Ripley Derbyshire Family History Guide

Ripley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1822 from a chapelry in Pentrich Ancient Parish. 

Other places in the parish include: Greenwich, Green Hillocks, Butterley, Marehay, and Hartshay. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1821
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1821

Nonconformists include: Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian Unitarian, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RIPLEY, a small town, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Belper district, Derbyshire.

The town stands at the terminus of the Derby, Little Eaton, and Ripley railway, near the Cromford canal, 10 miles NNE of Derby; is well-built; carries on extensive trade in connexion with neighbouring collieries, the Butterley iron-works, and an establishment for silk and cotton manufacture; and has a post-office under Derby, a railway station, a banking office, two chief inns, a church, five dissenting chapels, a school-church, two national schools, a weekly market on Saturday, and fairs on Easter-Wednesday, 23 Oct., and 5 Nov.

The church was built in 1821, restored in 1861, and improved in 1868. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Butterley, Hartshay, Marehay, Greenwich, and Green-Hillocks; and is in Pentrich parish. Acres, 2,164. Real property, £35,860; of which £17,858 are in mines, and £7,647 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 3,071; in 1861, 5,244. Houses, 1,050. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belongs to J. Woolley, Esq., and the executors of the late J. Topham, Esq. Butterley Hall is the seat of Major Jessop.

A branch of the Erewash Valley railway comes to Butterley works.

Zinc smelting is carried on at Hartshay. Roman coins were found in 1730.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, F. Wright, Esq.

The sub-district contains also the rest of Pentrich parish, all South Wingfield parish, and parts of two others. Pop. in 1851, 9,489; in 1861, 12,185. Houses, 2,510.

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

England, Derbyshire, Ironville – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Ironville burials, 1852-1901
Author: Smedley, J. M.; Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group

The memorial inscriptions of Christ Church, Ironville
Author: Derbyshire Family History Society

England, Derbyshire, Ironville – Church records ( 6 )
Baptismal register, 1874-1904
Author: Providence Chapel (Ironville : United Methodist Free Church)

Bishop’s transcripts for Ironville, 1852
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ironville (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Ironville and Pyehill Providence United Methodist Free Chapel, church records, 1899-1955
Author: Ironville and Pye Hill Providence Chapel (Selston, Nottinghamshire : United Methodist Free); Ironville and Pye Hill Providence Chapel (Selston, Nottinghamshire : Methodist); Derbyshire Record Office

England, Derbyshire, Ironville, parish registers, 1907-1967
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ironville (Derbyshire); Derbyshire Record Office

Ironville baptisms, 1852-1877
Author: Smedley, J. M.; Church of England. Chapelry of Ironville (Derbyshire)

Parish registers for Ironville, 1852-1960
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ironville (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Ironville – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Ironville, Providence Chapel United Methodist Free Church, Derby., Eng

Administration

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