Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WIDMER-POOL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Bingham, S. division of the wapentake of Rushcliffe and of the county of Nottingham, 9 miles (S. S. E.) from Nottingham. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

Additional information:

Widmerpool St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish.

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated a grade II* listed building by English Heritage British listed building

See also Widmerpool 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 Widmerpool St Peter Baptisms 1539-2006 Marriages 1540-2005 Burials 1539-2006 Bishop's Transcripts 1604-1864 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

Widmerpool - St Peter. A transcription of memorial inscriptions in the Churchyard, dating from 1751, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol 63, pages 37-38, FHL Ref, 942.52 D25n

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Widmerpool in GENUKI