Sutton Bonington St Michael, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
The mediaeval parish of St Michael is the Ancient Parish church of Bonington.

Sutton Bonington village has two medieval churches, a result of the merging of the two original villages (Sutton and Bonington); they are St Michael's Church (Bonington's parish church, located on Main Street) and St Anne's Church (Sutton's church, located down St Anne's Lane) see Sutton Bonington St Anne, Nottinghamshire.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sutton Bonington like this:

SUTTON-BONNINGTON, a village and two parishes in the district of Loughborough and county of Nottingham. The village stands near the river Soar, 1 mile S by E of Kegworth r. station, and 10½ SSW of Nottingham; and has a post-office under Loughborough. The parishes are St. Ann and St. Michael. Acres, 1,910. Real property, £6,266. Pop., 381 and 638. Houses, 92 and 154. The manor of St. Ann belongs to W. Paget, Esq.; and that of St. Michael, to G. E. Paget, Esq. The livings are rectories in the diocese of Lincoln. Value of St. A., £270; of St. M., £700. Patron of St. A., the Lord Chancellor; of St. M., the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church of St. A. is old; and that of St. M. is a fine edifice, with tower and lofty spire. There are two dissenting chapels, an endowed school for boys with £52 a year, a subscription school for girls, and charities £12.

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
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Loughborough Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

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

Web sites
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