Lodge on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Lodge on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Parish History
LODGE-ON-THE-WOLDS, an extra-parochial tract in Bingham district, Notts; 6½ miles S of Bingham.

Additional information:

Lodge on the Wolds is an extra parochial place.

Directories and gazetteers contain references to a house formerly an Inn circa 1724 and described also as "only one house and 25 acres of land... It is said the house here was once a noted Lying-in-Asylum for pregnant ladies, who wished to secrete their illegitimate offspring, and afterwards pass themselves upon the fashionable world as "virgins chaste and fair". The occupier is identified as Henry RANDALL, the landowner as Henry Cole BINGHAM Esq. Subsequently the Lying In house was operated by John Morley.

The function of Lodge on the Wolds therefore seemed to be an extra parochial place for the temporary housing of new born illegitimate children and their mothers. Since the purpose of the Asylum was to be in an area away from local clergy visitation the registers of neighbours Stanton on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire and Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire post 1700 may not assist in researching suspected illegitimate births.

Further references to Lodge on the Wolds include:

Vision of Britain

The 1896 abolition of Lodge on the Wolds lead to its absorption into the civil parish of Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire for civil registration purposes. Bingham registration district

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

From 1837 until abolition in 1896 Lodge on the Wolds formed part of Bingham registration district

Church records
Lodge on the Wolds is an extra parochial place.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Bingham Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Nottinghamshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain