Misson Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Misson is an Ancient Parish partly in Lincolnshire and partly in Nottinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Newington.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1636
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MISSON, a village and a parish in the district of Doncaster; the village and most of the parish in Notts, and part of the parish in Lincolnshire.

The village stands on the river Id-le, near the Misson Levels or Car, 1½ mile E of the boundary with Yorkshire, 2¼ WSW of the boundary with Lincolnshire, and 3 ENE of Bawtry r. station; and has a post office under Bawtry.

The parish contains also the hamlet of Newington. Acres of the Notts portion of the parish, 6,129. Real property of the whole, £7,898. Pop., 803. Houses, 191. The area of the Lincolnshire portion has not been separately ascertained. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belonged once to Mattersey priory, and belongs now to R. Hett, Esq.

Misson Levels or Car is part of a wide and entirely flat plain, extending into Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, once covered with water, and now intersected by numerous drains or canals; and a base-line of the Trigonometrical survey was measured on it.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £359. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a pinnacled tower.

There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and an endowed school with £66 a year.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Nottinghamshire, Misson – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Parish chest and poor law records for Misson, 1650-1877
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Misson (Nottinghamshire)

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

England, Nottinghamshire, Misson – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Misson, 1600-1843
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Misson (Nottinghamshire)

Parish chest and poor law records for Misson, 1650-1877
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Misson (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Misson – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Mission, Nottingham, England ; christenings, 1763-1843
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Nottinghamshire, Misson – Occupations ( 1 )
Parish chest and poor law records for Misson, 1650-1877
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Misson (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Misson – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest and poor law records for Misson, 1650-1877
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Misson (Nottinghamshire)

Administration

  • County:    Nottinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Doncaster
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    Pre-1837 – York, Post-1836 – Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery:    Retford
  • Poor Law Union:    Doncaster
  • Hundred:    Bassetlaw
  • Province:    York