Shelton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes



Parish History
Shelton St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Ruschliffe district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project are researching this church and parish Shelton St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary Shelton has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Shelton Nottinghamshire Wikipedia

SHELTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Neot's, hundred of Stodden, county of Bedford, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Kimbolton.

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 1595-1901 Marriages 1596-1966 Burials 1598-1905 Bishop's Transcripts 1626-1853 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

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Bingham 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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