KILLAMARSH, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
  
  
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1845.
  
  
• The entire church was restored in 1877.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1638.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"KILLAMARSH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2 miles N.E. of Eckington, its post town and railway station, 8 N.E. of Chesterfield, and 9 S.E. of Sheffield."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Killamarsh entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derby county.
  
  
• This Chapelry was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish (date not yet found).
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.

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