Walesby, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Walesby, Nottinghamshire ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage and death records.

Parish History
WALESBY (St. Edmund), a parish, in the union of Southwell, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 3 miles (N. E.) from Ollerton.

Additional information:

Walesby St Edmund is an Ancient parish in the newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.

The parish Church of St Edmund has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See also Walesby Wikipedia

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.

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Walesby St Edmund Baptisms 1580-1901Marriages 1594-1956 Burials 1585-1960 Bishop's Transcripts 1606-1865 Nottinghamshire County Council County Hall West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online

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

Walesby. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1752, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. The original is held at Nottinhamshire Archives Ref DD/TS 19/33 and article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Magazine vol. 64, pages 29-30, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Southwell 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

Websites
Walesby in GENUKI