Nottingham St Peter's

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Garden at Bromley House Library on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2016.

The churchyard was closed to new graves in 1856.

Church Cemetery, commonly known as Rock Cemetery, is a burial ground to the north of the City of Nottingham, founded in 1848, designed by Edwin PATCHITT, clerk to the City Magistrates, and opened in 1856, even though it was not finished by then. A church was included in the design, which gave the cemetery its name, however this was never built.

Gallows Hill which is at the entrance, where the gates have been built, was where executions took place; between 1800 and 1827, there were 28 for an assortment of crimes – forgery, burglary, murder of a baby, theft, rape, housebreaking, arson, murder, shooting. The last on this site was on April 2nd 1827, when William WELLS was executed, for the crime of highway robbery.

• 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 Peter.
   
• This original Norman church was built here around 1100, but was destroyed by a fire.
   
• The present church was first constructed in 1180.
   
• This church tower and spire were completed in 1340.
   
• The church was occupied by Royalist troops attacking Nottingham Castle during the English Civil War.
   
• This church was restored during the period of 1876 - 1891.
   
• In 1624 the parish paid for a new bell for the town crier and made note of the fact that they had paid for it to be cast and that it belonged to the parish.
   
• There was more church restoration in the 1920s.
   
• The church seats 800.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Peter's Church tower and spire on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2019.
   
• For more information, see the St. Peter website.
   

The parish register dates from 1570 and is in good condition. The rectors were fined for not keeping the register before 1570.

Rita EFFNERT has kindly provided us with an index of Marriages for 1572 through 1813. The file is a Comma-Separated Value (or .csv) file, suitable for import into MS Excel or Works as a database:

• Click here to view the CSV file in a pop-up window.
   
• Click here to list the file as a web page in a pop-up window.
   

There are some online resources as well:

• The I.G.I. at the Family History Library includes many marriages for 1837 - 1877 on film 0095044.
   

• 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.
   

The National Justice Museum is in High Pavement, Nottingham. The museum is open most weekdays at 9am.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Nottingham St Peter's to another place.

Nottingham changed rapidly in the 1820s with a flood of garment workers and frame-work knitters. The Narrow Marsh and the Broad Marsh (the latter in St Peter’s parish) became some of the worst slums in Europe, and suffered badly in the cholera epidemics of 1832 and later. A new burial ground opened in the Broad Marsh (the churchyard had been closed to new graves in 1856, and parts of it had been given up for road-widening), a church hall was built there and a variety of social clubs and other missionary activity was under way by 1900.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK573398 (Lat/Lon: 52.952527, -1.148582), Nottingham St Peter's which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

John SUTTON has a photograph of the Boer War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2018.

There is a War Memorial inside the National Justice Museum. Alas, Basher EYRE's photograph of the memorial doesn't illuminate the names well enough for us to read.

John SUTTON has a photograph of the Robin Hood Battalions' war memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2018.

The War Memorial that stands in St. Peter's Church. It was dedicated on 25 June 1922 by Lt.-Col. A. W. BREWILL DSO. It has a stone base and an alabaster tablet bearing the names of the fallen above which, in painted alabaster, is the figure of St George on foot and the dragon surmounted by a canopy of gilded oak. The inscription reads:

'In thanksgiving to God for deliverance and in memory of those of this parish and congregation who laid down their lives'.

Another War Memorial is the Dakeyne Street Lads' Club (2nd Nottingham Company Boys' Brigade) memorial. The Boys' Brigade was started as an Anglican 'army' of young orphans who needed structure and life-skills training. Oliver HIND was the founder and captain of 2nd Nottingham Company Boys' Brigade. The inscription read:

'For King and Country. August 1914-November 1918. Remember before God the gallant men who fell in the Great War for the freedom of the world. Their Name Liveth for Evermore. This memorial was erected by Oliver Hind, captain of the club, to the glorious and imperishable memory of the old boys who made the supreme sacrifice at the call of duty. Think upon them with reverence and forget not they died for their country and for you'.

