Newark on Trent

Sir William GILSTRAP, a local Maltster and Philanthropist, endowed the Free Library at Newark in 1833. It lasted until 1988 when the Library needed a new home. The old building is now the Newark Registration Office.

The Nottingham County Council operates the:

Newark Library
Beaumond Gardens
Baldertongate
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG24 1UW

The Library is normally open six days per week. The closest car park to Newark Library is London Road/Baldertongate Car Park. The Library is wheelchair-friendly, has free Wi-Fi, a local history selection and a newspaper archive.

• The Newark Cemetery was formed in 1856 on the London Road. It was enlarged in 1878 and again in 1901. It had two mortuary chapels and covered about 17 acres by 1912.
   
• The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 23rd, 1914 tells us that the half-dead, decayed and cracked trees by the cemetery entrance were to be removed.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of one of the Newark Cemetery lanes on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of a Cemetery chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012. The chapels are no longer used for mortuary services.
   
• The Cemetery is managed by a burial board of the Newark Corporation.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene.
   
• The church was built in the 15th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1855.
   
• The church seats 1,700.
   
• The parish was also served by the Anglican church of Christ Church in Lombard Street, which opened in 1846 and its ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1847.
   
• Saint Leonard's at North Gate ecclesiastical parish was formed from St. Mary Magdalene in March 1873. St. Leonard's Church, Lincoln Road, Newark. The new church, dedicated on 5 November 1978, replaced the former church of St Leonard's on Northgate, Newark (demolished October 1977).
   
• Saint Leonard's seats 600.
   
• Saint Augustine's is a Mission Room of St. Mary Magdalene, erected in 1886.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1600.
   
• The Anglican church register for St. Leanard's dates from 1873.
   
• The Anglican church was in the rural deanery of Newark.
   
• The Catholic Church was on Parliament Street and dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
   
• The Baptist Chapel was on Albert Street and the original 1737 chapel was rebuilt in 1875.
   
• The Particular Baptist Chapel was on Victoria Street.
   
• The Congregational Chapel was on Lombard Street, erected in 1826.
   
• The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for October 18th, 1915 tells us that the Congregationalist Church on Lombard Street held an annual three-day bazaar and raised £113 14s and 8d to keep church finances in good condition.
   
• The Methodist New Connexion Meeting Hall was at Barnby Gate.
   
• The Primitive Methodist chapel was on Parliament Street and was rebuilt in 1878.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapels were at Barnby Gate and North Gate.
   
• John LUCAS has a photograph of the North-west Wesleyan Chapel [former] on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2020.
   
• The Unitarian chapel was on King's Road and was rebuilt in 1884.
   
• For those interested in more detail on various places of worship, check out Jim Fisher's website.
   

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

Newark is a municipality, a township, a market town and a parish. It sits on the Trent River, 15 miles south-west of the city of Lincoln in neighboring Lincolnshire, 17 miles north-east of Nottingham and 124 miles north of London by road. The parish covers 1,889 acres, but the Municipality is much larger than that.

If you are planning a visit:

• Check out the town at Jimella's site.
   
• Newark was once a rail hub for passenger service, but the number of trains and railroads has diminished in the last 70 years.
   
• By automobile, take the A46 trunk road southwest out of Lincoln or take the A1 northwest out of Grantham.
   
• Bob DANYLEC has a photograph of the Newark Arcade on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006. Obviously he'd like to see more tourists there.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Newark on Trent to another place.

• The British tribe that lived here was the Corelitauvi (formerly called the Coritani). They occupied the area of the East Midlands in a loose federation. The Iceni tribe was to the south-west. "Boudica" was Queen of the Iceni in AD 60-62.
   
• The Romans maintained a station here for some centuries. They called it "Sidnacester".
   
• When the Viking destroyed the old town, the name of "New Work" was given to the place erected on its site.
   
• It is thought that Egbert, King of the West Saxons, built the castle here and called this place the "Key of the North."
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Newark Castle on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2013.
   
