| Matlock
St Giles' Church Burials, 1637 - 1856 |
| Matlock Parish Church was, for
hundreds of years, the only burial place in the Matlocks |
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Searchable by date.
Please use the right hand navigation bar to view the burials.
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The burial register begins with the statement:
Burialls 1637 : September 19
Henrye Smith : Rector. |
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- Bernard Freeman of Manitoba, Canada worked on many of
the burials for Matlock St Giles' that are presented
on this website during 1999, with a few additions in 2001/2*.
He completed the final section of his work, the early burials
from 1668 - 1692, during December 2004.
- More burials were added by the web mistress in 2019 and
2020 when the gaps in these transcripts were
filled in. The transcripts were also taken back to the
beginning of the parish register (i.e. 1637).
- An addition
to some early sections of the parish register are the Rector's
and Churchwardens' names, shown where they appear at the
bottom of each page in the parish register.
- Whilst every effort has been made to be as accurate as
possible, it is recognised that individual entries may
be open to different interpretation. Please get in touch
if your research does not agree with an entry published
here as we would like to know.
- Having said that, some pages are very hard to
read. This may be because of the ink that was used, the
quality of the microfilms or perhaps from wear and tear.
The earliest records, kept by Henry Smith, are easy to
read but there are parts from the Shelmerdine era, i.e.
during the Civil War, where
the names and abodes are difficult to decipher (see Rectors for more about these two men).
- Names are shown as spelt rather than as they are written
today. For example, sometimes the Christian name John was
written as Jhon and similarly the surname Johnson was recorded
as Jhonson.
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Also see:
About St Giles.
Strays
- Matlock people buried elsewhere
Additional
Entries : an extra section of names not included in the onsite
records
Memorial Inscriptions
View even more about Matlock's oldest church by clicking on
the images below:
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Background info:
- The following films, where known, were used for the BT transcripts*:
LDS #428924 (1662 -1812), LDS #498102 (1813 -1856).
The films may be viewed at LDS centres throughout the world and
were filmed by the LDS Church from the Bishops Transcripts held
at Staffordshire RO, England. Derbyshire Record Office holds the
parish register.
*The BT transcripts were initially done for John Palmer's Wirksworth
website. The information was subsequently added to and is
published here with Bernie's kind permission and is presented here
as close to Bernie's original work as possible. Bernie gave a copy
of his work to the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
- Ann Andrews contributed minor amendments and additions to the
original transcripts when they were first done, with further
more major additions in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017 which
have all been incorporated into the information on these pages.
Transcripts from 2018 onwards, i.e. for the years 1637-1672 and
later years where there had previously been a gap, are © Ann
Andrews and are from the parish register. 1832 transcripts © Susan
Tomlinson.
- All information is held by Ann in databases
of her own design.
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