New Radford, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
RADFORD (St. Peter), a parish, and the head of a union, in the S. division of the wapentake of Broxton, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 1 mile (W. by N.) from Nottingham. This parish, which was part of the ancient forest of Sherwood. The old village is situated on the river Leen; the new one forms a modern suburb stretching from the western limits of Nottingham, on the Derby and Alfreton roads. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Radford's development created a number of parishes in New Radford and this page may refer to more than one parish:

Christ Church Cinderhill is within the New Radford area and was built as a chapel of ease to Basford, Nottinghamshire and the subsequent ecclesiastical parish  included Kensington, New Coleorton, and part of Hyson-Green Gazeteer reference to the parish

Southwell and Nottingham Church history project have researched this parish Cinderhill Christ Church

The church of Christ Church Cinderhill Nuthall Road has been designated as a grade II listed building listed building

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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Radford or New Radford in GENUKI