• King John died (likely of Dysentery) in Newark Castle on 19 October 1216. His body was escorted south by a company of mercenaries and he was buried in Worcester Cathedral.
   
• The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for August 17, 1914 tells us that young Henry GAINSLEY, age 6, drowned in the Trent while playing Hide and seek with his brother. He was the son of Benjamin J. S. GAINSLEY and his wife Lucy.
   
• The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for June 14th, 1915 tells us that the St. Barnabas Girls' Home in Newark was celebrating its 21st year of operation. The Girls' Home operated from 1894 through 1921.
   
• The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for August 9th, 1915 tells us that Ellen Martha HENSE was sentenced to hard labour for 6 months as an "alien enemy." It seems that Ellen had been following the military camps without a proper travel permit. There is a death record for Ellen M. HENSE, age 56, in Nottingham in 1922.
   
• The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for October 11th, 1915 tells us that Monsieur and Madame Martin Francis TOTE, Belgian refugees living in the Middlegate area of Newark, had a son named Adrian Albert Martin TOTE, born on the 9th of October.
   
• The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 29th, 1915 tells us that Newark's Town Hall caught fire the week before and that quick action by the care-taker, Dennis Gabbitas PEET, kept the fire under control until the Fire Brigade could put out the flames.
   
• The Ram Hotel on the Great North Road was a popular spot for travelers passing through Newark.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 29h, 1915 tells us that Louise SHAW, a soldier's widow of 22 Lindum Street, Newark, was sent to prison for two months, with hard labour, by the Borough Magistrates for neglecting her four children.

Just north-east of town is the Beacon Hill Conservation Park, here photographed by Jonathan THACKER in September, 2019. Beacon Hill is a nature reserve managed by the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of Newark Castle on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2021. There is more information in the photo captions.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK806545 (Lat/Lon: 53.08186, -0.797875), Newark on Trent 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 Town and District Hospital, established in 1813 and rebuilt in 1881 on the London Road, had 33 beds.
   
• In 1891, Miss Maud CALVERT was the matron here.
   
• In 1912 a children's ward was added with 8 beds.
   
• It is unknown what patient records may exist in the Archives office. Hospitals were not required to archive patient records. Administrative and Financial records are archived, as are some photographs.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of the present Newark Hospital on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.
   
• The Barnby Road TB (Isolation) Hospital was built in the 1906 (technically in Balderton). The property was sold in 1953.
   

St Mary Magdalene, Market Place, Newark, Private memorial to Frederick Dixon:

"In glorious memory of Frederick Arthur DIXON a chorister of this church and Private 9th Battn. King's Own Lancaster Regt. who died on active service in hospital at Salonika January 3rd 1919. Numbered with Thy saints'"

In 1891, Newark-on-Trent was the headquarters of the "Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia" on Albert Street. Colonel E. R. S. RICHARDSON commanding; Lieutenant M. FRANKLIN, instructor of musketry; Captain A. A. ETHERIDGE, adjutant; Lieut. A. E. RIDDELL, quarter master; Surgeon-Major Thomas F. GREENWOOD, medical officer.

Newark has a Memorial for the Boer War volunteers (1899 - 1902). It was unveiled in late May, 1915 and in the loggia of the Town Hall.

In 1904, the 4th Battalion of the Royal Sherwood Foresters was headquartered here on Hawton Street. Lt.-Col. G. A. E. WILKINSON, DSO, Commanding; R. BRITTAN, DSO, and C. DIDHAM, majors.

In 1912, Newark was the head quarters of the 4th Battalion (Reserve) of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts Militia). The Territorial Force stationed in the town was A Squadron of the Nottingham Yeomanry and the B Company of the 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.

In 1913, the Nottingham Hussars were headquartered on Derby Road, commanded by Lt.-Col. F. E. SEELY. The second-in-command was Major P. R. BRUCE.

In 1913, a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery was also head-quartered on Derby Road. Lt.-Col. Joseph Frederick LAYCOCK, DSO, commanding. He became High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1906 and competed in the 1908 Olympics at Water Motorsport. He got his DSO for service in the Second Boer War. During the Second World War, LAYCOCK commanded the Nottinghamshire Home Guard.

