Balderton, Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Balderton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Giles
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
- Newark on Trent
- Hawton
- Claypole
- Cotham
- Long Bennington
- Dry Doddington
- Barnby in the Willows
- Coddington
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BALDERTON (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Newark, S. division of the wapentake of Newark and of the county of Nottingham, 2 miles (S. E.) from Newark; containing 899 inhabitants. The parish comprises 3600 acres of land, with a clayey and sandy soil, and of which the Duke of Newcastle is one of the chief proprietors: the village consists of several well-built and substantial houses, and the surrounding scenery is agreeably diversified. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Farndon: the glebe comprises about 33 acres. The church is a very handsome edifice, principally in the later English style, with a lofty spire, and has a richly-ornamented Norman porch of exceeding beauty and in good preservation. A school has been endowed by William Alvey, with a rent-charge of £18.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch Catalog - Free
Census
Census returns for Balderton, 1841-1891
Church Records
Methodist Circuit registers for Nottingham, 1895-1967
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Poor law records of Balderton, 1735-1844 Author: Balderton (Nottinghamshire)
Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Newark
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Newark
- Poor Law Union: Newark
- Hundred: Newark
- Province: York