Upton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
UPTON, a parish, with a village, is in Southwell district, of Notts; 2 miles E of Southwell railway station. It has a post-office under Southwell, and contains Southwell workhouse. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Additional information:

Upton St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient parish in the Newark and Sherwood District of Nottinghamshire.

The parish Church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Upton Newark and Sherwood Wikipedia

This parish should not be confused with Headon cum Upton, Nottinghamshire elsewhere in the county and diocese

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
Upton St Peter and St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1585-2007 Marriages 1580-2007 Burials 1580-1987 Bishop's Transcripts 1633-1843 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

Bailey, Brian. Misterton Scrapbook. The Scrapbook mainly concerns Methodism and was possibly compiled by James Stothard of Misterton, a farmer. He included the Gainsborough (Wesleyan Methodist) circuit which included West Stockwith, Misterton, Beckingham, Walkeringham, Sturton and Bole with a list of members, some starting as early as 1817. The original is held at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref DD 793/1. Transcription is in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 121, pages 73-88 with an alphabetical listing. FHL Ref. 942.52 D25n

Upton. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1702, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. The original is held at Nottinhamshire Archives Ref DD/TS 19/32 and article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Magazine vol. 64, page 29, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Southwell 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
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Upton in GENUKI