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Internet resources and links

This is a select list of websites consulted by Manuscripts and Special Collections staff in the research for 'Archdeaconry Resources' in 2004-2005. The websites include resources relating to Nottinghamshire churches and parish histories, and resources relating to church court records and procedures in other parts of the country.

All links were checked in August 2009.

 

Detailed guides to other church court records

• Durham: a guide to the Durham Diocesan records
• York: guide to the records of the Archbishop of York and the various Peculiar jurisdictions in the Diocese of York, held at the Borthwick Institute for Archives in York.
• Canterbury and London: guide to visitation articles and returns

 

Articles relating to church records and research

• 'The Records of Earls Colne; Records of an English Village 1375-1854'.
  A project originally funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Research Centre of King's College, Cambridge, to try to reconstruct the history of a village and its inhabitants. Relevant documents, including entries from Archdeaconry court books, have been transcribed onto a database and indexed by personal name and date. The entire database has now been converted to Extensible Markup Language (XML) and is freely available on the internet. The site includes useful essays on church records (under the heading 'Reference').
• 'Archdeaconry records and the family historian' by Joan Dils in Berkshire Family Historian, December 2000.
• Articles by Alan Roberts concerning the history of Appleby Magna, Leicestershire. The series includes 'A 16th Century Scandal', 'Scandalous Wordes in an Appleby Alehouse', and 'An Appleby Penitent', each drawing on records from the Leicester Archdeaconry court.
• The Clergy of the Church of England Database. A collaborative project aiming to create a relational database documenting the careers of all Church of England clergymen between 1540 and 1835. The project is still on-going and does not yet include complete data for all dioceses. 

 

Nottinghamshire resources

• Website of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. The official website of the diocese now covering most of the ancient Archdeaconry of Nottingham [updated April 2022].
• Southwell and Nottingham DAC Church History project. Website containing information relating to the history and archaeology of churches and church sites within the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. 
• Nottinghamshire parish church database. List of Anglican parish churches in existence before 1912, with dedication, approximate date of construction, notes, and links to modern photographs on the related Nottinghamshire church photographs website.  
• The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. Historical and archaeological society, founded in 1897, which aims to promote and foster study of the history, archaeology and antiquities of Nottinghamshire for the public benefit. 
• Nottinghamshire History. Internet versions of out-of-copyright local history books and articles 
• Persons Presented as Popish Recusants in the Reigns of James I & Charles I.  Transcription, arranged by surname, of a list of Nottinghamshire recusants originally published in H. Hampton Copnall, Nottinghamshire county records : notes and extracts from the Nottinghamshire county records of the 17th century (Nottingham, 1915). The list tallies fairly closely with the people presented to the Nottinghamshire Archdeaconry court for recusancy.

 

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