Annesley, Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Annesley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Woodhouse, Wansley, Wandesley, and Annesley Woodhouse.

Alternative names:

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1599
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Annesley, a village and a parish in Notts, on the border of Sherwood Forest, with a station on the M.R., 6 miles SSW of Mansfield. The parish contains a portion of Annesley Woodhouse, and has a post and money order office under Nottingham. Acreage, 3125; population, 1374. Annesley Park was the birthplace of Mary Chaworth, the object of the early attachment of Lord Byron, celebrated in the poem of “The Dream.” The manor belonged, for some time after the Conquest, to the Annesleys, now of Bletchingdon, who built a castle in the park, and a priory in Felley.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; value, £36. There are two churches in the parish, an old one still in use, and of considerable interest, which adjoins the Hall, and a new one, built in 1874, to seat about 350, which stands well on a hill overlooking the colliery. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Methodists (Free Church), at Annesley Woodhouse. There is a colliery which affords employment to about 1000 hands.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ANNESLEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Basford, N. division of the wapentake of Broxtow and of the county of Nottingham, 10 miles (N. N. W.) from Nottingham; containing, with the hamlets of Annesley-Woodhouse and Wandesley, and the extraparochial district of Felly, 315 inhabitants.

This parish comprises 3030 acres by measurement; it is intersected by the road from Nottingham to Kirkby-Sutton, and is irregular in its surface, which in many parts rises into mountainous ridges. The soil rests on red sandstone, of which there are some quarries supplying an inferior material used chiefly for walls and small houses. The village is picturesquely situated; several of its inhabitants are engaged in the manufacture of stockings. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £52; patron and impropriator, J. Musters, Esq. The church is ancient, and has a tower with two bells.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Cemeteries

Monumental inscriptions in the parish churchyard of Annesley, Nottinghamshire, England

Census

Census returns for Annesley, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Annesley, 1605-1867 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Annesley (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Annesley, parish records, 1599-1915 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Annesley (Nottinghamshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Marriages at Annesley, 1599-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Annesley (Nottinghamshire)

Computer printout of Annesley, Notts., Eng.

Poorhouses & Poor Law

Parish chest material, Annesley, 1739, 1837 Author: Annesley (Nottinghamshire)

Taxation

Parish chest material, Annesley, 1739, 1837 Author: Annesley (Nottinghamshire)

Administration

  • County: Nottinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Basford
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Nottingham
  • Poor Law Union: Basford
  • Hundred: Broxtowe
  • Province: York