Rolleston

The Library at Newark will prove useful in your research.

The Library at Southwell would be my second choice for libraries.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church Tower and graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.

• 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 the Holy Trinity.
   
• One Directory tells the website author that the church is dedicated to Saint Wilfrid, but that information appears to be incorrect.
   
• The date of construction is unreported, but is believed to be 12th century.
   
• There was a Christian church here at the time of The Domesday Survey, in 1086.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of The Holy Trinity on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• There are photographs and more information about the church at the Rolleston Church site.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559 for all entries and is in good condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   

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

Rolleston is a village and a parish 3 miles east by south of Southwell, bounded on the south and east by the River Trent, and intersected by the River Greet. The parish lies 122 miles north of London and 5 miles south of Newark-on-Trent. The old parish boundaries included the townships of Rolleston and Fiskerton. The parish covers 1,679 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A612 arterial road north-east out of Nottingham. At Thrugarton, turn right, east, and follow the county road thru Fiskerton to Rolleston.
   
• There is a railway that runs along the eastern edge of the village. Daily passenger service is available via East Midland Trains. The railway station used to be known as "Rolleston Junction" and it is adjacent to the Southwell Racecourse. There is no taxi or bus service from the station.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• The Southwell Hunt and Hurdle Races were moved to Rolleston in 1898 to a new course laid out in the parish near the railway station. They are still called the Southwell Races.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Racecourse notice on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.
   
• The SUTTON Family Album has a photograph of Station Road, 1951 on Geo-graph, taken in 1951. The buildings haven't changed much.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of all that is left of the Village Cross on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012. This is a Grade II structure with English Heritage.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Rolleston Crown Pub on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Bromley Arms on the Trent River in Fiskerton on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of The Dapper Spaniel Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020. This was formerly the Crown Inn.

• The Manor House was taken down in 1813. The manor house had its own chapel. The manor house also had a moat and fishponds, with water supplied by the River Greet.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the relatively modern Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK743525 (Lat/Lon: 53.064587, -0.892678), Rolleston 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 Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 7, 1914 tells us that three men of Rolleston had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion. Those men are:

1. Thomas S. CULLEN, farmer
2. R. HARNESS
3. S. T. SHARPE
    

The War Memorial plaque is a bronze tablet mounted in the south aisle of Holy Trinity Church. It was unveiled by Lieutenant G. WRIGHT of Fiskerton Manor, on April 1st, 1921.

Also mounted on the church wall is a Roll of Honour of all parishioners who served in World War One.

There is no memorial for World War II or other hostilities.

The parish Roll of Honour lists 12 men who died during Worald War One:

1. BEMROSE, Charles William
2. BRYAN, Charles Henry
3. BRYAN, George Ernest
4. BUSH, Henry Christopher
5. COX, Samuel
6. FOSTER, Frank
7. GILLIATT, Cyril
8. HYDE, John William
9. PEPPER, Cecil
10. SWANN, Thomas Humphrey
11. VOCE, Charles William
12. WILLOWS, Charles

The Rolleston Junction is a quarterly not-for-profit community magazine produced by people from Rolleston for the people of Rolleston. Ask for copies at the Town Hall. Older copies may exist at the Libraries mentioned above.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Thurgarton Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Rolleston Parish Council regarding civic and political matters, but they are NOT staffed to assist 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 every other Wednesday.
   
• The poor have the interest of £130, bequeathed by Sir Thomas LODGE, Diana GIBSON, Luke WILLIAMSON and Nicholas KORLBY in various years.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Rolleston	Fiskerton
1801	265	230
1841	715
1851	252	333
1861	268	319
1871	246
1881	232
1891	208	283
1901	193	261
1911	181

Rolleston had a small public elementary school built here for 75 children prior to 1912. In 1912, the attendance was only 33 pupils.