South Muskham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MUSKHAM, SOUTH (St. Wilfrid), a parish, in the union of Southwell, N. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 2¼ miles (N.) from Newark..

Additional information:

South Muskham St Wilfrid is an Ancinet Parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire and included South Carlton and Little Carlton.

The parish church of St Wilfrid South Muskham has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also St Wilfrid South Muskham 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:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1589-1901 Marriages 1589-1900 Burials 1597-1901 Bishop's Transcripts 1623-1861 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

South Muskham with Little Carlton Parish Registers 1659-1812, transcribed by Genda, Ruth. Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1660-1683, with subsequent years up to 1812, with a surname and placename index at the back. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 130, pages 3-70, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n v.130.

Vicars of South Muskham. A list of Vicars dating from 1295-1961. Church Wardens of South Muskham dating from 1581-1817, and a list of Parish Clerks from 1654-1909, Constables and Overseers of the Poor, Overseers of the Highways, with an Index of Place Names, and Surnames at end of article. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine vol. 130, pages 78-98, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n v130

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Websites
South Muskham in GENUKI