East Drayton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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



Parish History
DRAYTON, EAST (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of East Retford, South-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 4 miles (N. E.) from Tuxford.

Additional information:

East Drayton is an Ancient parish and had two chapelries at Askham, Nottinghamshire and Stokeham, Nottinghamshire

The Southwell and Nottingham Church History project have researched the church and parishEast Drayton history

There was a Wesleyan Chapel here.

See also East Drayton 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.

From 1837 this parish was within East Retford registration district Certificates may be obtained for post 1837 events : Bassetlaw The Register Office County Council Offices Chancery Lane Retford DN22 6DG Phone:01777 708631 Fax:01777 860667 Email:bassetlawro.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

East Drayton - St. Peter's. An alphabetical listing of Memorial Inscriptions, both inside and outside the Church, giving surname, given name, date of death and age, dated from 1722. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 82, pages 44-47, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

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.

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