Littleborough, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LITTLEBOROUGH, a parish, in the union of East Retford, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 8½ miles (E. by N.) from East Retford.

Additional information:

The redundant Anglican church of St Nicholas is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust Churches Conservation Trust.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project are researching the history of the Church Littleborough St Nicholas

The church of St Nicholas has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also St Nicholas Littleborough Wikipedia and Littleborough Nottinghamshire

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.

From 1837 this parish was within East Retford registration district Certificates may be obtained for post 1837 events : Bassetlaw The Register Office County Council Offices Chancery Lane Retford DN22 6DG Phone:01777 708631 Fax:01777 860667 Email:bassetlawro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

Church records
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Littleborough St Nicholas

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1670-1983 Marriages 1539-1985 Burials 1539-1977 Bishop's Transcripts 1609-1843 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

Census records
Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
East Retford 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
Littleborough in GENUKI