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WHITTINGTON, Derbyshire

"WHITTINGTON is a small parish, in the same hundred as Staveley, about three miles and a half west from that village, and about two and a half north from Chesterfield. The village is one to which some note is attached, as having been the place where the Earl (afterwards Duke) of Devonshire, the Earl of Derby (afterwards Duke of Leeds), Lord Delamere, and Mr. John Darcy, eldest son of the Earl of Holderness, assembled to concert measures for effecting the revolution of 1688." [There is further information for Whittington]

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

Biography Census Church Records Civil Registration Description and Travel Directories

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries Gazetteers History Names, Personal Obituaries Societies

Biography

• Inspector Sharpe's Retirement - information provided by courtesy of Tony Sharpe/Jayne McHugh.

Census

• Selected entries from Whittington, 1901 Census, provided by courtesy of Jayne McHugh..

Church Records

• Whittington, Deaths & Burials - information provided by courtesy of Jayne McHugh.

Civil Registration

• Whittington Civil Registration - information provided by courtesy of Jayne McHugh.

Description and Travel

• Whittington, A Description - information provided by courtesy of Jayne McHugh.

• Various photographs are available in our Whittington Photo Gallery, by courtesy of Stephen Kimberley/Jayne McHugh.

Directories

• Directory for Staveley, Whittington and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857, for Whittington by Neil Wilson.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Whittington (with New Whittington, Whittington Moor & Sheepbridge) by Ann Andrews. Added 6 Apr 2008.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Transcription of section of Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848, for Whittington courtesy of Sonya Addis-Smith/Jayne McHugh.

Gazetteers

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

History

• Revolution House - one of the pages of information provided as part of Jon Rouse's North East Derbyshire pages. Revolution house was where the Earl of Devonshire (from Chatsworth), the Earl of Danby and Mr John D'Arcy are said to have met to plan the Revolution of 1688, which led to the overthrow of King James II in favour of William and Mary of the Dutch House of Orange.

Names, Personal

• Whittington, Roll of Seatholders, March 23rd 1867 - information provided by courtesy of Stephen Kimberley/Jayne McHugh.

Obituaries

• Jayne McHugh has extracted entries of Whittington-born persons from The Derbyshire Times posted originally to the DERBYSGEN mailing list by Steve Kimberley.

  Obituaries for 1998

  Obituaries for 1999

Societies

• Chesterfield and District Family History Society - also covers Barlow, Brampton, Hasland, Newbold, Temple Normanton and Whittington.

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