Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAWKSWORTH (St. Mary and All Saints), a parish, in the union and N. division of the wapentake of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 8 miles (S. W. by S.) from Newark.

Additional information:

Hawksworth is an Ancient parish; the parish church of St Mary and All Saints has been designated a grade II* listed building

British listed building

Hawksworth St Mary and All Saints 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:

Hawksworth St Mary and All Saints

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1569-1901 Marriages 1569-1903 Burials 1554-1901Bishop's Transcripts 1626-1852 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

Hawksworth - St Mary and All Saints. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions, dating from 1733, giving surname, given names, date of death and age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 57, pages 40-42,, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

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.

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
Hawksworth (Hawkesworth) in GENUKI