Wollaton Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

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Wollaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire. Cossall is a chapelry of Wollaton.

Alternative names: Wollaton with Cossall, Woolaton and Cossall, Woolaton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1576
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1627

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOLLATON, a parish, with a village, in Basford district, Notts; 1¾ mile W of Radford r. station, and 3 W of Nottingham. It has a post-office under Nottingham. Acres, 2,340. Real property, £5,352. Pop., 555. Houses, 116. W. Hall was built in 1588, by Sir F. Willoughby; is in the florid Tudor style; was attacked in 1831, by the Reform rioters; and is the seat of Lord Middleton. The living is a rectory, united with Cossall, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £721. Patron, Lord Middleton. The church is old but good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Thomas Dexter, stocking-weaver, of Woolaton, co. Nottm., & Mary Dod, lic. 18 July 1788Ilkeston Derbyshire
  

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Buildings, dwellings, etc. ( 1 )
House and household in Elizabethan England : Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby family
Author: Friedman, Alice T.

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

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wollaton, 1627-1860
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton, St. Leonard parish registers, 1576-1960
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wollaton (Nottinghamshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Marriages at Wollaton, 1578-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

Miscellaneous parish documents, 1845-1886
Author: Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Wollaton, Nottingham, England ; christenings, 1813-1860
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Land and property ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1845-1886
Author: Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Manors ( 1 )
Report on the manuscripts of Lord Middleton preserved at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire : presented to Parliament by command of His Majesty
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England); Stevenson, William Henry, d. 1924

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Occupations ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1845-1886
Author: Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1845-1886
Author: Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

England, Nottinghamshire, Wollaton – Public records ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish documents, 1845-1886
Author: Wollaton (Nottinghamshire)

Administration

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