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CARSINGTON, Derbyshire

"CARSINGTON is a small parish, about two miles and a half W. from Wirksworth, containing a small ancient church, dedicated to St. Margaret; the living is a rectory, of which the dean of Lincoln is the patron. The parish contained, in 1831, 286 inhabitants, who are chiefly supported by agriculture and mining."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Cemeteries Census Church History Church Records

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Description and Travel Directories Gazetteers History

Cemeteries

• A list of Surnames from the Memorial Inscriptions of the Church of St Margaret, Carsington published originally in Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group (DARG) Newsletter, April 2007.
  Full details of inscriptions are available from DARG by postal application. See their How to Contact details for how to get in touch with them. Added 17 Apr 2007.

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in St Margaret's Churchyard,Carsington collected and transcribed by Alf Beard.

Census

• Transcriptions of the Wirkswirth Area Census covering Carsington for 1841, 1851 and 1881 (other years to follow) are available on John Palmer's Wirksworth site. This site also features Histories of Carsington, from various sources.

Church History

• Photograph of St Margaret's Church (1), and Photograph of St Margaret's Church (2), Carsington, from Alf Beard.

Church Records

• A transcription of Carsington Parish Registers - Banns, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1592-1888, by Brian Greatorex (on Derbyshire Family History Society's web site). Added 8 Sep 2005.

Description and Travel

• A short Description of Carsington and St Margaret's Church, published originally in Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group (DARG) Newsletter, April 2007, to accompany the MIs (see above, Cemeteries). Added 17 Apr 2007.

• Information about, and photographs of Carsington Water are featured on the Derbyshire UK page on Kniveton village in Derbyshire.

Directories

• Directory for Wirksworth and Cromford, with the villages of Alderwasley, Brassington, Carsington, Hopton, Holloway, Lea and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Carsington by Ann Andrews. Added 6 Jan 2007.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Carsington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Carsington by Barbarann Ayars.

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