Bingham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BINGHAM (All Saints), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the N. division of the wapentake of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 10 miles (E.) from Nottingham; containing, with part of the township of Newton. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.

Additional information:

Bingham St Mary and All Saints is an Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire and includes Newton within the parish. The church has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Parish history

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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 (coverage may vary)

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Court Records
Transcribed by Peters, Doreen. Extracts from the Nottingham Quarter Sessions Minute Books 1802. A list of people who had Defective Weights and Measures, the Penalty and Costs, dated 26 April 1802. Surnames in Bingham: Skinner, Lomax, Huckerby, Brown, Baxter, Widnall, Stuff, Auckland, Parley, Clifton, Bates, Skillington, Smith. Article available at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QSM 1/34, also at The Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol. 123, pages 46-51.

Occupation
Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

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.

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Websites
Bingham in GENUKI