Killamarsh

The Killamarsh Library on Stanley Street is normally open five days a week. They have a Local Studies and Family History section to help you with your search.

• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2148
1861	R.G. 9 / 2534
1891	R.G. 12 / 2769

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1845.
   
• The entire church was restored in 1877.
   
• The church seats 350.
   
• John JENNINGS has a photograph of St. Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1638 and is in good condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
   
• In 1912, the parish also had both Primitive Methodist and United Methodist chapels.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.

"KILLAMARSH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2 miles N.E. of Eckington, its post town and railway station, 8 N.E. of Chesterfield, and 9 S.E. of Sheffield."

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

The parish is on the border of Yorkshire, 162 miles north of the city of London. The Chesterfield Canal meanders through the village.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Killamarsh entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Killamarsh to another place.

In 1912, Col. Reginald Walkelyne CHANDOS-POLE was lord of the manor and one of the chief landowners here.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK458804 (Lat/Lon: 53.318555, -1.313948), Killamarsh which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Traces of War website tell us that St. Giles churchyard has one Commonwealth War Grave from World War II.

1. John William COOPER, private, Royal Army Service Corps, age 22, died 15 July 1941. Husband of Winifred COOPER of Sharrow.

• For a list of the names on the War Memorial, see the Killamarsh WW I page.

In the 1086 Domesday Book the name appears as "Chinewaldmarese".

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derby county.
   
• This Chapelry was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish (date not yet found).
   
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Killamarsh Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they will NOT assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the North East Derbyshire District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Eckington petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.

• The Killamarsh Heritage Society aims to promote and record the history and character of Killamarsh.