Local volunteers were lucky enough prior to World War One to drill with real, functional weapons. Most other volunteer units often had to use wooden rifles for drill and practice, but the Sherwood Foresters had rifles, shotguns and carbines donated by local farmers and gentry. The use of real weapons made them more effective when they went into battle.

The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for August 10, 1914 tells us that the young men were lining up to face the enemies, and that local men had "captured" 30 German miners at Harworth.

At the start of WWI, some people were interned if they were in the wrong country at the wrong time. Walter STANGER was a 43-year-old ship's stoker in the Royal Navy, left behind in the failed attempt to block German intrusion into Antwerp. He was interned in the great internment camp at Kroningen in Holland.

The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 7, 1914 tells us that:

"MISS STELLA FREEMAN reluctantly returned home on Saturday to her parents at The Chilterns, The Park, Newark, after working for two years in the American Embassy in Hamburg. The 26-year-old said that she left only because the German Government insisted on the removal of all allies who had not been interned; and she wished she had had a more adventurous journey home! Her father, James Rogers Freeman, aged 58, is also a Civil Servant: he is a Customs and Excise supervisor."

Newark contributed to the Great War effort in a number of ways. A local company, Ransome’s Stanley Works, began making ball bearings for airplane engines and other military equipment and were recognized for the fine quality of the bearings they produced. The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for May 10th, 1915 includes a photograph of the bearing shop.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the NSK bearings factory (Ransome's successor) on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.

Newark was also one of the Depot cities and training centers for the Royal Engineers. Alas, the enlisted men had to camp in tents on the Sconce Hills (on the western edge of Newark) and were often cold and damp. Newark officials negotiated a contract with the War Department to be paid for the temporary use of the area. The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for May 24th, 1915 has a £2. per week quoted in the headline, but the article tells us it was £2 1s and 8p per month.

• The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 7, 1914 tells us that two men of West Newark, W. W. STEVENS and H. H. BUTT, had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion.
   
• In June, 1915, the town council forbade married men from enlisting. They insisted that single men should be the first to enlist, regardless of occupation.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the Polish servicemen cemetery portion of Newark Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2012.
   
• In December, 1915, the town council funded six baths with hot and cold running water to be used by Royal Engineers who were training in building bridges and digging networks of trenches. The town council owned the building in Queen's Road and planned to use the structure and baths for the working poor after the war.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the 1944 Warsaw Air Bridge Memorial at Newark Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2013.
   
• David DIXON also has a photograph of the Polish War Memorial in Newark Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2013.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the World War I Memorial in Newark Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2013. This is also called the Cross of Sacrifice.
   
• The Newark War memorial in the grounds of St. Mary's parish church off Appletongate, was unveiled by the Duke of Portland on Sunday 24th April 1921. 

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for September 28, 1914 tells us that:

"Drummer Rowland James BAKER, aged 22, from Albert Street died in hospital in Luton of blood poisoning. He was determined to avoid being sent back home for a blister from marching, so he did not report for medical attention until his pain became unbearable."

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for October 12, 1914 tells us that:

Trooper William McLEOD, aged 22, of the 14th Hussars had died of wounds received in the Battle of the Aisne. He was the youngest son of the widow Sarah Ann McLEOD. Also, Thomas BOWERS of Eldon Place had died while guarding the tubular bridge over the Trent River. He had been hit by an express train. Thomas was 43 years old.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 28, 1914 tells us that:

"THERE was only Christmas anguish for Henry and wife Mary Ann TACEY of 102 Northgate, Newark, who have five sons fighting in the British forces around the world. They received a letter from one of them, Fred, on the morning of Christmas Eve to say he was wounded and a prisoner in Germany. They already knew he had been shot through both thighs during the Battle for Mons at the outset of this conflict."

