North Clifton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CLIFTON, NORTH (St. George), a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Newark, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 12 miles (N. by E.) from Newark; containing, with the township of South Clifton, the chapelry of Harby, and the hamlet of Spalford. There is a chapel of ease at Harby, where also in South Clifton, are places of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

North Clifton St George the Martyr is an Ancient parish which included in its boundaries Harby, Spalford, and South Clifton. Part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with Newton on Trent, Lincolnshire

The church of St George the Martyr North Clifton is 13th century in origin and has been designated a grade II* listed building by English Heritage. British listed building

Church history

See also: Samuel A. Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 635-639. here

From this parish was formed:

Harby All Saints with Swinethorpe in 1875. Harby with Swinethorpe All Saints has been researched by the Southwell and Nottingham Church History project Harby with Swinethorpe All Saints

The church of Harby All Saints has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed bulding

See also Harby Nottinghamshire Wikipedia



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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.

This parish was from 1837 within Newark registration district

Certificates can be obtained from:

Newark The Register Office County Offices Balderton Gate Newark NG24 1UW 01636 705455 01636 679259 newarkro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

Church Records
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Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of North Clifton
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Newark 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Websites
North Clifton in GENUKI