Normanton Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Normanton is a chapelry of Derby St Peter Ancient Parish in Derbyshire. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1769 see also Derby St Peter
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1810

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NORMANTON, a parish in Shardlow district, Derbyshire; on the Midland railway, adjacent to Ryknield-street, 2 miles S by W of Derby. It has a postal pillar under Derby.

Acres, 1,362. Real property, £3,705. Pop., 437. Houses, 89. Normanton House is the residence of R. Sale, Esq.; Peartree House, of G. W. Fox, Esq.; and Little Overhill, of J. Haywood, Esq.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Derby, St. Peter, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt in 1862; is in the decorated English style; and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with tower and spire.

There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.

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

Marriages

Normanton Derbyshire Marriages 1769-1810 – UK Genealogy Archives

Administration

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