Winkburn, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WINKBOURN, a parish, in the union of Southwell, Southwell division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 4 miles (N.) from Southwell.

Additional information:

Winkburn St John of Jerusalem is an Ancient Parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

The Parish Church of St John of jerusalem has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Winkburn 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 Wink burn St John of jerusalem Baptisms 1542-1988 Marriages 1553-1907 Burials 1545-1992 Bishop's Transcripts 1601-1773 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

Winkburn. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions dated from 1727, giving surname, given name, date of death, age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 59, pages 50-51, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Occupation
Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Winkburn (Winkbourn) in GENUKI