Elston, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ELSTON (All Saints),a parish, in the union of Southwell, S. division of the wapentake of Newark and of the county of Nottingham, 5½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Newark; containing 259 inhabitants. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

Additional information:

Elston All Saints is an Ancient Parish

The parish Church of All Saints which was restored and rebuilt in 1856 has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Elston Chapel is a redundant Anglican Ancient Parish church in the village and civil Parish of Elston in the Newark and Sherwoood district of Nottinghamshire. The Chapel is now in the chare of the Churches Conservation Trust.Elston Wikipedia The chapel was declared redundant in 1976 Elston Chapel Wikipedia

The Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the history of the chapel Elston Old Chapel

Elston Old Chapel has been designated as a grade I listed Building British listed building

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Nottinghamshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Elston (Elveston) in GENUKI