Worksop St Mary and St Cuthbert, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
Worksop Priory, St Mary and St Cuthbert is an Ancient Parish in the market town and included within its boundary Shireoaks and Haggonfield, Ratcliffe, Worksop and Radford, Clumber, Gateford, Haggonfield, Hardwick, Rayton, Manton, Kilton, Ryton, Scofton, Shireoaks, Sloswick, and Radford. The parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Anston cum Membris, Yorkshire and Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire.

From this parish were formed:

Worksop St John British listed building

Worksop St Anne British listed buliding



The Priory church of St Mary and St Cuthbert and priory remains have been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Worksop Wikipedia and Worksop Priory 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.

For history of civil registration in this area see Worksop Registration District

Church records
Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives

Worksop Priory (St Mary &amp; St Cuthbert) Baptisms 1559-1939 Marriages 1559-1936 Burials 1558-1908 Bishop's Transcripts 1609-1857

Worksop St John Baptisms 1867-1953 Marriages 1871-1938

Worksop St Anne Baptisms 1911-1956 Marriages 1913-1954 Burials 1947-1957 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

Note that from 1876 Scofton St John was formed from this parish

Scofton St John

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1876-1901 together with Sutton cum Lound Sutton cum Lound, Nottinghamshire Marriages 1878-1979 Burials 1878-1960

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Worksop 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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Web sites
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