Edwalton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
EDWALTON (Holy Rood), a parish, in the union of Bingham, N. division of the wapentake of Rushcliffe, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 3½ miles (S. S. E.) from Nottingham.

Additional information:

Edwalton Holy Rood was formed as an Ecclesisatical Parish in 1739 from a chapelry in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish.

See Edwalton Holy Rood church history

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
Edwalton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Occupations
Bailey, Bryan. Edwalton Apprenticeship Indenture 1783.

Nottinghamshire Archives Ref PR 27,474.

Copy of the indenture dated 24 Jan. 1783, with names Ann Briggs, John Vincent, signatures of Thomas Flewit, Thomas Holmes and John Vinson, Sealed and delivered in the Presence of Thos Wright, Wm Vinson. Wm Coape Sherbrooke and Thos Charlton are listed as Justices of the Peace. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 119, page59. Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

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
Edwalton (Edwalston) in GENUKI: Edwalton