Derby St Michael Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Derby St Michael is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Derbyshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

See also Derby Derbyshire Family History Guide

History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire Bagshaw 1846

St Michael’s is a very ancient small gothic structure situate in Queen street with nave chancel and side aisles with square embattled tower and three bells The living is a discharged vicarage. It has been augmented with 400 benefactions 400 queen Anne’s bounty and 2,000 parliamentary grant and is in the patronage of the crown The Rev John Garton Howard is incumbent It was given by one of the Freschevilles to the convent of Derby In the 1st year of the reign of queen Mary she gave this church to the bailiffs and burgesses of Derby Thomas James is parish clerk and Thomas Woodhouse sexton and beadle.

Source: History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent; Samuel Bagshaw (of Sheffield.) 1846

Parish Registers

Derby St Michael Marriages 1559 to 1812 Derbyshire Parish Registers Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and LL. LL. Simpson. V. 5 London: Issued to the subscribers by Phillimore & Co 124 Chancery Lane. 1909. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Administration

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