Wysall, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
Wysall Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire. Other places in the parish include: Thorpe in the Glebe and Thorpe Bochart.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wysall like this:

WYSALL, a parish, with a village, in the district of Loughborough and county of Nottingham; 6 miles NE of Loughborough r. station. It has a post-office under Nottingham. Acres, 1,360. Real property, £2,091. Pop., 274. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £123. Patron, Sir H. Bromley, Bart. The church has a tower and spire. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a parochial school, and charities £5.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Loughborough Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Nottinghamshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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