Sutton in Ashfield Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Sutton in Ashfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Huthwaite, Hucknall under Huthwaite, Hucknall, and Eastfield.

Alternative names: 

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1577
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1627

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Mansfield district, Notts. The town stands near the Nottingham and Mansfield railway, 3½ miles SW of Mansfield; is irregularly built; carries on cotton and thread-hosiery manufactures; publishes a weekly newspaper; and has a post-office under Mansfield, a r. station, a fine church with lofty spire, restored and enlarged in 1868, four dissenting chapels, a large national school, a provision market every Saturday, and stock fairs on Easter Tuesday and on the second Tuesday of Oct.

The township contains also Eastfield hamlet. Real property, £8,705; of which £150 are in gasworks. Pop., 6,483. Houses, 1,367. The manor belongs to the Duke of Portland. The parish includes the township of Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, and comprises 6,040 acres. Pop., 7,643. Houses, 1,611. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £330. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The sub-district includes also Skegby and Fulwood. Pop., 8,455. Houses, 1,768.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Survey of grave-stones in the parish churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield, county of Nottingham
Author:    Clay-Dove, W. (William)

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

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – Church records ( 7 )
Births and baptisms, 1775-1837
Author:    The Old Meeting House (Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire : Independent)

Births, 1760-1810
Author:    Baptist Chapel (Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire)

Births, 1760-1810
Author:    Baptist Chapel (Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Sutton-in-Ashfield, 1627-1823
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Sutton-in-Ashfield (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton in Ashfield, St. Mary Magdalene parish registers, 1577-1953
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Sutton-in-Ashfield (Nottinghamshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Marriages at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 1572-1837
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Sutton-in-Ashfield (Nottinghamshire)

Record of members, 1849-1908
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sutton-in-Ash Branch (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham ; christenings, 1813-1823
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham, England (Independent, the Old Meeting House) ; christenings, 1773-1837
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – Civil registration ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1684-1860
Author:    Sutton-in-Ashfield (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – History ( 2 )
History of Sutton-in-Ashfield : or past links with the present
Author:    Lindley, Luther

Sutton-in-Ashfield in times past
Author:    Clay-Dove, W. (William)

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – Land and property ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1684-1860
Author:    Sutton-in-Ashfield (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Sutton-in-Ashfield – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1684-1860
Author:    Sutton-in-Ashfield (Nottinghamshire)

Administration

  • County: Nottinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Mansfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Manor of Mansfield
  • Diocese: Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Nottingham
  • Poor Law Union: Mansfield
  • Hundred: Broxtowe
  • Province: York