Ollerton Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Ollerton is a chapelry of Edwinstowe Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1592
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1627
Nonconformists include: General Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
OLLERTON, a market-town and chapelry, in the parish of Edwinstowe, union of Southwell, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 18½ miles (N. N. E.) from Nottingham; containing 777 inhabitants. The chapelry consists of 2409 acres: the town is situated in the Forest of Sherwood, on the banks of the little river Maun, near its confluence with the Rainworth water. The market, which is of trifling importance, is held on Friday; and there is a fair for cattle and sheep on the 1st of May. The chapel is modern. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Colonel Thomas Markham, of Ollerton, a distinguished soldier in the royal cause during the civil war, was drowned in the Trent in 1643, after engaging the parliamentary forces near Gainsborough.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Ollerton Parish Registers
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Nottinghamshire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Southwell
- Probate Court: Court of the Manor of Edwinstowe
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Retford
- Poor Law Union: Southwell
- Hundred: Bassetlaw
- Province: York