Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
MANSFIELD-WOODHOUSE, a village and a parish in Mansfield district, Notts. The village stands ¾ of a mile W of the river Maun, and 1½ N of Mansfield r. station; and has a post office under Mansfield. The parish includes part of Sherwood forest. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.

Additional information:

Mansfield Woodhouse is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire, created in 1736 from chapelry in Mansfield St Peter and St Paul, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched this parish Mansfield Woodhouse St Edmund King and Martyr

The church of St Edmund has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Mansfield Woodhouse Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 247-251. 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.

This area was in the Mansfield registration district from 1837; for registration district history Mansfield registration district

Certificates may be obtained from:

The Register Office County House 100 Chesterfield Road South Mansfield NG19 7AQ Phone 01623 476564 Fax 01623 636284 email:mansfieldro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

Church records
Mansfield Woodhouse St Edmund King and Martyr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1653-1952 Marriages 1657-1956 Burials 1653-1959 Bishop’s Transcripts 1626-1846

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

Military Records
Transcribed by Bailey, Brian. Mansfield Woodhouse Soldier's Furlough 1800-1801. Nottinghamshire Archives Ref PR 2104/1-5. Short letters regarding some Soldiers why they couldn't rejoin their Battalion, during 1800-1801. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 121, pages 45-47, FHL Ref. 942.52 D25n

Poor Law Unions
Mansfield 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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