Walesby

The Library at Ollerton will prove useful in your research.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Edmund.
   
• Most of the church building is from the 13th and 14th century. It appears that the north wall was rebuilt in 16th century.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Edmund's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2009.
   
• Chris MORGAN also has a photograph of St. Edmund's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1579.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford (No. 2 deanery of Retford).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel built here before 1869.
   
• Mick GARRATT has a photograph of the disused Wesleyan Methodist Church in Chapel Street on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
   
• Tim HEATON also has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   

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

Walesby is both a village and a parish sitting 141 miles north of London, about 3.5 miles north-east of Ollerton and 3.5 miles west of Tuxford. The parish covers 1,260 acres.

The hamlet of Willoughby is in this parish, a half mile north-east of Walesby village. Haughton is a former village and parish that are now part of Walesby parish. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B6387 arterial road north out of Ollerton. The B6387 passes through the west edge of the village of Walesby.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• The village used to hold a "sheep-clipping" and annual feast on the Wednesday nearest to the 25th of June.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Carpenters Arms Inn on Boughton Road on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   
• These are the names associated with the "Carpenters Arms" in various directories:
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK684705 (Lat/Lon: 53.227255, -0.977499), Walesby 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 white stone tablet with black lettering inside St. Edmund's Church. It is a Roll of Honour for those who died AND those who served. The tablet covers World War One, but two names from World War Two have been inserted on the bottom.

There is a War Memorial (Roll of Honour) plaque in the church on the south wall.

1914 - 1918 THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY
KILLED IN ACTION

1. MAJOR J. B. ROYLE
2. CORPL. A. MILLS
3. PTE. W. DAWSON
4.  " C. HAXBY
5.  " F. KNIGHT
6.  " F. LAUGHTON
7.  " S. RILEY
8.  " G. STEED
9.  " G. TAYLOR
10.  " L. WHITWORTH

THOSE WHO SERVED

1. SERGT. G. COWLISHAW
2.  " G. HARRISON
3.  " H. HARRISON
4. CORPL. W. MILLS
5.  " R. WELBY
6. PTE. F. ADDERSLEY
7.  " W. ASHWORTH
8.  " W. BANKS
9.  " W. BILYARD
10.  " F. CARROTT
11.  " L. CHAPPELL
12.  " A. DALBY
13.  " H. DALBY
14.  " H. DOUGHTY
15.  " J. FILLINGHAM
16.  " T. FILLINGHAM
17.  " E. FLOYD
18.  " W. FULWOOD
19.  " J. HARDY
20.  " L. HARRISON
21.  " H. HAXBY
22.  " E. HIND
23.  " C. NICE
24.  " H. NUNN
25.  " H. ROBINSON
26.  " W. SISSONS
27.  " G. STANLEY
28.  " T. VASS
29.  " E. WARD
30.  " W. WARD
31.  " HD. WHITWORTH
32.  " HY. WHITWORTH
33.  " HT. WHITWORTH
34.  " M. WHITWORTH
35.  " C. WOOD

JOHN GEORGE COWLISHAW
BERTRAM SMITH
1939 - 1945

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Walesby Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1821.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	250
1851	362
1861	327
1871	286
1881	282
1891	274
1901	261
1911	233
1921	257
1931	336

• A school was endowed here in 1760 by Rev. Richard JACKSON.
   
• A National School was built here before 1869.