Carrington, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
CARRINGTON, a village, in the parish and union of Basford, hundred of Broxtow, county of Nottingham, 2¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Nottingham. A church dedicated to St. John was consecrated in 1841.

Additional information:

Carrington St John the Evangelist, Mansfield Road, was created as an Ecclesiastical parish in Nottingham in 1843 from Basford, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project history of the church history

The church has been designated as a Grade II listed building.Carrington St John

See also Carrington 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.

This area was from 1837 part of the Basford registration district

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Basford 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