Kneeton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire  Nottinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
KNEETON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 7¾ miles (S. W. by W.) from Newark. This parish, which is bounded on the west by the river Trent, and on the east by the Roman Fosse-road.

Additional information:

Kneeton St Helen is an Ancient Parish.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have not yet researched the history of this church and parish Unresearched parishes

The Parish church of St Helen has been designated a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Kneeton Wikipedia

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

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1592-1901 Marriages 1592-1899 Burials 1592-1903 Bishop’s Transcripts 1627-1866 Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Kneeton (Kneveton) in GENUKI: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Kneeton/index.html