Henry TACEY, above, was born in Saxilby, LIN, in 1849. Fred was born in Newark, and his mother was born in Dunston, LIN.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for January 4th, 1915 tells us that:

"Mrs. Annie KIRK of 167 Barnbygate received a letter over Christmas from her 21-year-old son Arthur, an Ordinary Seaman on HMS Glasgow, It was dated 8 November and addressed to both Annie and her husband Herbert Joseph, a boiler man in a maltster’s brewhouse.

“I am still alive and quite all right in every way.“

"No doubt before you receive this letter you will have read about the engagement we had in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chili (Chile) and have been a bit anxious to hear whether I was all right or not.“

"I am very sorry to say that we lost the fight but we were not disgraced, thank God as we fought superior ships and were out-numbered by five to three – the Good Hope, Monmouth and Glasgow – and we are the only one left to tell the tale. When we look back on it, it seems a miracle that we were not blown to smithereens as when the other two ships went down, all the five German boats concentrated their fire on the good old Glasgow, and we owe our salvation to our speed, which enabled us to leave the enemy ships behind when they chased us.“

"All aboard our ship wept like children, and the Captain also, when we fell-in next morning to read prayers."

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for January 18, 1915 tells us that William Sergeant GOY ("Sergeant" is his middle name), aged 22, of the Royal Flying Corps was promoted to First-Class Airman Mechanic only two months after joining the Corps.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for June 7th, 1915 tells us that private John William SHAW of the 5th Btln. Lincolnshire Regt. was granted compassionate leave from the front lines to come home to Newark and to tend to his sick wife and their five children. However, once here he caught double pneumonia and died. His wife Louise was well enough to lead the mourners at his funeral.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for June 14th, 1915 reveals that another Royal Engineer trainee, driver Joseph Henry NEVINS, drowned in the River Trent. Also reported was the death of stoker first-class Samuel ASMAN, age 28. He was the son of Richard (deceased) and Mary ASHMAN. The death of private Alfred JOYNES who died at Gallipoli while serving in the Royal Marine Light Infantry was also reported.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for June 28th, 1915 tells us that Mr. and Mrs. Harry REVELL lost their son Robert, age 28, of the 1st Btln. Border Regt. while fighting in Turkey. They will lose another son, Harold, in 1917.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for August 2nd, 1915 reveals that another Royal Engineer sapper's body, Dennis MURPHY, age 36, was recovered from the River Trent.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for August 16th, 1915 reveals that these men from Newark were being held in Germany's Doeberitz POW Camp:

1. pte. E. BULLARD
2. pte. A. STEVENSON
3. pte. George E. WHITE
    

The August 16th Bulletin also tells that the following men of Newark were recent casualties:

1. Lieut. Hector Wilson RIDLEY, age 23, 2nd Sherwood Foresters (his name is also given as William Hector Mather RIDLEY)
2. Private Frank WALSTER, age 23, 8th Sherwood Foresters.
3. Private Herbert MOORE, age 22.
4. Private Robert HUCKERBY, age 19, 8th Sherwood Foresters.
5. Private Thomas Frederick GUMSLEY, age 19, 8th Sherwood Foresters.
    

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for September 6th, 1915 tells us that Flight Sergeant Edwin Cecil RUMFORD of Southwell, serving in the Royal Flying Corps was recognized for his bravery and awarded the St. George Medal, 2nd class, by the Tsar of Russia.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for September 13th, 1915 tells us that Royal Engineer corporal Alexander SMITH had committed suicide the week before. He had been rejected as "unfit" for front-line service. Another sapper, William COMYN, age 45, had also died from double pneumonia.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for September 27th, 1915 tells us that private William Thomas MARSHALL, a father of 7, had died of shrapnel wounds to his head and neck after a fortnight in an Australian Hospital at Wimereux, France.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for October 11th, 1915 tells us that Lance Corporal Charles Edgar HARRISON had died in battle on October 5th. He was the husband of Eleanor A. HARRISON and had been serving with the 1/8th Btln. of the Sherwood Foresters.

