Boughton St Matthew, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Boughton St Matthew was formerly jointly part of Kneesall, Nottinghamshire Ancient parish and is part of the civil parish of Ollerton and Boughton in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the history of the parish Boughton St Matthew

The Parish Church of St Matthew has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Ollerton and Boughton 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:

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.

Boughton St Matthew Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1686-1907 Marriages 1685-1901 Burials 1686-1907 Bishop's Transcripts 1600-1861 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.

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 Jurisdictions, Parishes B-D to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. It may be necessary to search for Kneesall, NottinghamshireScroll 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
Boughton (Bucheton or Bucton) in GENUKI: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Boughton/index.html

Kneesall (Kneesale or Chenesale) in GENUKI www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Kneesall/index.html