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Guide to Mission, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records. Also see: Mission, Lincolnshire.


Misson
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Nottinghamshire
Hundred Bassetlaw
Poor Law Union Doncaster
Registration District Doncaster
Records Begin
Parish registers 1636
Bishop's Transcripts 1600
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Retford
Diocese Pre-1837 - York; Post-1836 - Lincoln
Probate Court Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
Archive
Nottinghamshire Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]


MISSON, a parish, in the union of Doncaster, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 2¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Bawtry with the hamlet of Newington. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]

Additional information:

Misson St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish which included Newington and part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with neighbouring Wroot, Lincolnshire and Haxey, Lincolnshire. The village and civil parish of Misson is in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, Misson Springs to the north of Misson village forms the northernmost part of Nottinghamshire see Misson Wikipedia

RAF Misson operated from 1960-1963 see RAF Misson Wikipedia

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

  • Type the name of the parish in the search bar
  • Click on the location pin on the map
  • Choose Options from the pop up box
  • Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

Due to the increasing access of online records:

  • Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  • Dates in the following table are approximate

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Misson Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Nottinghamshire
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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FamilySearch Parish Registers – Nottinghamshire
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Findmypast Parish Registers-Nottinghamshire ($)
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Findmypast Banns-Nottinghamshire ($)
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1600s-1800s
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Ancestry-Nottinghamshire ($)
1500s-1800s
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1800s-1900s
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1500s-1800s
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1500s-1800s
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1800s-1900s
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Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death ($)
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Occupation[edit | edit source]

Transcribed by Bailey, Bryan, Certificates for Using Hair Powder Issued 1795-1978. For each Nottinghamshire Parish, gives the Cerificate no. date, surname, given name, and description. Article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol.127, page 1-38, FamilySearch Library Ref. 942.52 D25n - the original is at Nottinghamshire Archives Ref QDT 1/1-4.

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lincolnshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

Mission in GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted, date accessed: 08 December 2013.