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NORMANTON by DERBY, Derbyshire

"NORMANTON, a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 2 miles S. of Derby, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near the Birmingham railway, and is chiefly agricultural. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in framework knitting. The Derby canal crosses the N.E. part of the parish, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction railway intersects it."

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

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Giles's Church (CM 1769-1910; B 1807-1882) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 21 Jul 2006.

• Janice Hargreaves' Derbyshire Marriage Index site formerly at homepage.ntlworld.com/sherwoodoutlaw is now apparently unavailable, but some of the pages may be accessible via an Archived Version of Derbyshire Marriage Index. Note: as these are archived versions some of the links may no longer work, but the original site contained Marriages at Normanton by Derby, 1769-1810 (separate web pages for Brides and Grooms).

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Normanton by Derby, 1769-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 6).

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Normanton (by Derby) by Ann Andrews. Added 19 Feb 2007.

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

• Extracts from Trade Directories, Parish Registers, Census, &c. and other miscellaneous information for this area may be found on Brett Payne's South Derbyshire Genealogical Resources. Site is updated regularly, so check back frequently for additions.

History

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

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