Bulcote, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BULCOTE, a chapelry, in the parish of BurtonJoyce, union of Southwell, S. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton and of the county of Nottingham, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Nottingham. The tithes were commuted for land in 1768.

Additional information:

Bulcote Holy Trinity was built in 1862 to replace the former 13th century chapelry of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire Ancient parish on the site.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the history of the church Bulcote Holy Trinity

The church of Holy Trinity, a chapel of ease, has been designated as a grade II listed building by English Heritage British listed building

The village and civil parish of Bulcote are 7 miles north east of Nottingham City Centre.

See also: Bulcote Wikipedia here

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
Bulcote 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

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain