Sutton Bonington St Michael, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Sutton Bonington St. Michael, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Parish History
SUTTON-BONNINGTON, a parish, in the union of Loughborough, S. division of the wapentake of Rushcliffe and of the county of Nottingham, 2 miles (S. E. by E.) from Kegworth. The living consists of the rectories of St. Anne and St. Michael. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.

Additional information:

The mediaeval parish of St Michael is the Ancient Parish church of Bonington in the Rush cliffe district of Notinghamshire.

Sutton Bonington village has two medieval churches, a result of the merging of the two original villages (Sutton and Bonington); they are St Michael's Church (Bonington's parish church, located on Main Street) and St Anne's Church (Sutton's church, located down St Anne's Lane) see Sutton Bonington St Anne, Nottinghamshire.

See St Michael's Church Bonington 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:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1558-1968 Marriages 1560-1979 Burials 1558-1900 Bishop's Transcripts 1600-1852 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

Sutton Bonington St Michael. Alphabetical listing of Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1765, both inside and outside the Church, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 54, pages 38-40, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Sutton Bonnington, Marlpit Hill Cemetery. Available on line, at the Nottinghamshire Family History Society. Transcription also given dated from 1913, in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 54, page 41-43, Family History Library 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
Loughborough Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

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
Sutton Bonnington in GENUKI

Sutton Bonnington, St. Michael in GENUKI