Scrooby Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

Scrooby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1628

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SCROOBY, a parish, with a village, in East Retford district, Notts; on the Great Northern railway, 1½ mile S of Bawtry. It has a r. station.

Acres, 1, 520. Post-town, Bawtry. Real property, £2, 980. Pop., 256. Houses, 61. The manor belongs to the Archbishop of York; and the manor-house was a palace of the Arch-bishops.

The living is a vicarage, annexed to Sutton-on-Lound, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is early English; and has a pinnacled tower, and a lofty spire.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Nottinghamshire, Scrooby – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Scrooby, 1628-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Scrooby (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Scrooby, Saint Wilfrid parish registers, 1695-1910
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Scrooby (Nottinghamshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Marriages at Scrooby, 1695-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Scrooby (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Scrooby – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Scrooby, Nottingham, England ; christenings, 1768-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Nottinghamshire, Scrooby – Court records ( 2 )
Court records for the Liberty of the Archbishop of York of Southwell and Scrooby, 1747-1837
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Nottinghamshire)

General quarter session minutes for the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, 1804-1829
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Scrooby – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records for Scrooby, 1738-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Scrooby (Nottinghamshire); Scrooby (Nottinghamshire)

Administration

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