Sources connected with major events

Family historians usually want to find out all they can about the major events in their ancestors' lives. Information about births, marriages and deaths can be found in Derbyshire Local Studies Library.

Here is a list of the most important resources we have to help you.

  • Civil Registration Indexes to Births, Marriages, Deaths: 1837-2001  
  • Overseas Indexes, including Boer War, World War I and World War II deaths. We have a complete set of these. 
  • Boyds Marriage Index, Derbyshire   
  • Published Parish Register copies and indexes: including the Phillimore series for Derbyshire and some for surrounding counties.   
  • Lambeth Palace Marriage Licence Indexes, 1543-1850.   
  • A few Nonconformist and Roman Catholic Registers.   
  • Lists of Strays. These are Derbyshire people who got born, married or died away from their home parish.  
  • Monumental Inscriptions from churchyards and cemeteries: Derbyshire plus surrounding counties, particularly Nottinghamshire and Cheshire.  
  • Wills indexes and copies.  
  • Mining Deaths: 1850 to 1914 (indexes to HM Inspectors of Mines reports)     
  • Newspapers - unindexed except for Derbyshire Times: Births, Marriages, Deaths indexed from 1981 onward and 1880 to 1894, 1900 to 1914, 1918 to 1919

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