Nottinghamshire

Home of Robin Hood, and Lord Byron the poet, located in the East Midlands and bordered by Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire. Noted for its collieries and textiles, Nottingham lace being the finest around. Other notable manufacturers are Raleigh Bicycles, Jesse Boot (the Chemist), John Player. Nottingham’s famous inhabitants include Robin Bailey (actor), Eric Coates (composer), Torville and Dean (ice skaters) Harold Larwood (Cricketer), and D.H. Lawrence the author.

County town: Nottingham Other major towns: Mansfield, Hucknall, Beeston, Worksop, Newark-on-Trent Nottinghamshire Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• County Records Office

• County Library Gateway

• Nottinghamshire Family History Society

• Nottinghamshire Look Up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Nottinghamshire Archives Worldwide Catalogue

• Pigots 1830 Directory of Nottinghamshire

• Lost Village of Nottinghamshire

• Nottingham Evening Post, Death Notices December 1943

• Nottingham Evening Post Family Announcements (BMDs)

• Nottinghamshire Genweb

• A Wealth of Genealogical Links for Nottinghamshire

• Nottinghamshire History

• Nottingham Workhouses

• Old Nottinghamshire - Local & Family History

• Nottinghamshire Parish Records

• Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Parish Records

• Old Pubs, New Pubs and Alternative Names

• Parish Clerks, Proctors & Schoolteachers, 1730-1864

• Sharon and Ian Charles Nottinghamshire Research Site

• The Thoroton Society

• Transportation of Convicts to Australia

• Transported Convicts from Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions to Australia

• Catalogue of Presentment Bills in the Archdeaconry of Nottingham archive

• East Midlands Genealogy

Specific town and village interest

• One Thousand Years of Barnby-in-the-Willows

• Bingham Parish Records

• My Broxtowe Hundred Journal

• Census & Parish Records for Bunny Village

• Carlton-in-Lindrick

• Greasley Parish

• Greenhalgh Web

• Hickling Parish Records

• Hucknall Torkard History

• Hucknall-under-Huthwaite

• Jacksdale and Westwood

• Keyworth History

• Kings Clipstone Community

• Lambley Historical Society

• Lenton Parish & Priory Records

• Lenton Times

• Long Eaton and Sawley Archive

• Index of Mansfield Entries in Local Quaker Registers to 1837

• Welcome to Lost Mansfield

• Wiki page: Newark

• Newark - some Parish Register Transcriptions

• Normanton on Soar - a One-Place Study

• Welcome to the Lordship of Normanton on Soar

• Norton Cuckney

• Nottinghamshire Stray Marriages in Lambley

• Nottingham Goose Fair

• Nottinghamshire Parish Church Database

• Churches of the Diocese of Nottingham & Southwell

• Hodson's 1814 Directory, Nottingham

• Nottingham, the City - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line Magazine

• 1754 Poll Book For the Town of Nottingham

• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum

• Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project

• Southwell Union Workhouse

• Parliament Street Chapel & Burial Ground, Sutton-in-Ashfield

• The Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial Project

• Woodborough's Heritage

• Worksop Workhouse and Memories of Worksop

• Winthorpe Village History

Maps and Photographs

• Alan Godfrey Maps

• Nottingham and Newark Town Map dated 1835

• The Welchman Archive of Photographs

• Nottinghamshire Church Photographs

• Gravestone Photographs

• Images of Nottingham Nottinghamshire Old & New

Books of local interest

• Victorian Nottingham - Michael Payne, in the 'Pocket images' series. ISBN: 978-0-7524-4639-4
• Hucknall & District - Harry Smith, 'Pocket images' ISBN: 978-0-7524-4639-4
• Arnold & Bestwood - M.W. Spick, 'Pocket images' ISBN: 978-0-7524-4639-4

Register Office

The Nottinghamshire Registration Service is split up into 5 different Registration Districts, each district holding their own local records.

Because boundaries have changed several times over the years, it is often advisable to make a telephone enquiry to establish which Register Office holds the records you require. The main offices for each district are listed below, they can direct you to an alternative office if required.

The City of Nottingham

The Register Office
50 Shakespeare Street
Nottingham
NG1 4FP
Tel 0115 9475665
e-mail office.register@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Ashfield District

Basford Register Office
"The Woodlands"
Highbury Road
Bulwell
Nottingham
NG6 9DA
Tel: 0115 9271294

• Handwritten certificates (modern) while you wait, if they are not too busy.

Sutton-in-Ashfield District

Sutton Centre
High Pavement
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Nottinghamshire
NG17 1EE
Tel 01623 457677

Bassetlaw District

County Council Offices
Chancery Lane
Retford
Nottinghamshire
DN22 6DG
Tel 01777 708631

Mansfield District

Mansfield District Register Office
County Council Offices
Dale Close
100 Chesterfield Road South
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG19 7BD

Tel 01623 476564

• Typed certificates while you wait. Will do scans of the register if the condition is not too fragile.

Newark and Sherwood District

Newark District Register Office
County Council Offices
Balderton Gate, Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG24 1UW
Tel 01636 705455

Rushcliffe District

Rushcliffe District Register Office
The Hall
Bridgford Road
West Bridgford
Nottinghamshire
NG2 6AQ
Tel 0115 9815307

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our Volunteers Needed thread.

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