Writing in the King's County (New Brunswick) Record, Diana Lynn Tibert described one of those hidden gems that genealogists love to uncover. If you have ancestors from the County of Derbyshire, England, you will want to spend some time on a web site called "Yesterday's Journey."
The "Yesterday's Journey" web site posts names and information found in official documents for the County of Derbyshire, England. These documents include wills, coroner reports, arrest warrants, indentured records, delinquent fathers and more. The details in the documents may include full name, date and place of birth, names of parents, spouses, children and employers, length of employment, military service and other pieces of information.
Derbyshire is a county located in the East Midlands of England. It shares its borders with Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Cheshire Counties. Although this database is specifically for Derbyshire, it often includes people from all over the British Isles as they worked and traveled in the county.
You can read more at http://kingscorecord.canadaeast.com/friendsneighbours/article/396740.
Ouch! Derbyshire, yes; County of Derby, yes; County of Derbyshire, nooooo. English shire names based on a town (e.g. Yorkshire [York], Cheshire [Chester]) take the form "County of [town]" for legal purposes, and this is generally followed in the wider, English context. North American useage will of course be different.
Posted by: Hugh Wilding | August 31, 2008 at 07:20 AM
Ouch!
County of Derbyshire - no, County of Derby - NO except, as we English like to confuse others, on registration documents.
However, once away from the legal stuff some counties are 'of'; some are always 'shires' and Derbyshire it is. Of course, to make matters even more confusing some counties, such as Norfolk and Suffolk, shun the county descriptor most of the time.
Go to somewhere like wiki, or Genuki for more detail.
Alternatively, if 'county' had been like this it would have been correct.
Posted by: martin morley | August 31, 2008 at 05:19 PM
Is Hunter an Irish name or a Scottish name?
Posted by: kathy | September 06, 2008 at 09:13 PM