East Stoke, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STOKE, EAST (St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of Southwell, N. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 3¾ miles (S. W.) from Newark.

ELSTON, a chapelry, in the parish of East Stoke, union of Southwell, S. division of the wapentake of Newark and of the county of Nottingham, 5½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Newark. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

East Stoke St Oswald is an Ancient Parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project are researching this parish East Stoke St Oswald

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

See also: East Stoke Wikipedia which includes links to the battle of Stoke Field

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:

Elston Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Transcribed by Ivimey-Cook, Ann. A List of the Inhabitants of East Stoke in the County of Nottinghamshire 24 October 1828. Gives forename, and surname. Original held at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref DD.T 8/14, transcription in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 105, page 44, FHL Ref 942.52

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 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
East Stoke in GENUKI: East Stoke