THE STANLEY "ONE - PLACE" STUDY |
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A study of a Derbyshire village and its inhabitants Webmaster Alan Bloor
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A NOTE FROM THE WEBMASTER: I started this website around 1999 as a free online resource for people interested in tracing their ancestors from the village of Stanley, Derbyshire. I have been updating it ever since, with contributions from other people and by adding baptism and marriage entries once a year on the 100th anniversary of the baptisms and 75th anniversary of the marriages. However, Rootsweb have decided to archive all the freepages websites sometime during 2024 and I will no longer be able to update this site after that happens. Therefore I am doing one final update during 2023. This update has hopefully tidied up the site, and I have added baptisms up to 1925 and marriages up to 1950, even though this breaks my rule of waiting 100 or 75 years. I am still happy to help with any queries, but if you find any errors on the site I am sorry but I will be unable to correct them after the website is archived. Please check any transcription that you find here before accepting it as accurate, I have tried not to make any mistakes but there may well be some. Ancestry is an excellent source for checking the parish registers and censuses, and you can buy a copy of any will from the probate office website (current cost only £1-50). Otherwise you can visit or request help from Derbyshire Records Office. Alan Bloor March 2023 |
1. Introduction - background information including a brief tour of Stanley village. |
2. The Stanley Photo Album - a collection of photographs of Stanley, past and present, and of the people who lived there. |
3. Stanley Censuses Online - transcriptions of all the censuses taken in Stanley from 1841 to 1901 , together with surname indexes. |
4. Baptisms, marriages, burials - search the Parish Registers and Bishops' Transcripts of Stanley for records of your ancestors. Includes St Andrew's and All Saints' churches, plus baptisms from two of Stanley's Methodist Chapels. |
5. Marriage Licences - additional information found in pre-1837 marriage allegations and bonds. |
6. Stanley
Death Certificates 1853 - 1900 - an attempt to
fill the gap left by the destruction of the burial register for
this period. |
7. Memorial Inscriptions - the MIs of Stanley St Andrew's and Stanley Common All Saints churches, plus an index of all the names. |
8. Trade Directories - entries from a number of local directories. |
9. Stanley Wills - Summaries of the wills of Stanley residents. |
10. Stanley Strays - a collection of people from Stanley who are later found elsewhere. |
11. Stanley in Print - transcriptions of newspaper articles relating to events in Stanley |
12. Miscellany - a section for topics which are not extensive enough to have a section of their own. |