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

 

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