Basher EYRE has a photograph of the memorial to 2nd Lt. Cecil Davey COOPER, A.C.A., who died in January 1918, on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2018.

These are the men listed on St. Peter's tablet:

1. Thomas Attenborough
2. Thomas Bray
3. Charles Brett
4. Albert Chapman
5. William Cockayne
6. Joseph Connelly
7. Herbert Victor Cooper
8. Thomas Henry Newton
9. Annie Freeman
10. Ernest Gay
11. John William Godrich
12. Reginald Horace Grundy
13. Arthur Percival Hatfield
14. Walter Hemsley
15. Arthur Holderness
16. John Hornibrook
17. Charles William Jenkins
18. George Henry Leeson
19. Alonzo Frederick Mantle
20. Edward Marriott
21. George William Marshall
22. William Murden
23. Ernest Pape
24. Herbert Parkes
25. Percy Parkes
26. Arthur Parkin
27. Stanley Richard Robinson
28. Albert Scothern
29. John Simmons
30. Edward Simpson
31. Percy Smith
32. Ernest Frederick Snow
33. John Edwin Snow
34. Joseph Taylor
35. Albert Edward Victor Tyers
36. Ernest Waldram
37. Roland Wallis
38. Thomas Bradley Widdowson
39. Frederick Alfred Wood
40. William Henry Wright

Thomas Henry NEWTON is listed on the Memorial as "TH NEWTON", but his birth name was DALLEY. Annie FREEMAN was killed in the Chilwell Shell Filling explosion in July 1918.

The names on the Boys' Brigade Memorial are:

1. Edward Anderson
2. Cornelius Baker
3. William Alfred Burton
4. Ernest Carter
5. Christopher Charles Christmas
6. Edgar Clark
7. Samuel Edward Clark
8. Richard Clarke
9. Charles Colgrave
10. George Cook
11. William George Cooke
12. Arthur Edward Cumberpatch
13. Frank Barratt Daniels
14. Alfred Goddard Elliott
15. George William Else
16. H. Frost
17. Alonzo Gent
18. James George
19. Edward Greenberry
20. Norman Glass Guy
21. Henry Maurice Hallam
22. William Hallam
23. Robert William Hamilton
24. Henry Chambers Hammond
25. Herbert Hampson
26. Robert William Hardy
27. Arthur Harrison
28. George Ernest Manlove Higgs
29. George Hill
30. Lawrence Arthur Hind
31. Jesse Francis Montague Hind
32. Oliver Ashover Hind
33. Harold Hodges
34. George Gordon Hodson
35. Frank William Hudson
36. Horace Hurt
37. Percival Hutchinson
38. Herbert Alfred Ickes
39. Albert Keward
40. Charles Ernest King
41. H. Lee
42. Alonzo Frederick Mantle
43. John William Marriott
44. Walter Marshall
45. Bernard McGreavy
46. James McGreavy
47. Arthur Mitchell
48. Herbert Murfet
49. William Murphy
50. Joseph Albert Musson
51. Charles William Newman
52. William John Parker
53. Herbert Parkes
54. Percy Parkes
55. George Prior
56. John William Roberts
57. Frederick Henry Robinson
58. Henry Russell
59. Horace Russell
60. John Harold Sanders
61. William Lawrence Savidge
62. George Sharpe
63. Alfred Shepherd
64. Ernest Owen Smith
65. Percy Smith
66. Albert Snowden
67. William Soles
68. G. Spencer
69. Jesse Watts Spinks
70. Thomas Stones
71. Arthur William Swain
72. Frank Tomlinson
73. W. Whitehead
74. George Williams
75. Albert Ernest Wilson

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county but did not became a modern Civil Parish until December, 1877.
   
• This parish was incorporated as part of Nottingham City in late 1897 when the town 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.
   

• St Peter's parish originally had a workhouse situated near St. Peter's church at the east end of Houndsgate. After this building was demolished, a new workhouse was built on the south side of Broad Marsh.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	2,732
1841	5,605
1871	4,906
1881	4,387
1891	3,362