West Burton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BURTON, WEST (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Gainsborough, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 3¼ miles (S. S. W.) from Gainsborough.

Additional information:

The lost village of West Burton included the parish church of St Helen which was demolished about 1886 when the area became subsumed into the parish of North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire.

The remains of some buildings adjacent to the large West Burton electricity generating station and it's cooling towers cause some disturbance to the ground in the fields adjacent, the churchyard boundary forms a fence line to a field.

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 St Helen - later became St Mary &amp; St Cuthbert Baptisms 1603-1878 Marriages 1603-1876 Burials 1603-1874 (there are 3 subsequent entries 1952-1955) Bishop's Transcripts 1627-1837 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

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Gainsborough Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire

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
West Burton in GENUKI