Bingham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BINGHAM (All Saints), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the N. division of the wapentake of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 10 miles (E.) from Nottingham; containing, with part of the township of Newton. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.

Additional information:

Bingham St Mary and All Saints is an Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire and includes Newton within the parish. The church has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Parish history

See Bingham 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:

Bingham All Saints

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1598-1963 Marriages 1598-1959 Burials 1598-1958 Bishop's Transcripts 1608-1865 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

Bingham St Mary and All Saints. An alphabetical listing of transcription of Memorial Inscriptions both inside and outside the Church, dating from 1705, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 70, pages 35-40, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Bingham Council Cemetery. An alphabetical listing of transcription of Memorial Inscriptions, dating from 1880, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 70, pages 24-35, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Court Records
Transcribed by Peters, Doreen. Extracts from the Nottingham Quarter Sessions Minute Books 1802. A list of people who had Defective Weights and Measures, the Penalty and Costs, dated 26 April 1802. Surnames in Bingham: Skinner, Lomax, Huckerby, Brown, Baxter, Widnall, Stuff, Auckland, Parley, Clifton, Bates, Skillington, Smith. Article available at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QSM 1/34, also at The Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 123, pages 46-51.

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
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.

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Websites
Bingham in GENUKI