Nottinghamshire

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Nottinghamshire

County town: Nottingham

Other major towns: Hucknall, Mansfield, Sutton in Ashfield, Beeston, Worksop, Arnold and Newark-on-Trent

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) and Harold Larwood (Cricketer).
The Nottinghamshire Registration Service is split up into 5 different Registration Districts, each district holds 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.

• Genuki Registration Districts

Register Offices

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

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

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

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Nottinghamshire Archives Kite Runner NOT during Sch Holidays

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Clarborough, St John the Baptist Lynn The Forest Fan
• Eastwood lisaht
• Gedling BC Pippa Doll
• Greasley lisaht
• Hayton, St Peter's Church (will take longer) Lynn The Forest Fan
• Kimberley lisaht
• Mansfield DC Pippa Doll
• Newark and Sherwood DC Pippa Doll
• Nuthall lisaht
• Shireoaks near Worksop Vicky the Viking

Please Note Pippa Doll, also available to take photos of other places of interest. (Patience required though.)

Links

• County Records Office
• Library Links
• Family Announcements (BMD's)
• Local History Society Gateway

Local History Society

• Family History Society

OPC

Archives

• IGI Nottinghamshire
• Sharon and Ian CHARLES website Site with some old Nottingham records - poll-books and trade directories mainly:
• 1754 Poll Book For the town of Nottingham.
• Nottinghamshire Stray Marriages in Lambley
• Index of Mansfield entries in local Quaker registers to 1837
• Hickling Parish Records
• Some Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Parish Records
• Some Nottinghamshire Parish Records

Family and Social History

• Nottingham Workhouses
• Southwell Union workhouse documents on line
• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum
• Transportation of Convicts to Australia
• Old Pubs, New Pubs and Alternative names
• Abstracts of names of parish clerks, proctors and schoolteachers, 1730-1864
• Hucknall Torkard History

Maps & Photographs

• Gravestone Photographs
• Images of Nottingham Nottinghamshire old and new.
• Alan Godfrey Maps Alan Godfrey Maps has three Ordnance Survey maps of old Nottingham
• Nottinghamshire Church Photographs
• Nottingham and Newark Town Map dated 1835
• Bassetlaw Museum to enable the purchase and digitisation of 20,000 negatives taken by professional photographers Edgar Welchman and Son of Grove Street, Retford between 1910 and 1960.

Countywide interest

• A Wealth of Genealogical Links for Nottinghamshire
• Old Nottinghamshire - History and links
• Nottinghamshire Genweb
• Convicts transported from Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions to Australia
• Nottingham Evening Post Death Notices December 1943

Specific Town Village interest

• Nottingham, the City - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine Various historical pieces about Nottinghamshire
• My Broxtowe Hundred Journal Looks like the site is still being developed, but some records go back to 1599.
• Nottinghamshire Parish Church Database
• Churches of the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
• Bingham Parish Records
• Bunny Village Census and Parish Records
• Lenton Parish & Priory Records
• The Ashfield War memorial project
• Welcome to Lost Mansfield, a collection of historical resources relating to the ancient town of Mansfield
• The history of Barnby-in-the-Willows
• Parliament Street Chapel & Burial Ground, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts ... few Burials Between 1775 & 1797

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