Kirton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
KIRKTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Southwell, South-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 2¾ miles (N. E. by E.) from Ollerton. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

Additional information:

Kirton Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish which included Willoughby; the village and civil parish of Kirton is part of the newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire .Kirton Wikipedia

The Southwell and Nottingham Church History project are researching the church and parish history Kirton Holy Trinity

The parish church of Holy Trinity has been designated as a grade II* listed building British Listed Building

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
Kirton Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1538-1963 Marriages 1538-1959 Burials 1539-1904 Bishop’s Transcripts 1616-1838 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

Kirton - Holy Trinity. Transcription of Memorial Inscriptions inside and outside the church, dating from 1766 giving surname, given names, date of death and age at death. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 91, pages 29-31, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

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
Kirton in GENUKI: Kirton