Stokeham

The Library at East Retford will prove useful in your research.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Peter's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2006.

B. HILTON also has a photograph of St. Peter's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.

• The parish was in the Tuxford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• By the mid-19th century the church was dilapidated.
   
• The church was restored in 1862 and again in 1881.
   
• The church was fully restored in 1928.
   
• At last report, the church is seldom used for weekly services.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church interior on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1650 and is in good condition, although imperfectly kept.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford (or No. 2 deanery of Retford).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1869, although that chapel is now derelict.
   

• The parish was in the Tuxford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

This village, township and parish are about 5 miles north-east of Tuxford and 6 miles south-east of Retford. The parish covers only 564 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A57 trunk road, heading east off of the A1 trunk road and turn north at Darlton. Continue north thru East Drayton to get to Stokeham.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stokeham to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK783769 (Lat/Lon: 53.2833, -0.827035), Stokeham 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.

The War Memorial is a three-light, stained glass window in St. Peter's Church. The window was restored in 1930.

These are the three names listed on the War MemoriaI inscription under the window in the church:

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Nottingham county. It apparently became a modern Civil Parish in 1834, but that date is uncertain.
   
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT funded to help you with family history searches. At last check, their website was under revision.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	42
1821	45
1841	49
1861	43
1871	53
1881	43
1891	35

The children of this parish attended the school in Drayton parish.