The edition above also advises that private Harry KILLINGLEY of the 9th Btln. Sherwood Foresters was alive and well in spite of earlier reports that he had died in action. His mother rushed to tell Harry;s brother and sister and his workmates that he was alive and well. However, that Bulletin also told of two local men who had died: Alfred Charles DENCH of Newark and Arthur STARR of North Collingham.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for October 18th, 1915 tells us that 17-year-old Private William COBB of 14 Victoria Gardens, Newark, was in Wharncliffe Hospital, Sheffield, with a gunshot wound in the leg. There is no indication of how he persuaded the authorities he was old enough for combat.

That same edition tells us that Joseph WARRINER was at his home in 3 Norfolk Buildings, Parker Street, Newark, pondering which of his two sons was better off. William WARRINER, a 38-year-old father of four, was a Prisoner of War in a German camp, and his son Samuel WARRINER, a Lance Corporal in the Somerset Light Infantry, was wounded first at La Bassee and later at Ypres – and has returned to action hoping for a real case of ‘third time lucky’. Both sons would survive the war.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 1st, 1915 tells us that 19-year-old Charles Sydney LAWRENCE was recovering at the 6th Base Hospital in Rouen and that he expected to be discharged soon.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 8th, 1915 tells us that 29-year-old Lance Corporal Frederick James LOWE had died from wounds. Both he and his wife Charlotte had been born in Newark, with two children born in Lincoln city and Charlotte will have a third child in Newark in April, 1916.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 15th, 1915 tells us that 23-year-old Archie ROBB had died from dysentery contracted in Gallipoli.

That same edition tells us that Boer-War veteran Albert SQUIRES plead guilty to desertion charges in Newark, for not returning to his unit, the 1st Btln., Scottish Rifles.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 29th, 1915 tells us that Second Lieutenant Sydney CARLIN had the Distinguished Conduct Medal pinned to his breast by Colonel ROTHERHAM RE. The award was for "conspicuous gallantry" at the 18 May 1915 Battle of Ypres.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 6th, 1915 tells us that:

1. Private Cyril Sydney HARRISON, 19, was killed during the Battle of Loos in September.
2. Private Horace Steemson WILKINSON, 21, who was an active member of the Church Lads’ Brigade, was also killed during the Battle of Loos.
3. The Castle Rovers football team’s goalkeeper, Harold TAYLOR, 22, was in hospital in France with “a rather bad wound” in his side. He would survive his wounds and appear in the 1918 list of absent voters. He was born in 1893 in Nottingham. He can be found in the 1901 census on Great Alfred Street North as Harold Arthur TAYLOR, age 8, son of Jane Ann TAYLOR.

The Barnby Gate Methodist Church lists these names of the fallen on its War Memorial:

1. William Allured Davison
2. James Walter Hammond
3. Walter Hanson
4. John George Haywood
5. Charles Kirk
6. Herbert Kirk
7. Edward Alexander Knight
8. Harry Newman McKears
9. Isaac Overton
10. Samuel Boyd Quibell
11. Vincent Oswald R Taylor
12. Cecil Windey

Nottinghamshire Archives has two copies of a printed roll of honour from the Charles Street Methodist Church (ref. MR. 5/100/1 and MR. 5/100/2). The War Memorial in this church contains these names:

1. Harold Walter ADDY
2. Frank COOK
3. Charles CRAMPTON
4. Maurice Henry DARE
5. Harold Harold FOX
6. Robert HUCKERBY
7. Edward MARKWELL
8. Frederick PARKER
9. Samuel Boyd QUIBELL
10. Charles Ernest REDMILE
11. John Robert ROE
12. Harry TRICKETT
13. Reggie John WRIGHT

In St. Mary's Church there is a brass wall plaque to the men who worked at the Post Office and fell in battle:

1. Albert ANDREW
2. Percy GRAVES
3. William GUMSLEY
4. Clement Holmes Kingston HOGG
5. Thomas EustaceE PRESTON
6. Robert SCRATON
7. Charles William STATHAM
8. William Henry THEAKER
9. William WILKINSON

