Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Newstead Priory

Guide to Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire
Type	Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Broxtow
County	Nottinghamshire
Poor Law Union	Basford
Registration District	Basford
Records begin
Parish registers: For records see surrounding parishes
Bishop's Transcripts: For records see surrounding parishes
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not Applicable
Diocese	Not Applicable
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
Location of Archive
Nottinghamshire Record Office

Parish History

NEWSTEAD-PRIORY, an extra-parochial liberty in Basford district, Notts; adjacent to the Nottingham and Mansfield railway, S W of Sherwood forest, and 5 miles S of Mansfield. It has a station on .the railway, private on most days, but public on Saturdays.

Additional information:

Newstead Priory is an extra parochial area; Newstead Abbey which was formed from the original priory was Lord Byron's ancestral home.

Byron described the ruined priory:

"A glorious remnant of the Gothic pile
stood half apart
In a grand arch which once screened many an aisle.
These last had disappeareda loss to art:
The first yet frowned superbly o'er the soil,
And kindled feelings in the roughest heart,
Which mourned the power of Time's or Tempest's march,
In gazing on that venerable arch."

For history of Newstead abbey see Newstead abbey Wikipedia

Resources

Cemetery

Newstead Colliery Village Burial Ground.  . A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions, dating from 1885, giving surname, given names, date of death and age. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 57, pages 43-45, FHL Ref 942.52 D25n

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

Newstead Priory and Abbey is an extra parochial area.

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

War Memorial - Newstead Colliery Village.  Transcription of the W.W.1 and 2 War Memorial, giving the surname, initial of the given name, and the Battalion they belonged to.  Article in The Nottinghamshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol.87, page 40, FHL Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

See Nottinghamshire Census

Occupation

Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

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.

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