Thorpe, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
THORPE (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Southwell, S. division of the wapentake of Newark and of the county of Nottingham, 3 miles (S. W.) from Newark. The parish is situated about half a mile east of the river Trent, and of the old Fosse road from Nottingham to Newark.

Additional information:

Thorpe St Lawrence is an Ancient Parish in the village of Thorpe (sometimes called Thorpe-by-Newark) in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

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

See also Thorpe Wikipedia and St Lawrence's Church Thorpe 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
Thorpe parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

1821 Census Thorpe next Newartk. Shows head of the household, number of males and females within various age groups, within the household. Original held at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref PR 5799, transcription in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 95, page 53, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

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
Thorpe by Newark in GENUKI

Thorpe in the Glebe in GENUKI