The Newark Rowing Club on Farndon Road has a cast metal plaque with plain border and inscription in raised upright capital lettering. The following men from that club fell during WWI:

1. Domenico D'ascanio
2. William Derr
3. Frederic Arthur Dixon
4. Herbert Leslie Durham
5. James Ernest Ford
6. Charles Lionel Richard Haines
7. Robert Muir Hindley
8. Harry Lawford Hunt
9. Archibald Langrish Knight
10. Edward Alexander Knight
11. Edward John Rodwell Rich
12. Cecil Sefton
13. Charles Chester Sefton
14. Percy Sefton
15. Roland Hadfield Smith
16. Thomas Rowland Smith
17. William Swann

In St. Mary Magdalene Church is this list of Royal Engineers who perished in WW1:

1. Charles William Arnold
2. Edward Hosmer Asling
3. Arthur Atkinson
4. Rowland James Baker
5. Thomas Ball
6. Richard Alfred Beardmore
7. John Cecil Belton
8. George Archibald Bingley
9. Ernest Birkett
10. Sidney Blagg
11. Louis Branch
12. Charles Matthew Britten
13. Thomas Brown
14. Ernest Bryan
15. Fred Bryan
16. Horace Frank Buckler
17. Henry Percy Carr
18. Frank James Carter
19. Thomas Catley
20. Horace Chesham
21. George Henry Clayton
22. Alfred Cobb
23. Michael Herbert Edmonds Colton
24. Stanley Edmonds Colton
25. Roland Combes
26. James Cope
27. William Richard Copley
28. H Cottam
29. George Edmund Harold Coulsey
30. John Thomas Cragg
31. Ernest Cross
32. Frederic Arthur Dixon
33. George Sanders Edlin
34. Arthur Harold Ellis
35. George Esam
36. Fred Footitt
37. Harry Footitt
38. Alfred Francis Ford
39. H E Ford
40. Walter Foster
41. James Harold Fox
42. Harry Gardner
43. Christopher Chowler Gilbert
44. William Godfrey
45. Evelyn Edgar Golland
46. Alma Adolphus Grant
47. Albert Edward John Graveney
48. Thomas Hall
49. Thomas Hardy
50. Charles Edgar Harrison
51. Cyril Sidney Harrison
52. Joseph Henry Harrison
53. Sidney Harston
54. George Hayes
55. John George Haywood
56. John Henton
57. Ernest Alfred Hill
58. George William Hill
59. James Holwell
60. Robert Huckerby
61. Harry Lawford Hunt
62. Ralph Joseph Inwards
63. Harold Jarman
64. Fredrick Harry Jepson
65. Mountna Johnson
66. John Thomas Judson
67. William Henry Kay
68. Ernest H Kelham
69. Charles Kirk
70. Herbert Kirk
71. Reginald Knee
72. Edward Alexander Knight
73. Archibald Langrish Knight
74. George William Lacey
75. George Lambert
76. Frederick James Lowe
77. Ernest Markwell
78. Thomas Massey
79. Arthur Robert Matthews
80. Charles Eustace Morley
81. Alexander John Mort
82. Ernest Mountney
83. William Maule Norcott
84. Isaac Overton
85. Albert Victor Page
86. Fred Parker
87. Alfred Parr
88. John Turner Pond
89. Frederick David Porter
90. Harry Poynton
91. Alfred Priestley
92. Alfred Edward Pulford
93. John Francis Rawding
94. H L Raynor
95. Charles Ernest Redmile
96. Edward John Rodwell Rich
97. William Richardson
98. William Hector Mather Ridley
99. Hassell Ernest Robinson
100. Harry L Rouston
101. Elijah Salmon
102. Ernest Stanley Sanderson
103. Harry Sanderson
104. Edwin Herbert Scales
105. Edward Lionel Scales
106. James Scoley
107. George Seagrave
108. Frank Joseph Selby
109. John Sentance
110. Aaron Sharp
111. Jesse Tatem Shelbourn
112. Albert George Sherry
113. Leonard Short
114. Leonard George Simpson
115. Alfred Smith
116. Frank Handley Smith
117. Joseph H Smith
118. Roland Hadfield Smith
119. Thomas Rowland Smith
120. Walter Smith
121. William Smith
122. Harry Squires
123. George Footit Stanley
124. Charles William Statham
125. Albert Stevenson
126. William Swann
127. John James Tailby
128. Christopher William Taylor
129. Herbert Taylor
130. John Thomas Thorpe
131. I Thorpe
132. Herbert Frederick Jenkins Tinsley
133. Charles Frederick Titchener
134. George William Turner
135. Frank Tye
136. Harold Tye
137. Arthur Tyers
138. Frederick Tyers
139. Leslie Tyers
140. Robert Vacey
141. Leonard Thomas Wakefield
142. George Henry Walker
143. John Edward Walker
144. Frank Walster
145. William Henry Weightman
146. Herbert Wiggins
147. Horace Wilkinson
148. Somerville Reade Willingham
149. George Thomas Percival Wilmore
150. Cecil Windey
151. Philip Woolfitt

