Newark on Trent, St Leonard, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Newark on Trent, St Leonard, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Parish History
Newark St Leonard is an Ecclesiastical Parish in Newark on Trent formed in 1873 to serve the needs of the expanding town.

The Original church of St Leonard was replaced by the present church, see Newark St Leonard and the Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project are researching the history of the church and parish. See also Parish webpage

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

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Newark St Leonard Baptisms 1873-1969 Marriages 1874-1952 Burials 1919-1970

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.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Newark 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|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