South Collingham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
COLLINGHAM, SOUTH (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Newark, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 5½ miles (N. N. E.) from Newark. There are two places of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

The parish of Collingham St John the Baptist was originally known as South Collingham and the extensive parish included Deanthorpe and Brough. the parish boundary forms the county boundary with the Lincolnshire parishes of Norton Disney, Lincolnshire and Stapleford, Lincolnshire

for history of the parish Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project

The church of St John the Baptist has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Collingham Wikipedia

See: Lewis,Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 663-668. here

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

This parish was from 1837 within Newark registration district

Certificates can be obtained from:

Newark The Register Office County Offices Balderton Gate Newark NG24 1UW 01636 705455 01636 679259 newarkro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

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 (coverage may vary)

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Newark 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
South Collingham in GENUKI