Nottinghamshire, England Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire

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

County Information
"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts, a midland county; bounded, on the N W, by Yorkshire; on the N E and the E, by Lincolnshire; on the S E and the S, by Leicestershire; on the W, by Derbyshire... Its greatest length, from N to S, is 50 miles; its greatest breadth, from E to W, is 27 miles; its circuit is about 150 miles; and its area is 526,076 acres...

" Notts contains 209 parishes, parts of 2 others, and 14 extra-parochial places...

"The places of worship within the electoral county, in 1851, were 248 of the Church of England, 21 of Independents, 14 of Particular Baptists, 14 of General Baptists, 23 of New Connexion General Baptists, 1 of Scotch Baptists, 2 of Baptists undefined, 3 of Quakers, 2 of Unitarians, 160 of Wesleyan Methodists, 15 of New Connexion Methodists, 78 of Primitive Methodists, 8 of the Wesleyan Association, 8 of Wesleyan Reformers, 4 of Independent Methodists, 1 of the New Church, 10 of isolated congregations, 1 of the Catholic and Apostolic church, 11 of Latter Day Saints, 5 of Roman Catholics, and 1 of Jews... (John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72).  To see the full account, go to Vision of Britain).

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Nottinghamshire.

Civil Registration Districts
List of Nottinghamshire Civil Registration Districts

Websites

 * Nottinghamshire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Nottinghamshire Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * To view a further list of web sites and/or web pages for Nottinghamshire and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.
 * A list of the parish registersheld by the Nottingham Archives is online.
 * A list of the Non Conformists records held by the Nottingham Archives is online.

Council Cemetery. Chilwell Council Cemetery - Field Lane.
An alphabetical listing of Memorial Inscriptions,, giving surname, given name, date of death, and age, dated from 1917. Article in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 78, pages 25-31, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n Nottinghamshire - General Hospital Chapel. Transcription of Memorial Inscriptions from inside the Chapel of some of the Staff dated from 1900, giving surname, given name, position they held, and date of death. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 87, page10, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Nottingham - The Religious Society of Friends, Quaker Meeting House, Clarendon St. An alphabetical listing of Memorial Inscriptions in the Church yard, giving surname, middle name, date of death, and age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 87, pages 15-16, FHL Ref. 942.52 D25n

Emigration-Immigration.
Holland, Barry. Across the Ocean Wide, an Index of those persons sentenced to Transportation in Nottinghamshire 1784-1867. An alphabetical list gives surname, given name, age, date, place in Nottinghamshire sentence given, Origin/crime, year destination and the ship on which they travelled. Included is folk with aliases. Surname index at back of article. Transcription in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 103, pages 1-105, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n vol. 103.

Military
Peters, Doreen. Sherwood Foresters' Militia - The killed and wounded. Extract from the Newark Herald, Saturday June 23, 1900. A listing of the soldiers killed or wounded at Roodeval North West Africa, from Nottinghamshire, giving surname, initials, position and their Military number in the Army, their descendant, and address of residence. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 111, pages 29-33, Family History Library Ref 942.52 D25n