Walesby Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Walesby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Other places in the parish include: Willoughby.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Edmund
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1580
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Walesby Parish Registers
The Register of Walesby in the County of Nottingham. Baptisms 1580 to 1792, Marriages 1594 to 1753, Burials 1585 to 1791. Transcribed and Edited by George W. Marshall, LL.D. Publisher: The Parish Register Society Date of publication: 1898 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WALESBY (St. Edmund), a parish, in the union of Southwell, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 3 miles (N. E.) from Ollerton; containing 416 inhabitants. It comprises 1429a. 1r. 29p. The soil is partly clay and bog, but chiefly a fertile sand; the surface is generally flat, and watered by a small brook. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 1. 3.; net income, £158; patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1821; the glebe comprises 152 acres. The church is in the Norman style, with a low tower surmounted by a pyramidical roof.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Southwell
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Retford
- Poor Law Union: Southwell
- Hundred: Bassetlaw
- Province: York