Gonalston

The Library at Southwell will prove useful in your research.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Laurence.
   
• There is evidence of a church here as early as 1269.
   
• The present church was built in 1852-53 on the site of the former one.
   
• The church and tower were rebuilt in 1859.
   
• The church seats only 86.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure with English Heritage.
   
• "John from Notts" has a photograph of St. Laurence Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2009.
   
• Matt FASCIONE also has a photograph of St. Laurence Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016. The church is wrapped for repairs to the roof.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1637.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell (currently the Gedling deanery).
   

• The parish was in the Southwell sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This village and parish lie about 1.5 miles west of the River Trent, 138 miles north of London, about 9 miles north-east of Nottingham and about 5 miles south-west by west of Southwell. The parish covers 1,329 acres and sits on the Dover Beck, a feeder to the River Trent.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The village is on the A612 south out of Southwell, just before you get to Loudham.
   
• The nearest rail service is at Loudham.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

On 17 Jul 1735, Rebecca PARSONS otp married William REASON widower. William REASON was previously married to Elizabeth GIRTON who was buried 4 Apr 1730 in nearby Lowdham. Rebecca REASON was buried on 18 Dec 1784 in Lowdham.

• Gonalston Hall is a fairly modern building on an elevated site near the road.
   
• The Hall was the residence of Liell FRANCKLIN Jr. in 1881.
   
• The Hall was unoccupied in 1912.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Manor Farmhouse on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2009.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK679474 (Lat/Lon: 53.0196, -0.989241), Gonalston 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.

There is a World War One War Memorial plaque on the wall of St. Laurence Church to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War.

These five names are listed on the War Memorial plaque:

1. Philip FRANCKLIN, Captain of HMS Good Hope, lost at Coronel with all hands.
2. Horace LINDSEY, private in the Army Service Corps.
3. Oliver Charles PEARSON, Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps.
4. Wilfred SHEPPARD, private in the 1/7th Btln. Sherwood Foresters.
5. Arthur VANN, private in the 6th Btln. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

There is no memorial relating to the Second World War, but in September 2008 the name of a former resident of Gonalston was added to the Lowdham Village War Memorial. 2nd. Lt. John WRIGHT was killed in Norway and is buried in the Military Cemetery at Lillehammer in Norway.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Thurgarton Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have opted to have periodic Parish Meetings of all the residents rather than have a formal Parish Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Southwell petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1768.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	146
1841	113
1851	100
1861	107
1881	119
1901	128