In St Mary Magdalene Church in the church's Chapel of St George which is a memorial to those who died in the Great War, is this list from the Magnus School (now Academy):

1. Sidney Blagg
2. Geoffrey Brocklebank
3. George Brockton
4. John Garrett Bussell
5. Hubert Everard Clifton
6. George William Collett
7. Michael Herbert Edmonds Colton
8. Stanley Edmonds Colton
9. William Derry
10. Arthur Harold Ellis
11. Alfred Francis Ford
12. James Ernest Ford
13. John Stuart Frost
14. Grosvenor Garnet
15. John Auchenlosh Gibson
16. James Walter Hammond
17. Thomas Walter Harrison
18. Sidney Harston
19. Robert Muir Hindley
20. Archibald Langrish Knight
21. Edward Alexander Knight
22. Reginald John Cary Leader
23. Wilfrid May
24. Wilfrid Ernest Parker
25. H. W. G. Payne
26. Frederick David Porter
27. Samuel Boyd Quibell
28. Hassell Ernest Robinson
29. Herbert Noel Rogerson
30. Edwin Herbert Scales
31. Edward Lionel Scales
32. Cecil Sefton
33. Percy Sefton
34. Joseph H Smith
35. Thomas Rowland Smith
36. Leonard George Steel
37. William Barron Taylor
38. Frank Thompson
39. Richard Lacey Thornton
40. Herbert Frederick Jenkins Tinsley
41. Walter Kemeys Francis Goodall Warneford
42. Oscar Potter Willis
43. Philip Woolfitt

In St. Leonard's Church the war memorial was originally in the vestry but was relocated to the entrance porch of the church in 2007. The names listed are:

1. Albert Andrew
2. John Richard Arnold
3. John Henry Ayto
4. George Henry Baines
5. George Alfred Banton
6. Thomas Beeston
7. Ralph James Boness
8. Robert William Bradley
9. Edward Broughton
10. Sydney Broughton
11. Andrew Brown
12. William Brown
13. Arthur Edward Cox
14. George Crowder
15. Percy William Drabble
16. Arthur James Duke
17. Alfred Francis Ford
18. Walter Foster
19. Ernest William Frisby
20. Lorraine Gabbitas
21. Richard Gill
22. Evelyn Edgar Golland
23. Arthur Harrison Grocock
24. Alfred Grosse
25. Joseph Grosse
26. William Henry Manchester Guy
27. Adolphus Hardy
28. Joseph Edward Hardy
29. James Henry Harper
30. Ernest Edward Harrop
31. John Joseph Hawarden
32. Clement Holmes Kingston Hogg
33. Henry Hurst
34. William Hurst
35. Arthur Hutchinson
36. Ernest William Jarman
37. Bertie Jenkinson
38. George Henry Johnson
39. Mountna Johnson
40. John Charles Judson
41. George Keetley
42. Henry Keetley
43. John Knowles
44. John Nigel Macrae
45. George Martin
46. Joseph Maull
47. William Henry Jackson Measham
48. Hezekiah Mendham
49. John Lewis Morgan
50. George Morley
51. H Neal
52. John Thomas Newbold
53. Walter Newbound
54. Joseph Henry Nicholson
55. Frederick Norton
56. Albert Victor Page
57. George Herbert Page
58. Joseph Pamment
59. Alfred Parr
60. Herbert Peet
61. George Henry Poole
62. F J Powell
63. Ernest Priestley
64. Harry Charles Lawton Randall
65. Alfred Algarnon Horace Ransley
66. Robert Robinson
67. Alfred Savage
68. William Sharpe
69. Herbert Sketchley
70. Florence Smith
71. George William Smith
72. Harry Edward Smith
73. Alfred Ernest Southerington
74. George Brown Southerington
75. Herbert Spicer
76. Charles Frederick Titchener
77. Robert Vacey
78. Walter Vacey
79. Fred Warner
80. Thomas White
81. Albert Henry Wilson

