Kneesall Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Kneesall is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Other places in the parish include: Ompton, Kersall, and Boughton.
Alternative names: Kneesal
Parish church: St. Bartholomew
Parish registers begin:
Kneesall
- Parish registers: 1682
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Boughton
- Parish registers: 1685
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
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; containing, with the townships of Kersall and Ompton, 596 inhabitants.
In Kneesall and Ompton townships are 2878 acres, of which 92 are common or waste.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £10, with the perpetual curacy of Boughton annexed, and in the patronage of the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Southwell; net income, £100. The church is an ancient structure, in the later English style, with a square embattled tower.
There is a chapel of ease; also a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Southwell
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Newark
- Poor Law Union: Southwell
- Hundred: Bassetlaw; Thurgarton
- Province: York