Awsworth, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
AWSWORTH, a chapelry, in the parish of Nuthall, S. division of the wapentake of Broxtow, N.division of the county of Nottingham, 7½ miles (N. W.by W.) from Nottingham.

Additional information:

Awsworth St Peter is an Ecclesiastical parish which was formed as a chapelry in Nuthall, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish.( The chapel was consecrated about 1760. A poor person from this chapelry is eligible to Ilkeston almshouse.) The church was rebuilt (except from the chancel) in 1902

The Awsworth Methodist Church was opened in 1884 as a United Methodist Free church.

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.

This area was from 1837 part of the Basford registration district

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Awsworth St Peter

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1756-1942 Marriages 1756-1940 Burials 1758-1933 Bishop’s Transcripts 1813-1836 (with Nuthall, Nottinghamshire) 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

Awsworth - St Peters. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions, inside and outside the church dating from 1836, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 57, pages 1-14, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Basford 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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Websites
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