Hockerton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HOCKERTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Southwell, Southwell division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from Southwell.

Additional information:

Hockerton St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the church and parish Hockerton St Nicholas

The Parish church of Hockerton St Nicholas has been designated asa a grade II* listed building British listed building

See also Hockerton 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:

Hockerton St Nicholas

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1582-1904 Marriages 1582-1901 Burials 1582-1902 Bishop's Transcripts 1602-1850 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

Hockerton, St Nicholas. Alphabetical listing of Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1721, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 54, pages 1-2, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

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
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Hockerton in GENUKI