New Basford, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
New Basford is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire, created in 1847 from Basford, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish.

The church of St Augustine of England was formed a parish in 1847 from the parish of Basford; the church was built in 1852, a south aisle was added in 1877. This church was demolished in 1989. You can view a photograph of this church at Picture the Past website

New Basford is a suburb of Nottingham for history of its development see Basford wikipedia

BASFORD, a village, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district in Notts. The village is called also Old Basford. It stands on the river Leen, adjacent to the Nottingham and Mansfield railway, in a luxuriant valley, 3 miles NNW of Nottingham; and has a station of the name of Basford, on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Old Basford, under Nottingham. The parish includes also New Basford, Bagthorpe , Carrington , Sherwood , Mapperley , Two-mile House , Bagnall , White-Moor-Place , and part of the hamlet of Daybrook.

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.

This area was from 1837 part of the Basford registration district

Church records
Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1849-1989 Marriages1877-1966 Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Basford 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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