Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Colston Bassett is an Ancient Parish; the Church of St John the Divine which dates from 1892 has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

Colston Bassett has two churches; the ruined church of St Mary is some way distant from St John the Divine. The headsones in the burial ground at St Mary's ruined church have been designated as Ancient monuments by English Heritage.

The burial ground is at St Mary's; St John the Divine was completed in 1892 in memory of the death of the wife of Robert Millington Knowle, owner of the Hall.

See also Colston Bassett Wikipedia for external links to local history group See: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 663-668. here

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
See Nottinghamshire Census

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.

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Web sites
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