Dore, Derbyshire Family History Guide
Dore is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1720 from a chapelry in Dronfield Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Totley.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1738
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1809
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Beauchief Abbey
- Holmesfield
- Norton
- Hathersage
- Dronfield
- Fulwood, Yorkshire
- Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire
- Derwent
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DORE, a township and a chapelry in Dronfield parish, Derby. The township lies near the river Sheaf, adjacent to Yorkshire, 3 miles NW of Dronfield, and 5 SW by S of Sheffield r. station; and has a post-office under Sheffield. Pop., 610. Houses, 131. The chapelry includes also the township of Totley; and was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £2,839. Pop., 1,006. Houses, 213. The property is divided among a few. Quarrying, brick-making, the preparing of copperas, and the making of saw-handles are carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £90. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was rebuilt in 1828. There are Wesleyan and P. Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £33 a year, and charities £12.
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
Census
Census returns for Dore, 1841-1891
Church Records
Bishop’s transcripts for Dore, 1809-1868
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Dore (Derbyshire)
England, Derbyshire, Dore, parish registers
Author: University of York. Borthwick Institute
Computer printout of Dore or Dore and Totley, Derby., Eng
Cemeteries
Dore–the monumental inscriptions of Dore graveyard
Author: Dunn, M. P.
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Valuation list, 1863
Author: Dore (Derbyshire)
Taxation
Valuation list, 1863
Author: Dore (Derbyshire)
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Derbyshire
- Civil Registration District: Ecclesall Bierlow
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Brampton
- Poor Law Union: Ecclesall Bierlow
- Hundred: Scarsdale
- Province: Canterbury