GENUKI: Longstone, Derbyshire

Thornhill, Robert - Longstone Notes. Edited by M L Stuart and published by Longstone Local History Group, 1992.
Robert Thornhill was born in 1892. He always had a keen interest in local and family history, and on his death, in 1973, the archives and papers he'd collected during his lifetime were presented to the Derbyshire Record Office. This publication reproduces his "Notes on Longstone Church, Village and People"; with two Appendixes. The first Appendix is a summary of the Will of the author's great grandfather, another Robert Thornhill who died in 1820; the second Appendix lists a selection of Robert Thornhill's other publications - mainly articles in Derbyshire Miscellany, the bulletin of the Local History Section of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society.

Note: This may be out of print, but Local Libraries in Derbyshire should have copies. My copy is a slim A5-size booklet with a blue cover.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2539
1891	R.G. 12 / 2773

A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Giles's Church (also including Sheldon) is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 20 Sep 2008.
Here is a list of Longstone Parish Registers available on Microfilm from LDS Family History Libraries. Film Numbers are reproduced on GENUKI by kind permission of the Genealogical Society of Utah.

Parish registers, 1637-1955.	Microfilm Number
Baptisms, 1637-1742, 1765-1882; Marriages, 1637-1739, 1766-1817; Burials, 1637-1742, 1765-1812	1041704 item 5-10.
Marriages, 1855-1765, 1817-1881; Banns of Marriage, 1868-1880; Burials, 1813-1882.	1041705 item 1-6
Baptisms 1883-1955 Marriages 1880-1943	1751996 item 5-6

Bishops' Transcripts, 1665-1864.	Microfilm Number
Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1665-1812	0428922 item 1
Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1813-1864	0498099 item 3

The Bishops' Transcripts covering the period 1665-1864, are known to have gaps 1667-69; 1681-83; 1750-53; 1757-67.

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

To my mind, at least, LONGSTONE tends to be synonymous with Great Longstone [Rosmary Lockie, 2010].

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

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