Trowell, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TROWELL (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Basford, S. division of the wapentake of Broxtow, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 5½ miles (W.) from Nottingham. The parish is bounded on the west by the river Erewash, separating it from Derbyshire.

Additional information:

Trowell St Helen is an Ancient Parish in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire. Part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with Derbyshire neighbours Ilkeston, Derbyshire and Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the history of this parish Trowell St Helen

The Parish church of St Helen has been designated a grade II* listed building British listed building&lt;br&gt; fckLRfckLRSee also Trowell 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.

This area was from 1837 part of the Basford registration district

Church records
Trowell parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Basford 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Trowell in GENUKI