Warsop with Sookholme, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WARSOP (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 5¼ miles (N. N. E.) from Mansfield; containing with the chapelry of Sokeholme. In Sokeholme is a chapel of ease.

Warsop with Sookholme is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire. Other places in the parish include: Gleadthorpe Grange, Nettleworth, Warsop with Gleadthorpe Grange and Nettleworth, Sookholme, and Sokeholme.

Warsop may refer to two Ancient Parishes:

The parish church of St Augustine has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building



Church history Warsop St Peter and Paul

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building



see Church Warsop 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.

This area was in the Mansfield registration district from 1837; for registration district history Mansfield registration district

Certificates may be obtained from:

The Register Office County House 100 Chesterfield Road South Mansfield NG19 7AQ Phone 01623 476564 Fax 01623 636284 email:mansfieldro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

Church records
Warsop with Sookholme parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

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
Mansfield 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
Warsop in GENUKI