Colwick, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Parishes

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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Nottinghamshire
 * Hundred = Thurgarton
 * Poor Law Union = Basford
 * Registration District = Basford
 * PRbegin = 1569
 * BTbegin = 1601
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 * Diocese = Lincoln
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 * Rural Deanery = Nottingham
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 * Probate Court = Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
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 * Archive = Nottinghamshire Record Office

Parish History
COLWICK (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Basford, S. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton and of the county of Nottingham, 2½ miles (E.) from Nottingham.

Additional information:

Colwick is an Ancient parish.

The former church of St John the Baptist was adjacent to Colwick Hall and has been in ruins from 1937 and is now classed as a listed building at risk.

A modern church consecrated in 1951 serves the parish.

See also Colwick 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.

This area was from 1837 part of the Basford registration district

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts 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

Poor Law Unions
Basford 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
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