Lenton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Lenton, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Parish History
LENTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Radford, S. division of the wapentake of Broxtow, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 1½ mile (S. W.) from Nottingham. At Hyson-Green is a second church, dedicated to St. Paul, and consecrated April 18th, 1844. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Lenton Priory Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1598- 1952 Marriages 1557-1956 Burials 1540-1973

Lenton Holy Trinity Bishop's Transcripts 1600-1837 Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Lenton - Holy Trinity Memorial Inscriptions. Article gives an alphabetical listing of surname, given names, date of death and age, starting 1853 onwards. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 97, pages41-43, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Radford Poor Law Union,Nottinghamshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Nottinghamshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Lenton in GENUKI