Morton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes



Parish History
Morton St Denis or Denys is a Parish church which dates from 1756. Morton is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood District of Nottinghamshire Morton Wikipedia

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project have researched the church and parish history Morton St Denis

The Parish Church of St Denis has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

MORTON (St. Denis), a parish, in the union of Southwell, Southwell division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 2½ miles (S. E.) from Southwell.

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
Morton St Denis parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1640-2008 Marriages 1640-2007 Burials 1640-2007 Bishop’s Transcripts 1622-1846

Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 [https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/your_council/contact/contactus.

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.

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