Syerston, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
SYERSTON, a parish in Southwell district, Notts: 3¼ miles ESE of Thurgarton r. station. Post town, Newark. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to East Stoke. The church is ancient.

Additional information:

Syerston All Saints was originally formed as a chapelry of East Stoke, Nottinghamshire but has a 12th century parish church and is in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

The Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the history of the church Syerston All Saints

The Parish Church of Syerston All Saints has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Wikipedia and RAF Syerston which was in Flintham, Nottinghamshire RAF Syerston

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
Syerston All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1567-1904 Marriages 1568-1900 Burials 1567-1903 Bishop's Transcripts 1602-1843 Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

1821 Census Syerston. Transcription gives forename, surname head of the household, with children marked within an age group, Original held at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref PR 394, transcription in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 95 page 52. FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Occupation
Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

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

Websites
Syerston in GENUKI