Boughton St Matthew, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Boughton St Matthew was formerly jointly part of Kneesall, Nottinghamshire Ancient parish and is part of the civil parish of Ollerton and Boughton in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the history of the parish Boughton St Matthew

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

See also Ollerton and Boughton Wikipedia

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

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 Jurisdictions, Parishes B-D to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. It may be necessary to search for Kneesall, NottinghamshireScroll 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
Boughton (Bucheton or Bucton) in GENUKI: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Boughton/index.html

Kneesall (Kneesale or Chenesale) in GENUKI www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Kneesall/index.html