Brewhouse Yard, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BREWHOUSE YARD, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Radford, S. division of the Wapentake of Broxtow, N. division of the county of Nottingham. A society, called the"Philadelphians," or the"Family of Love," from the love they professed to bear all men, even the most wicked, used to meet here; their founder was one David George, an Anabaptist, of Holland, who first propagated his doctrines in Switzerland, where he died in 1556.

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 FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Radford 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
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