Shelford, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes



Parish History
SHELFORD (St. Peter and St. Paul), is a parish, in the union of Bingham, S. division of the wapentake of Bingham and of the county of Nottingham, 8 miles (E. N. E.) from Nottingham; containing, with the townships of Saxondale, and part of that of Newton.

Additional information:

Shelford St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish which included Shelford with Newton, Newton, and Saxondale. Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the history of the parish Shelford St Peter and St Paul

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

See also Shelford Wikipedia and St Peter and St Paul Shelford 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 1563-2004 Marriages 1563-1993 Burials 1563-1992 Bishop's Transcripts 1627-1865 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

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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