Dunham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Dunham-on Trent St Oswald is an Ancient Parish.

From this parish chapelries at Ragnall, Nottinghamshire and Darlton, Nottinghamshire were formed.

The Parish church has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building

Southwell and Nottingham Church History

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

DUNHAM, a village and a parish in East Retford district, Notts. The village stands on the river Trent, 5 miles ENE of Tuxford r. station, and 10 SE of East Retford; was once a market-town; and has now a fair on 12 Aug., and a post office, of the name of Dunham-on-Trent, under Newark. The parish, jointly with Ragnall, comprises 2, 030 acres. Real property of Dunham only, £2, 570. Pop., 327. Houses, 73. The land lies low; and much of it is subject to inundation. A cast-iron bridge over the Trent here was erected in 1832 by Leather; and has four arches, each 118 feet in span, and a total length of 563 feet. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Darlton and Ragnall, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £370.* Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church was restored in 1862. There is a chapel of ease at Darlton. There are also a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £7.

see: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 102-105. here

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

Census records
Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
East Retford 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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