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

Adjacent Parishes

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

Parish registers for Abbeydale St. John, 1876-1931
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Abbeydale St. John (Derbyshire)

Parish registers for Dronfield, 1560-1922
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Dronfield (Derbyshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Holmesfield (Derbyshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Dore (Derbyshire); Derbyshire Record Office

Parish registers of Christ Church, Dore, 1734-1924
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Dore, Derbyshire)

Computer printout of Dore or Dore and Totley, Derby., Eng

Parish register printouts of Dore, Derbyshire, England ; christenings, 1809-1868
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Cemeteries

Dore–the monumental inscriptions of Dore graveyard
Author: Dunn, M. P.

A transcript of a few of the memorial inscriptions in the churchyard of Christ Church in the parish of Dore in the county of South Yorkshire, formerly in the county of Derby
Author: Derbyshire Family History Society

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