Flintham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
FLINTHAM (St. Augustine), a parish, in the union and N. division of the wapentake of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 6½ miles (S. W.) from Newark. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Flintham is an Ancient parish.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have not yet researched the history of this church and parish Unresearched parishes

The church of St Augustine of Canterbury originated in the 12th century and had two restorations in 1828 and 1896 and has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Flintham 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
parish 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

Transcription of Memorial Inscriptions by Mr and Mrs G,. Peters 1992. Flintham - St Augustine's. Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1713 onwards. Gives an alphabetical listing, surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Society vol. 97, pages 35-40, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Flintham. A transcription of memorial inscriptions at Flintham, giving surname, given name, date of death and age, dated from 1772. The original is held at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref DD/TS 19/10, and the transcription is in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 64, pages 8-9, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n  A listing of later memorial inscriptions dated from 1937, vol. 69 pages 8-9, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Peters, Doreen. Flintham Stray Marriages. Residents of Flintham who were married in other Nottinghamshire Parishes, dated from 1588-1835, gives given name, surname and bride's given name and surname, place, where she lives, Parish where they were married. These marriages were extracted from the Nottinghamshire Phillimore vol. 1-20. Transcription in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine vol.115, pages 47-56. FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Occupation
Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites
Flintham in GENUKI