East Markham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
East Markham St John the Baptist is an Ancient parish which includes Sipthorpe Place and Markham Moor.

MARKHAM, EAST (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of East Retford, South Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 1½ mile (N.) from Tuxford. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

See East Markham 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.

From 1837 this parish was within East Retford registration district Certificates may be obtained for post 1837 events : Bassetlaw The Register Office County Council Offices Chancery Lane Retford DN22 6DG Phone:01777 708631 Fax:01777 860667 Email:bassetlawro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

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

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

East Markham - St John the Baptist. An alphabetical listing of the transcriptions of Memorial Inscriptions both inside and outside the Church dated from 1622, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Includes War memorials for W.W.1 and 2, and the Korea War. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 69, pages 25-36, Family History Library Ref 942.52 D25n

Census Records
Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
East Retford 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
East Markham (Great Markham) in GENUKI:East Markham