Eakring Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Eakring is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1563
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EAKRING, a parish in Southwell district, Notts; 4 miles SSE of Ollerton, and 5½ NNW of Southwell r. station. It has a post-office under Newark. Acres, 2, 497. Real property, £3, 260. Pop., 650. Houses, 139. The property is divided among three.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £480. Patron, alternately Earl Manvers and the Earl of Scarborough. The church is ancient.

There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Will Scarlet, the friend of Robin Hood, is said to have resided in Eakring.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Nottinghamshire, Eakring – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Eakring, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Nottinghamshire, Eakring – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts of Eakring, 1603-1831.
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eakring (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Eakring, St. Andrew’s parish records, 1563-1864
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eakring (Nottinghamshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Marriages at Eakring, 1653-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eakring (Nottinghamshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1567-1702
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eakring (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Eakring – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Eakring, Nottingham, England christenings, 1758-1831
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Nottinghamshire, Eakring – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records for Eakring, 1768
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eakring (Nottinghamshire)

Administration

  • County: Nottinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Southwell
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Newark
  • Poor Law Union: Southwell
  • Hundred: Bassetlaw
  • Province: York