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1881 Census - RG 11/3450 and RG 11/3451
Registration Sub District of Matlock
Census transcripts for Matlock, Matlock Bath & District
 
3 April 1881

 
1881 Census
ED 10
ED11a ED11b ED 12
ED13a ED13b ED 14
ED 15 ED 16a ED 16b
ED 17
Surnames
A - B C - G
H - L M - R
S T - Y
Abbreviations
What's included
  • In 1881 Matlock and Matlock Bath were part of the Bakewell District.

  • 6094 names in the eight EDs transcribed and on this website.

  • Some households are on more than one census page in this census. This is particularly noticeable in Enumeration District 13.

  • To make your navigation easier and shorten download times, the three larger Enumeration Districts have been split into half and are named here either a or b.
 
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Description of the Enumeration Districts:

Enumeration District 10
RG11/3450 folios 14-24
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock comprising all the houses from a place called Chapel Hill also Scarthin Nick to a house occupied by Mr Lennox in Cromford Market Place inclusive. Holy Trinity Church Matlock Bath, Ecclesiastical Parish, Matlock Bath Urban Sanitary District. Also all Houses over The Cromford Bridge on the Northern Side, also Willersley Castle, Gardeners House and Farm. St. Giles, Matlock. M C Ecclesiastical Parish, Matlock Urban Sanitary District.

Enumeration District 11
RG11/3450 folios 27-49
ED11a ff.27-37
ED11b ff.38-49
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock comprising all the Houses from the Independent Chapel to the Residence of the Revd. E. Latham, inclusive, Holy Trinity, Matlock Bath Ecclesiastical Parish, Matlock Bath Urban Sanitary District.


Enumeration District 12
RG11/3450 folios 53-64
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock from the Residence of the Revd. Raymond E. Latham to the Limestone Quarries, Matlock Dale. Also all the Houses to Hall Dale, on the Western side of the River Derwent. Matlock Urban Sanitary District. St Giles Matlock R M C Ecclesiastical District.

Enumeration District 13
RG11/3450 folios 68-95
ED13a ff. 68-81
ED13b ff. 82-95
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock from the Moot Hall Mine to Hurker Hall, as far as the Northern side of Dob Lane leading from Matlock Bridge to Bent Lane. St Giles Matlock M C Ecclesiastical Parish. Matlock Urban Sanitary District.
(See Darley Dale, Hurker Hall (Farley) in another part of this web site)


Enumeration District 14
RG11/3450 folios 99-114
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock from the Southern Side of Dob Lane, leading from Matlock bridge to Bent Lane, to the Northern Side of the Chesterfield and Matlock Road. St Giles Matlock M C Ecclesiastical Parish.Matlock Urban Sanitary District.

Enumeration District 15
RG11/3451 folios 4-15
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock situated on the Southern Side of the Matlock and Chesterfield Road and on the Eastern side of the Matlock and Alfreton Road including part of Lumsdale, Cuckoostone Farm, Wold Farm, the Moor and all the Houses on the Eastern side of the Lane from The Duke of Wellington Inn. Holy Trinity Tansley and St Giles UC Ecclesiastical Parishes. Matlock Urban Sanitary District.

Enumeration District 16
RG11/3451 folios 19-41
ED16a ff. 19 - 29
ED16b ff. 30 - 41
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock comprising all Houses on the Southern side of the Matlock and Tansley and Alfreton Road including Cliff, Riber, Hearthstone, High and Low Lees, Littlemoor, Riber Side, and Matlock Town. St Giles Matlock M C Ecclesiastical District. Matlock Urban Sanitary District.


Enumeration District 17
RG11/3451 folios 45-54
  All that part of the Parish of Matlock comprising all the Houses situated in Starkholmes, Woodseats, Woodend, Bowwood, Meadow Wood, and all the Houses on the North Side of Lea Brook. Holy Trinity Tansley and St Giles Matlock M C Ecclesiastical Parishes. Matlock Urban Sanitary District.

This Enumeration District is the last one under Matlock.


Tansley follows on from here. ED18 covers RG11/345 ff.58-72 inclusive. ['The whole of the Hamlet of Tansley including part of Lumsdale. Holy Trinity Ecclesiastical Parish'].



Transcripts of the 1881 census of Matlock and District on this website are based on work done by the former Matlock Local History Group and reproduced with the very kind permission of Dr. Christopher Charlton on behalf of all those who did the original extracts. Enumeration Districts 10 and 11 are from the database compiled by Joseph Platts for his M.A. thesis and checked by Ann Andrews. Compilation on this web site by Ann Andrews. With my very grateful thanks to the above, to Doreen Buxton for photocopies, and to the National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), London.*