Everton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire

Parish History
Everton Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish which includes Scaftworth, Everton with Drakeholes, Drakeholes, and Harwell.

Part of the parish boundary froms part of the county boundary with Yorkshire Bawtry, Yorkshire and Austerfield, Yorkshire are neighbouring parishes.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Everton like this: EVERTON, a township and a parish in East Retford district, Notts. The township lies near the Chesterfield canal and the river Idle, 2 miles E of Scrooby r. station, and 3 SE of Bawtry; and it includes part of Drakeholes hamlet, and has a post office under Bawtry. Pop., 605. Houses, 149. The parish includes also the township of Scaftworth, and the hamlet of Harwell. Acres, 4, 679. Real property, £8, 360. Pop., 849. Houses, 208. The property is much subdivided. Roman relics have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £209.* Patron, the Rev. W. Metcalfe. The church is tolerable; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £8.

Everton 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.

Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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

Web sites
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