Woodsetts Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Woodsetts is an Ecclesiastical Parish partly in Nottinghamshire and partly in Yorkshire; Created in 1841 from Letwell with Gildingwells Ecclesiastical Parish and Wallingwells extra-parochial in Nottinghamshire.

Alternative names: Laughton en le Morthen St George

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1841
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1841

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOODSETTS, a township-chapelry in Anston parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles NNW of Shireoak r. station, and 4 NW by W of Worksop. Post town, Worksop.

Acres, 838. Real property, £1,948. Pop., 164. Houses, 42. The manor belongs to Sir F. W. White, Bart.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York-Value, £230. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was built in 1841.

There is a parochial school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Woodsetts – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. George’s Church, Woodsetts, South Yorkshire : record of plaques etc. inside the church and gravestones etc. in the churchyard, 1844-1985
Author:    Stratford, Gerald Howland, 1934-

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

England, Yorkshire, Woodsetts – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Woodsetts, 1841-1867
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodsetts (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Woodsetts, St. George’s, parish registers, 1841-2002
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodsetts (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish register transcripts, 1841-1978
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodsetts (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Woodsetts – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Woodsetts, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Woodsetts – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessments for Woodsetts township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments, 1836-1899
Author:    Woodsetts (Yorkshire); Gildingwells (Yorkshire)

Tithe appointment for Woodsetts, 1840
Author:    Woodsetts (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Worksop
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union:    Worksop
  • Hundred:    Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province:    York