Derby St Werburgh Derbyshire Family History Guide
Derby St Werburgh is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Derbyshire.
Other places in the parish include: Little Chester.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian
Adjacent Parishes
- Derby St Michael
- Normanton
- Derby St Peter
- Mickleover
- Mackworth
- Derby All Saints
- Derby St John
- Littleover
- Derby St Alkmund
Historical Descriptions
See Derby Derbyshire Family History Guide
History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire Bagshaw 1846
St Wsbeuboh The ancient structure situated near the Markeaton brook is supposed to have been built before the Norman conquest its foundation was injured by occasional floods so that in 1001 the tower fell and within a century afterwards the church having become ruinous the present edifice was erected at the principal charge of the parishonera by the great zeal of the Rev James Walker the vicar who died in 1700 and endowed the church with part of the tithes of Derby It consists of nave chancel and side aisles in the Tuscan style with a fine Gothic tower and five bells with galleries on the north and south sides and west end in which is an organ erected about 1839 by Gray of London at a cost of 350 The living is a discharged vicarage valued in the king's books at 5 12s 8d now 298 in the patronage of the crown the Rev Edward Unwin is the incumbent In the reign of king Stephen the church of St Werbergh was given to the abbey at Derley In this church there was a chantry of the blessed Mary It was endowed with various messuages gardens cottages and lands which in the reign of queen Mary were in the tenure of ten different persons and by her granted to the corporation of Derby.
Source: History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent; Samuel Bagshaw (of Sheffield.) 1846
Parish Records
England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918
Marriages
Derbyshire parish registers. Marriages
by Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913, ed; Blagg, Thomas Matthews, ed
Derby St Werburgh Derbyshire Marriages 1558-1837 - Archive.org
Derby St Werburgh Derbyshire Marriages 1558-1837 - UK Genealogy Archives
Parish Records - FamilySearch
Census
England and Wales Census, 1841
England and Wales Census, 1851
England and Wales Census, 1861
England and Wales Census, 1871
England and Wales Census, 1881
England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales Census, 1911
Records for England
Births and Baptism Records
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Marriage Records
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1640-1660
Non-Conformist Records
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977
Occupations
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941
War and Conflict
Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records, 1760-1913
United Kingdom, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 (WO 122)
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
United Kingdom, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
United Kingdom, World War I Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920
Newspaper Archives
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries
Administration
County: Derbyshire
Civil Registration District: Derby
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Lichfield
Rural Deanery: Derby
Poor Law Union: Derby
Hundred: Derby Borough
Province: Canterbury