Bawtry, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Bawtry is a market Town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, Yorkshire although it's Anglican ecclesiastical history within the Retford Deanery of Southwell and Nottingham means that its parochial history are linked to it's mother Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire.

Bawtry St Nicholas was formed originally as a chapelry of Blyth, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish and neighbours Everton, Nottinghamshire Scrooby, Nottinghamshire and Harworth, Nottinghamshire but was in the county boundary of Yorkshire with neighbour Austerfield, Yorkshire to the north of its boundary.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the history of the church and parish Bawtry St Nicholas

The Parish church of St Nicholas Bawtry Doncaster which dates from the 12th century has been designated as a Grade I listed building British listed building

See also: Bawtry Wikipedia for a history of the town and Lewis, A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 177-181. here for an 1848 gazetteer entry. For further information about the Southwell diocese (until 2005 renaming) see Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Wikipedia

There are Independent and Wesleyan Methodist congregations in the town; see Bawtry Churches Together website



Civil Registration
Primary registration of births, marriages and deaths took place at the Doncaster registration district has been included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search. Marriages include


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

Church records
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1653-1960 Marriages 1653-1961 Burials 1654-1947 Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online

Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Census records
See Yorkshire Census

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

Since the parish is in the diocese of Southwell it is necessary to search records of the Court of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham see Nottinghamshire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes B-D for Blyth, Nottinghamshire

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

Web sites
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