Fledborough, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
FLEDBOROUGH (St. Gregory), a parish, in the union of East Retford, N. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 5¼ miles (E. by N.) from Tuxford.

FLEDBOROUGH, a parish in East Retford district, Notts; on the river Trent, 4 miles ENE of Tuxford r. station, and 5 ENE of Tuxford. It includes Woodcotes hamlet; and its post town is Dunham-on-Trent, under Newark. Acres, 1, 427. Real property, £2, 387. Pop., 115. Houses, 23. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln.

The church was known in the mid 18th century as a place for runaway marriages, with licences granted by its rector, Rev W. Sweetapple.

Additional information:

Fledborough St Gregory is an Ancient Parish which includes ; the church is a redundant Anglican church designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building and now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Fledborough Wikipedia English heritage listing

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:

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Fledborough - St. Gregory's. An alphabetical listing of transcription of Memorial Inscriptions, giving surname, given name, date of death and age, dated from 1725, both inside and outside the church. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 82, pages 18-19, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

Census Records
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


 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Fledborough in GENUKI: Fledborough