Bingham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BINGHAM (All Saints), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the N. division of the wapentake of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 10 miles (E.) from Nottingham; containing, with part of the township of Newton. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.

Additional information:

Bingham St Mary and All Saints is an Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire and includes Newton within the parish. The church has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Parish history

See Bingham Wikipedia

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

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

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Court Records
Transcribed by Peters, Doreen. Extracts from the Nottingham Quarter Sessions Minute Books 1802. A list of people who had Defective Weights and Measures, the Penalty and Costs, dated 26 April 1802. Surnames in Bingham: Skinner, Lomax, Huckerby, Brown, Baxter, Widnall, Stuff, Auckland, Parley, Clifton, Bates, Skillington, Smith. Article available at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QSM 1/34, also at The Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 123, pages 46-51.

Occupation
Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

Poor Law Unions
Bingham 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
Bingham in GENUKI