South Wingfield Derbyshire Family History Guide

South Wingfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire.

Other places in the parish include: Oakerthorpe.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1585
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1661

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

• Alfreton
• Crich
• Pentrich
• Shirland
• Heage

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINGFIELD (South), a parish, with Oakerthorpe hamlet, in Belper district, Derby; on the Midland railway, 2 miles W of Alfreton. It has a post-office under Alfreton, and a r. station.

Acres, 3,308. Real property, £6,753; of which £1,102 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,092; in 1861, 1,241. Houses, 257. The property is much subdivided.

W. manor belongs to Mr. Hatton, Oakerthorpe manor to the Duke of Devonshire. The manor-house was built, in the time of Henry VI., by Lord Cromwell; passed to the Earls of Shrewsbury; was, for several months in 1569, the prison of Mary Queen of Scots; was held alternately by both parties in the civil wars of Charles I.; was dismantled, in 1646, by order of parliament; and was partly used as a quarry, in 1774, for the erection of a neighbouring mansion.

Cotton-spinning and twist-manufacture are carried on.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £270. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is good; and there are four dissenting chapels, a free school, and charities £72.

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

Marriages

South Wingfield Derbyshire Marriages 1585-1837 – UK Genealogy Archives

London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869

The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.

Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.

Bayley, John, of St. Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex, yeoman, and Ann Platts, of Westham, co. Essex, spinster, daughter of Robert Platts, late of South Wingfield, co. Derby, yeoman, deceased — at Little All Hallows, Thames Street, London. 31 July, 1612. B. 

Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887

Parish Records

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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: Scarsdale
• Province: Canterbury