Kneesall, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
KNEESALL (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Southwell, partly in the South-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, and partly in the N. division of that of Thurgarton, N. and S. divisions of the county of Nottingham, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Ollerton with the townships of Kersall and Ompton. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information:

Kneesall St Bartholomew is an Ancient Parish which included Boughton, Ompton, and Kersall. The civil parish of Kneesall, Kersall and Ompton is part of the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.Kneesall Wikipedia

The Southwell and Newark Church History Project are researching the church and parish history Kneesall St Bartholomew

The parish Church of St Bartholomew has been desigated as a grade I listed building. British listed Building

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.

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
Kneesall (Kneesale or Chensale) in GENUKI