Hickling, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HICKLING (St. Luke), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 8¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Melton-Mowbray. This parish is situated within two miles of the road from Melton-Mowbray to Nottingham. The Nottingham and Grantham canal passes close to the village. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Hickling St Luke is an Ancient parish and part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with Leicestershire with neighbours Long Clawson, Leicestershire and Nether Broughton, Leicestershire.

The church of St Luke has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage British listed building

See also Hickling 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Hickling St Luke

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1646-2010 Marriages 1646-1978 Burials 1646-1975 Bishop's Transcripts 1621-1841 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

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Military
War Memorial - Hickling Village. A transcription of the marble plaque of Memorial Inscriptions for W.W.1 and 2, on the outside wall of the village Hall/School, giving surname and christian names. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 87, page 58, FHAL Ref 942.52 D25n

Poor Law Unions
Bingham 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
Hickling in GENUKI