Boughton St Matthew, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Parish History
Boughton St Matthew was formerly jointly part of Kneesall, Nottinghamshire Ancient parish and is part of the civil parish of Ollerton and Boughton in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the history of the parish Boughton St Matthew

The Parish Church of St Matthew has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See also Ollerton and Boughton 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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop's Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection.

Census records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.&lt;br&gt;


 * England Jurisdictions 1851 *Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.