Nottingham St Nicholas

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Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Nicholas' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.

• The parish was in the Castle sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• In 1891 the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South West sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
   
• There was an earlier church here, destroyed in the Parliamentary War. The new church was rebuilt in 1678 as a plain red brick building with stone facings.
   
• The church is located at #79 Maid Marian Way in Nottingham.
   
• The church was enlarged in 1756 and again in 1783.
   
• The church organ was added in 1874 and it was enlarged in 1910.
   
• The church seats 600.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   

• The parish register dates from 1562 and is in good condition.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Castle sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• In 1891 the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South West sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   

This parish lies just east of Nottingham Castle.

David LALLY has a photograph of The Ned Ludd pub. on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2017.

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• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

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There is a War Memorial Window inside St. Nicholas' Church. It was dedicated on 26 November 1920. The inscription reads:

"To the Glory of God this window was erected by John Francis TOWNEND Esquire as an act of Thanksgiving for the safe return of his two sons from the Great War 1914-1919. ‘The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad.’"

There is also a brass plaque on a wooden base.

The names on the War Memorial are:

1. Percy Astill
2. Percy George Atkinson
3. Herbert Arthur Bird
4. George Blakeman
5. Joseph Bosworth
6. Clarence William Brinkworth
7. Albert Brown
8. Arthur Burton
9. John Ridsdale Burton
10. Harry (Henry) Caldwell
11. William Herbert Cocking
12. Charles W. Colgrave
13. Percy George Cook
14. Joseph Cooper
15. Thomas Cragg
16. Joe Dakin
17. Arthur Davis
18. Albert Percy Diggle
19. William Doncaster
20. Harold Duffin
21. John Finch
22. Sampson Glossop
23. William Goddard
24. Thomas Goode
25. Albert Knowles Greaves
26. James Green
27. Henry Hallam
28. George Frederick William Hanson
29. Joseph Harrison
30. Harold Foster Hodgett
31. Walter Hopewell
32. Richard William Hurling
33. Harry Hurst
34. Charles William Jenkins
35. Edward Johnson
36. Edward Jones
37. John Keetley
38. Charles Kendall
39. Albert Roland Kerridge
40. William Alfred Kerridge
41. William Henry King
42. Ernest Victor Knowles
43. Arthur Lee
44. George Henry Leeson
45. William Frederick Francis Long
46. Harold Lowater
47. George William Marriott
48. George Marshall
49. Frank Herbert Mayo
50. Thomas Henry Mayo
51. George Osborne
52. Tom Osborne
53. Arthur Parkin
54. George Louis Pendleton
55. Walter William Perry
56. Frederick Porter
57. George Porter
58. Edward Randall
59. Thomas Christopher Reesby
60. Alfred Richards
61. Stanley Richard Robinson
62. Harry Samples
63. Job Samples
64. Norman Marrison Shardlow
65. John Sharpe
66. George Lawrence Enoch Lotinga Smith
67. Arthur Hodson-Smith
68. William Smithson
69. Ernest Frederick Snow
70. John Edwin Snow
71. Alfred Spencer
72. Harry Spooner
73. Thomas Stephenson
74. Alfred Leslie Stevens
75. William Duncan Stevens
76. John Thomas Stockton
77. Jack Taylor
78. William Henry Tollington
79. John George Upton
80. Cyril Varley
81. Arthur Ernest Whetstone
82. Percy Williams
83. Alec George Wilson
84. John Wilson
85. Thomas Wilson
86. Charles William Woods
87. Bert Woodward
88. Henry Wootton
89. Arthur Worsdale
90. Walter Wright
91. Henry Wyer

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this clipping from the Derby Mercury of 9 December, 1802, MARRIED: "Yesterday, at St. Nichols's Church, Nottingham, by the Rev. Dr. WYLDE, Thomas SWINBURNE, Esq. banker, of this town, to Mrs Ward, relict of the late Archer WARD, Esq."

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county but did not became a modern Civil Parish until December, 1877.
   
• This place was incorporated as a part of Nottingham City in late 1897 when Nottingham received its charter as a city that same year as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
   
• You may contact the Nottingham City Council regarding political or civic matters, but they will NOT help you with family history searches. They are not funded for that.
   

• Bastardy Cases would be heard in the Nottinghamshire Petty Session Hearings.
   
• In 1723, St Nicholas' parish erected a workhouse on Gillyflower Hill.
   
• In 1813, The Gillyflower Hill workhouse was declared unfit for habitation and a large building at the bottom of Park Row was bought as a replacement. The old building was divided into tenements, known as Jessamine Cottages, and continued in use until 1945 when they were demolished.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	5,424
1851	5,846
1871	5,585
1881	5,355
1891	4,358