Nottingham St John the Baptist, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
NOTTINGHAM, a borough and market-town, forming a union and county of itself, locally in the wapentake of Broxtow, N. division of the county of Nottingham, of which it is the chief town. Nottingham, St. John the Baptist, is in the parish of St. Mary, it was consecrated in Nov. 1844. There are places of worship forBaptists, Independents, Wesleyans, the Society of Friends, Huntingtonians, Sabellians, and Unitarians; a synagogue; and a Roman Catholic cathedral. This last edifice is dedicated to St. Barnabas.

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Nottingham St John the Baptist was formed as an Ecclesiastical parish in 1844 from Nottingham St Mary the Virgin, Nottinghamshire.

Nottingham St John the Baptist Wikipedia(destroyed by enemy action in May 1941)

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
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

All at Sea 1861 Census. This article is an Alpabetical listing of surname, given name, age, Condition, Occupation, Place of Birth, Name of Ship and Reference number, for people born in Nottinghamshire, and either on a ship in port or at sea. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 99, pages 1- 7, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n,

All at Sea 1881 Census, same as the above, pages 8-15, with notes on the Ships at the end of the article.

Poor Law Unions
Nottingham 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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Occupations
Hammond, Peter. Nottingham Police Force. An Extract from the Nottingham Review 11 December 1840 with a list of all the Police on duty, and what place. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.123, page43-45, FHL Ref. 942.52 D25n