Wellow Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Wellow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Swithin

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1703
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WELLOW (St. Swithin), a parish, in the union of Southwell, South-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 1½ mile (S. E. by E.) from Ollerton; containing 549 inhabitants.

The parish is situated on the road from Worksop to Newark, and comprises 956a. 5p., of which upwards of 254 acres are in Wellow Park, a thickly wooded eminence on the north side of the village. The surface is in general hilly, and the soil clay and loam.

The living is a perpetual curacy j net income, £66; patron, the Earl of Scarborough; appropriator, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is principally a brick structure, roofed with slate; it was partly rebuilt and thoroughly repaired about the year 1810.

Here is a school with a small endowment.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Nottinghamshire, Wellow – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wellow, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Nottinghamshire, Wellow – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wellow, 1622-1849
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wellow (Nottinghamshhire)

The parish registers of Wellow, in the county of Nottingham
Author: Marshall, George W. (George William), 1839-1905

England, Nottinghamshire, Wellow – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Wellow, Nottingham, England

Administration

  • County: Nottinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Southwell
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Retford
  • Poor Law Union: Southwell
  • Hundred: Bassetlaw
  • Province: York