Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WILLOUGHBY-IN-THE-WOLDS (St. Mary and All Saints), a parish, in the union of Loughborough, S. division of the wapentake of Rushcliffe and of the county of Nottingham, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Loughborough. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Willoughby-on-the-Wolds St Mary and All Saints is an Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire on the Fosse way in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire. The parish boundary froms part of the county boundary with neighbours Wymeswold, Leicestershire Prestwold, Leicestershire Seagrave, Leicestershire and Old Dalby, Leicestershire

The Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Willoughby on the Wolds 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 Willoughby on the Wolds St Mary and All Saints Baptisms circa 1670-1970 Marriages 1682-1970 Burials circa 1670-1901 Bishop's Transcripts 1627-1844 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

Willoughby on the Wolds. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1821, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. The original is held at Nottinhamshire Archives Ref DD/TS 19/35 and article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Magazine vol. 64, page 33, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n

Census Records
See Nottinghamshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Loughborough Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

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
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Websites
Willoughby on the Wolds in GENUKI