| Description | Including parish registers of baptism, marriage, burial from 1538 to 1993; and other parish records including service registers, parish magazines, faculties and other church fabric records, records relating to tithes and endowments. Also includes:
Ashbourne District Nursing Association: minute books 1901-1949;
Ashbourne Female Friendly Society: rules, membership and subscriptions lists, accounts, correspondence, instruments of dissolution 1832-1897 |
| Administrative History | The parish of Ashbourne St Oswald includes Newton Grange, Offcote, Underwood, Sturston and Yeldersley. Alsop en le Dale, with Eaton, was a chapelry of the parish until the later 19th century when it became a separate parish (see D2579). The parish included Hulland with Hulland Ward until 1838 when Hulland became a chapelry and in 1855 was constituted a separate parish (see D3258). Clifton and Compton were included in the parish until 1846 when they were made a separate parish (see D3782).
The benefice has been consolidated with the rectory of Mapleton for a long time (see D845).
Ashbourne St John was formerly a free Church of England congregation and is now an extra-parochial peculiar (see D2155). |
| Custodial History | The records have been deposited at various dates from 1969. |