Park Leys, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Park Leys like this: PARK-LEYS, an extra-parochial tract in Southwell district, Notts; 4¾ miles N W by N of Newark. Acres, 310. Real property, £242. Pop., 10. House, 1.

PARK-LEYS, an extra-parochial district, in the N. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham; containing 10 inhabitants. In 1848 it consisted of one farm.

Neither of these gazetteers had much to say about Park-Leys.

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
Park Leys is an extra parochial area.

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

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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