Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
Rufford Abbey is an extra parochial place and contains the ruined Cistercian Abbey which did not survive the dissolution of the monasteries. The estate later became a home to the Earls of Scarborough and is now owned as managed as a Country park by Nottinghamshire County Council.

The history of the estate is described Worksop Heritage Trail

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rufford like this: RUFFORD, an extra-parochial liberty in Southwell district, Notts; 2 miles S S W of Ollerton. Acres, 10, 320. Real property, £5, 260. Pop., 420. Houses, 74. The manor, with Rufford Abbey, belongs to H. Savile, Esq. A Cistertian monastery, a cell to Rievaulx abbey, stood on the site of R. Abbey; was founded, in 1148, by Gilbert de Ghent; and was given to the Talbots. A Roman settlement also was in Rufford. Much of the land isunder wood.

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
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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