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DERBYSHIRE DIRECTORY

ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

CHESTERFIELD LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARY

a Chesterfield Library, New Beetwell Street, Chesterfield S40 1QN

t 01629 533400

e chesterfield.library@ derbyshire.gov.uk

w derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/ local-studies/local-studies-libraries/ chesterfield-local-studies/chesterfield-local-studies-library.aspx

The local studies collection is based on the upper floor of Chesterfield Library. The website has details of holdings, and you can download an Excel document containing an index to announcements of births, marriages and deaths in the Derbyshire Times between 1900 and 1919. There’s also an online wills database compiled by the Chesterfield and District Family History Society (1858–1928), which is available at apps. derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/derbyshire-wills-search.

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