Gamston, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
Gamston St Peter is an Ancient parish; the church was restored in 1855 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gamston like this:

GAMSTON, a village and a parish in East Retford district, Notts. The village stands on the river Idle, near the Great Northern railway, 3½ miles S of East Retford; and has a post office under Retford. The parish comprises 2, 000 acres. Real property, £2, 367. Pop., 282. Houses, 62. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £282.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is later English, and good; and there is a Baptist chapel.

This parish should not be confused with Gamston near West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Gamston Bassetlaw 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
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
East Retford 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

Web sites
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