Sibthorpe Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Sibthorpe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1720
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1613
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SIBTHORPE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Bingham, S. division of the wapentake of Newark and of the county of Nottingham, 6¾ miles (S. S. W.) from Newark; containing 154 inhabitants.
This place was anciently of some importance, and was the residence of the Burnell family, of whose spacious mansion, however, no remains now exist.
The parish is situated on the Cardike, and comprises by measurement 900 acres, of which two-thirds are arable, and 11 acres in woodland.
The living is a donative, in the patronage of the Duke of Portland; net income, £20. The church was originally much larger than it is at present; the aisles have been taken down, and the pillars and lofty arches of the nave are now worked into the wall of the building.
In the reign of Edward II., Thomas de Sibthorpe founded a chantry in the church, and subsequently erected it into a college for a warden, nine chaplains, three clerks, and four choristers; he also added four chapels, in honour of St. Anne, St. Katharine, St. Margaret, and St. Mary. The revenue of the establishment, at the Dissolution, was estimated at £31. 1. 2.
Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born here.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Bingham
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Newark
- Poor Law Union: Bingham
- Hundred: Newark
- Province: York