Killamarsh, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Killamarsh, a village and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands on the Chesterfield Canal near the boundary with Yorkshire, with a station on the M.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Eotherham. The parish comprises 1659 acres; population, 3202. The manor belongs to the Pole family. There are collieries, a steel forge, and chemical works. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £3 61 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is partly ancient, was restored in 1877, and has a Norman arch in the S porch and a tower. A mission-room was erected in 1890, and there are also Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. There is an endowed school with, £40 yearly and other charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Killamarsh St. Giles | |
Hundred | Scarsdale | |
Poor Law union | Chesterfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Killamarsh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Killamarsh (St. Giles))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Killamarsh are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: