Thorpe, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
Thorpe St Lawrence is an Ancient Parish in the village of Thorpe (sometimes called Thorpe-by-Newark) in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

The Parish Church of St Lawrence has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Thorpe Wikipedia and St Lawrence's Church Thorpe 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.

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

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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