • Hundred: Morleston and Litchurch
  • Province: Canterbury