Epperstone, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
EPPERSTON (Holy Cross),a parish, in the union of Southwell, S. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton and of the county of Nottingham, 10 miles (N. N. E.) from Nottingham. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Epperstone Holy Cross is an Ancient Parish; the village and civil parish of Epperstone are within the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire. See Epperstone Wikipedia

The Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the history of the church Epperstone Holy Cross

The parish church of Holy Cross Main Street Epperstone has been designated as a grade I listed bulding British listed building

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

Epperstone - Church of the Holy Cross. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions both inside and outside the church, dated from 1717, giving surname, given name, date of death, age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 59, pages 18-21, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Southwell 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
Epperstone (Eperston) in GENUKI