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 13 October, 1803, MARRIED:
"On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Paul JACKSON, of Newark, to Miss Sarah CRESWICK, daughter of Mr. James CRESWICK, paper manufacturer, of Sheffield."

The Newark Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in town since 1854. They now have an online presence. Be sure to check the Announcement tab to look at obituaries and anniversary notices.

The Newark Herald was a weekly newspaper printed on Saturdays by Jesse STENNETT of Church Street in the Market Place. It is in the British Newspaper Archives from 1873 to 1949.

Former Mayor of Newark, Dr. Harry STALLARD, served as a surgeon in World War One in a Field Hospital near the front lines in 1914 and 1915. He was in the Army Medical Corps, but was attached to the 8th Btln, Sherwood Foresters during his tour of duty.

Dr. STALLARD was born in Havant, Hampshire around 1867. He married Maud SAWYER from Birmingham, WAR. Dr. STALLARD was promoted to Major ten years after being commissioned as Surgeon-Captain of the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Newark Town Council regarding civic and political matters, but they are NOT funded to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings held twice each week at the Town Hall.
   
• The Bede Houses were founded in 1556 and contained 9 aged men and 11 women in 1912.
   
• St. Leonard's Hospital is actually six almshouses erected in 1890 in Northgate.
   
• The Warwick and Richardsons brewery built almshouses for retired employees on Northgate Road. Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Derelict Almshouses on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2019.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became the centre of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	6,730
1811	7,236
1821	8,084
1841	10,220
1851	11,330
1871	12,187
1881	14,083
1891	14,571
1901	14,992

• The Grammar School at Appleton Gate was founded in the 13th century and endowed in 1529 by Thomas MAGNUS who was a chaplain to King Henry VIII. It became a Secondary School under the Board of Education. In 2014 this would become the Magnus Church of England Academy.
   
• Christ Church School for Boys on Albert Street was built in 1843.
   
• Christ Church School for Girls (and infants) was on Portland Street.
   
• The Newark Borough School of Art and Science was in the London Road. It was a red brick structure with a stone portico. In 1912, it had about 200 students.
   
• In 1838, the Mount School (mixed & infants) opened. It was reconstructed in 1911. Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Mount School buildings on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• In 1854, the Portland School for girls & infants opened.
   
• In 1896, the Victoria Street Infants School (for 180 infants) was opened.
   
• In 1899, the Lovers' Lane School (mixed & infants) was opened.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Play area, Lovers Lane Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2019.
   
• In 1910, the High School for Girls and Pupil Teachers was erected on the London Road.
   
• There was a Wesleyan School for 390 boys and girls and 350 infants here by 1911, but the date of construction is unkown.
   
• Holy Trinity Catholic School was on Parliament Street.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for November 1st, 1915 advises parents and students that the Newark Education Committee had put the Barnby Road School on a half-time schedule as well as the Lovers' Lane School due to the Royal Engineers taking over the two schools for their military use.