East Stoke, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STOKE, EAST (St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of Southwell, N. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 3¾ miles (S. W.) from Newark.

ELSTON, a chapelry, in the parish of East Stoke, union of Southwell, S. division of the wapentake of Newark and of the county of Nottingham, 5½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Newark. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

East Stoke St Oswald is an Ancient Parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project are researching this parish East Stoke St Oswald

The Parish church of St Oswald has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See also: East Stoke Wikipedia which includes links to the battle of Stoke Field

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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
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of East Stoke
Online Parish Records Table

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 - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Transcribed by Ivimey-Cook, Ann. A List of the Inhabitants of East Stoke in the County of Nottinghamshire 24 October 1828. Gives forename, and surname. Original held at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref DD.T 8/14, transcription in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 105, page 44, FHL Ref 942.52

Poor Law Unions
Southwell 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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Websites
East Stoke in GENUKI: East Stoke