Killamarsh Derbyshire Family History Guide
Killamarsh is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1843 from a chapelry in Eckington Ancient Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1638
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1670
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KILLAMARSH, a village and a parish in Chesterfield district, Derby.
The village stands on the Chesterfield canal, near the boundary with Yorkshire, 2 miles NE of Eckington r. station, and 8½ NE of Chesterfield; was known at Domesday as Chinewoldemarese; and has a post office under Chesterfield.
The parish comprises 1,646 acres. Real property, £4,810; of which £460 are in mines, and £20 in iron works. Pop., 1,053. Houses, 224. The manor belongs to Chandos Pole, Esq. There are brick fields and chemical works.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £200. Patron, the Crown. The church is partly ancient, partly recent; and has a Norman arch in the S porch, and a tower.
There are an endowed school, with £22 a year, and other charities with £69.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918
Administration
- County: Derbyshire
- Civil Registration District: Chesterfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Staveley
- Poor Law Union: Chesterfield
- Hundred: Scarsdale
- Province: Canterbury