Reference Section
Population
Civil Registration
Parish Registers
Books about Sutton-in-Ashfield
Population
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1821 | 3,943 | 1828 Pigot's Directory |
| 1831 | 4,805 | 1832 White's Directory |
| 1841 | 6,563 | 1841 Census |
| 1851 | 6,554 | 1853 White's Directory |
| 1861 | 7,643 | 1864 White's Directory |
| 1871 | 7,574 | 1888 Wright's Directory |
| 1881 | 8,523 | 1888 Wright's Directory |
| 1888 | 9,000 est | 1888 Wright's Directory |
| 1891 | 10,562 | 1900 Kelly's Directory |
| 1901 | 14,862 | 1912 Kelly's Directory |
| 1911 | 21,708 | 1922 Kelly's Directory |
| 1921 | 23,852 | 1922 Kelly's Directory |
Additional population figures for Hucknall Huthwaite
| 1871 | 1,547 | 1900 Kelly's Directory |
| 1881 | 2,028 | 1900 Kelly's Directory |
| 1891 | 3,022 | 1900 Kelly's Directory |
Civil Registration
Sutton-in-Ashfield and Huthwaite are within the Mansfield Registration District. Enquiries regarding births, marriages and deaths after July 1837 can be sent to:
Register Office
County Council Offices
St Johns Street
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 1QH
Tel (01623) 663564
Parish Registers
St Mary's parish registers date from 1577 for baptisms, marriages and burials. Bishops
Transcripts cover from 1627-1823.
Microfiche copies of the registers up to 1900 are held at Nottingham Archives and the
libraries at Sutton, Mansfield, Mansfield Woodhouse, Hucknall and Nottingham.
Sutton's marriages are included on Boyd's Marriage Index, covering 1651-1675, and Phillimore's Marriage Transcript covering 1577-1812 and 1813-1837.
Baptisms and Marriages covering 1813-1823 are included on the International Genealogical Index. Baptisms and Marriages covering 1627-1812 are on the British Isles Vital Records CD-Rom. (all taken from the Bishops Transcripts)
Books about Sutton-in-Ashfield
History of Sutton-in-Ashfield
by Luther Lindley, pub. 1907
[Reprinted by Peter J. Naylor in 1993]
A History of Sutton-in-Ashfield
by George Gershom Bonser, pub. 1949
Sutton-in-Ashfield in times past
by W. Clay-Dove, pub. 1978
Sutton-in-Ashfield in old picture postcards
by W. Clay-Dove, (undated)
The Story of our Parish Church; St Mary Magdalene
Sutton-in-Ashfield
by W. Clay-Dove, pub. 1982
Sutton-in-Ashfield, with Huthwaite and Stanton Hill, on old picture postcards
by David Ottewell, pub. 1993
Britain in Old Photographs - Sutton-in-Ashfield
By J. Barrie Smith, pub. 1996
Sutton's Millennium Milestones
by Sutton Living Memory Group, pub. 2000
Page created 19 February 2001 by Heather Faulkes - updated 28th March 2004