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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3682
TitleHigh Peak Coroner
Date1940s-2000
DescriptionThe following description is a summary collection level guide only, providing information on scope, content, dates and access conditions.

Inquests 1970-1979, Registers of reported deaths 1954-1983, Inquest notebooks 1964-1979, Correspondence etc., Assorted papers and files 1940s-1970s

Unlisted accession, Nov 2019: Records of deaths and Inquests 1980-1988, 1990-2000
ExtentApprox. 89 boxes
LevelFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorHigh Peak Coroner
Custodial HistoryThese records were transferred to Derbyshire Record Office under the Public Records Act at various dates between 1992 and November 2019.
AppraisalWhere inquest case papers all contain a typescript of the evidence, evidence objects have been disposed of. (PB - 10/05/2023)
Organisation Sub-TypeCoroner's courts
Access CategoryCLOSED
Access ConditionsDerbyshire Record Office cannot provide direct access to these records. Please contact the Coroners Office in the first instance, see link below.
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FormatDocument
Related MaterialSee DCC/RG/3/1 and D3346 for records of the Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner. See DCC/RG/3/3 for records of the Chesterfield Coroner.

Very few earlier records have survived for the Derbyshire Coroners. There are a small number of inquests between 1877 and 1890, see Q/SS/1/1-38. The Quarter Sessions collection also contains Coroners’ expense claims between 1754 and 1869, arranged by hundred and coroner, and often giving the place of inquest, name of victim, mileage and sometimes verdict, see Q/AF/8/1-41.

See also collection D6144 Rowbothams & Co. of Derby, solicitors which includes three expense ledgers kept by William and William Harvey Whiston when they were County Coroners between 1832 and 1916. The ledgers often include similar information to the expense claims under Q/AF/8.

See our Coroners Research Guide for more information about surviving records: https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/researchguides
TermCoroners records
Coroners
Useful Linkswww.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/deaths/coroner-service/coroner-service.aspx
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