South Leverton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEVERTON, SOUTH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of East Retford, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 5¼ miles (E.) from East Retford; containing, with the chapelry of Cottam. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

South Leverton All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History group are researching the history of this church South Leverton All Saints

The parish church of All Saints has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See also South Leverton 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.

From 1837 this parish was within East Retford registration district Certificates may be obtained for post 1837 events : Bassetlaw The Register Office County Council Offices Chancery Lane Retford DN22 6DG Phone:01777 708631 Fax:01777 860667 Email:bassetlawro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

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

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Baptisms 1658-2001 Marriages 1659-1993 Burials 1658-2002 Bishop's Transcripts 1600-1864 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

South Leverton - All Saints Memorial Inscriptions. An alphabetical listing of surnames, given name, date of death and age, of the Memorial Inscriptions in the All Saints Church yard starting at 1779 - article in The Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.91, page 20-25, FHL Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
East Retford 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
South Leverton in GENUKI