Granby, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
GRANBY (All Saints), is a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Bingham. This parish, includes the hamlet of Sutton. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Granby All Saints is an Ancient parish and its boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Barkestone, Leicestershire Plungar, Leicestershire Redmile, Leicestershire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the history of this church and parish Granby All Saints

All Saints parish church has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building See also Granby 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Granby All Saints

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1567-1900 Marriages 1567-1972 Burials 1567-1926 Bishop’s Transcripts 1601-1864 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

Granby and Sutton - Parish Burial Ground. An alphabetical listing of Memorial Inscriptions, giving surname, given name, date of death and age, dated from 1851. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 82, pages 14-17, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

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
Granby in GENUKI