Tuxford Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Tuxford is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Nottinghamshire.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1624
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TUXFORD, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in East Retford district, Notts.

The village stands ¾ of a mile W of the Great Northern railway, and 7 S by E of East Retford; was greatly devastated by a fire in 1702, and mainly rebuilt afterwards; carries on malting, nail-making, and brick-making; and has a post-office under Newark, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, an ancient church in good repair, a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £49 a year, a national school, charities £60, a weekly market on Monday, and fairs on 12 May and 2 Oct.

The parish comprises 3,000 acres. Real property, £5,934; of which £70 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,211; in 1861, 1,034. Houses, 243. The manor belongs to the Duke of Newcastle.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £260. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The sub-district contains 16 parishes and a part. Acres, 25,039. Pop., 4,998. Houses, 1,116.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Nottinghamshire, Tuxford – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Tuxford, 1598-1843
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Tuxford (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Tuxford, St. Nicholas parish registers, 1624-1849
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Tuxford (Nottinghamshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Marriage licences, 1824-1887
Author:    Church of England. Archdeaconry of Nottingham

England, Nottinghamshire, Tuxford – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Tuxford, Nottingham, England ; christenings, 1813-1843
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Nottinghamshire, Tuxford – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest records, 1706-1944
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Tuxford (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Tuxford – Public records ( 1 )
Parish chest records, 1706-1944
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Tuxford (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