Sneinton St Stephen, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
SNENTON (St. Stephen), a parish, in the union of Radford, S. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton and of the county of Nottingham.

Additional information:

The Ecclesiastical parish of Sneinton St Stephen was formed in 1771 as a chapelry within Nottingham St Mary the Virgin, Nottinghamshire Ancient parish and included Snenton Ville. Originally a village just over a mile from the centre of Nottingham it is now part of the City of Nottingham.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the history of this church Sneinton St Stephen

The Parish church of St Stephen has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Sneinton 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 1654-1962 Marriages 1655-1962 Burials 1654-1968 Bishop's Transcripts 1601-1824 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

Sneinton - St Stephen. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions dated from 1794, giving surname, given name, date of death, age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 59, pages 36-41, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Radford 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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