Gedling

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Carlton Free Library on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007. The Library is on Manor Road and is normally open 4 days per week. The Library has a Local History Collection that you may find very useful.

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The nearby Library at Nottingham is also a handy source of local information.

• Charles GERRING, "A History of Gedling, Notts," publ. 1908, Murrays Nottingham Book Company , ASIN: B00474RC1U .

Carlton (township) Cemetery is on Cavendish Road.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Carlton Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2008.

Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of Carlton Cemetery (riot of colours) on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2020.

Gedling Cemetery is a small cemetery on Arnold Lane. Alan MURRAY-RUST provides a photograph of the gates to the Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009.

In All Hallows Churchyard are the graves of Alfred SHAW (died 1907) and Arthur SHREWSBURY (died 1903). They were famous cricket players who played for Nottinghamshire and England on many occasions. SHAW was a bowler and SHREWSBURY a batsman. They lie just over the length of a cricket pitch apart.

Also in the churchyar is the grave of John FLINDERS (died 1798) who served as a soldier for 62 years. When he came home to Gedling he found living with his relatives intolerable and went to live in the Workhouse because it had the same regimentation he had been used to all his military career.

The earliest grave marker in the churchyard is dated 13th May 1712. There are several eighteenth-century headstones made of Swithland slate.

• The parish was in the Carlton sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints (officially "All Hallows Anglican Church").
   
• The church was built in the 11th century in the Early English Style, although older churches on the site date back to 678.
   
• Some records refer to a parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas.
   
• A clock was added to the church tower in 1864.
   
• The church was restored in 1890.
   
• The church seats 450.
   
• The churchyard is closed for burials and is in the care of Gedling Borough Council who rebuilt the boundary wall to Arnold Lane in 2000.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Gedling Church Steeple on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007
   
• In the township of Carlton-in-the-Willows a church was built and dedicated to Saint Paul in 1885.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of St. Paul's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   
• This church was listed as Grade II in April, 1957.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558 and is in good condition.
   
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has the Gedling Parish Register for 1601-1802 on microfilm 0503495.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gedling.
   
• John MELLORS tells us: 23 Mar 1831: Fees to be paid by persons not resident in the parish of Gedling who wish to be buried in Gedling Church Yard:
   

A child under 7 years of age	£1.1.0
From 7 to 14	£2
For grown up persons	£5
Any person wishing to have a brick grave	£1
For making a vault in the church	£21
For putting a slab	£5
	All these fees to be paid to the Rector previous to the internment.

• The parish was in the Carlton sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.

Gedling is a village, a township and a parish 123 miles north of London, about 4 miles east of Nottingham and 10 miles south-west from Southwell. The parish covers about 4,500 acres and includes the townships of Gedling, Stoke-Bardolph and Carlton.

If you are planning a visit:

• Gedling is now a suburb of Greater Nottingham city.
   
• Passenger rail service ceased in 1960.
   
• There is bus service from Nottingham city centre.
   
• Gedling House Woods is a small nature reserve tucked away behind the Carlton-le-Willows academy in Gedling village.

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• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Gedling to another place.

John SUTTON has a photograph of the miners' memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2013.

The South Nottinghamshire Fox Hounds were kenneled in this parish in the early 1900s.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK617426 (Lat/Lon: 52.977207, -1.082567), Gedling which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
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• Bing (was Multimap)
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• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
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• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Colonel William Henry BLACKBURN lived in the Manor House in 1912. Apparently he emigrated to New York in the USA in December, 1919.
   
• Lt-Col. W. H. BLACKBURN gave a Memorial Hall to the village in memory of the dead of The Great War. John SUTTON has a photograph of the Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2013.
   
• In the church there is an alabaster tablet in the north isle. You can read more about the memorial at the Southwell Church History Project site.
   
• The Traces of War website tells us that there are 8 Commonwealth war graves from World War II.
   
• H. GIRLING, the sergeant Instructor for the 4th Nottinghamshire Volunteer Battalion lived in this village in 1904.
   
• The west door of the parish church was restored as a memorial to Second Lieutenant George Lottinga SMITH.
   
• There is also a War Memorial that was added to Carlton Cemetery in 2018. Alan MURRAY-RUST provides a photograph of this War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 5 April, 2020.

• These are the names taken from the Nottingham County Council War Memorials site.

1. ALLITT, George Henry
2. ARMSTRONG, Frank Elleray
3. ASTILL, George
4. BAMKIN, William Bishop
5. BARKER, Amos
6. BEE, Frank Sydney
7. BEE, Robert Harold
8. BEECROFT, Frederick Mason
9. BERTIE, Ninian Mark Kerr
10. BOWN, Sidney Horace
11. BUCKLEY, Arthur
12. CARRINGTON, Henry
13. CLAY, Frank Henry
14. COLUMBINE, George William
15. COTTRELL, William George
16. COY, Edwin Cecil
17. DENT, William Cecil
18. DODD, George Baker
19. GADSBY, Arthur
20. GROOM, John Charles
21. HALLAM, Herbert
22. HIGHFIELD, Thomas
23. JACKSON, Joe
24. LAMB, John
25. LAWRENCE, Sydney
26. LEAPER, Walter
27. LEWIN, John Wesley
28. MacFARLANE, William
29. MARRIOTT, Reuben
30. MARTIN, Reginald Frank
31. MAYFIELD, Alfred
32. MAYFIELD, George Albert
33. MERRY, Alfred
34. MERRY, Arthur
35. MOORE, Arthur Hermon
36. MOSEDALE, Harold
37. MULLINS, Thomas Mullins
38. MUSSON, Percy
39. NELSON, Francis
40. POWELL, Douglas William
41. READ(E), Samuel
42. RHODES, George
43. SALVIN, Jesse
44. SALVIN, Ralph
45. SHELTON, Charles
46. SIMPSON, Wilfred
47. SMITH, Daniel
48. SMITH, George Lawrence Enoch Lotinga
49. STREETEN, Basil Robert
50. VICKERS, Frederick
51. WALES, Christopher
52. WHITEHEAD, William Arthur
53. WILLIAMS, Thomas Valentine
54. WILSON, George

There is a white marble plaque in St. Paul's Church in Carlton-in-the-Willows as well. The memorial was unveiled by Colonel Sir Lancelot ROLLESTON KCB DSO on 11 June 1921. This list is taken from the Nottingham War Memorial site:

1. William Appleton
2. John Henry Armstrong
3. Charles Barker
4. John George Bell
5. John Walter Benner
6. Henry Graham Benson
7. Frederick Bowley Young Smith Bird
8. Samuel Jesse Brasier
9. Claud William Briggs
10. Harry Burdett
11. Claude Burton
12. Charles Butcher
13. Francis Cornelius Butcher
14. Charles Fisher Clarke
15. Edgar Herbert Crinage
16. Joseph Walter Crinage
17. Cecil Isidore Cross
18. Charles Henry Curran
19. Enock Davis
20. John Michael Davy
21. Walter Dring
22. Henry Durose
23. Benjamin James Dyer
24. John Edge
25. Anthony Ellis
26. Levi Etches
27. William Flemings
28. Donald Gray Fletcher
29. Herbert Fletcher
30. James Harold Fletcher
31. E. A. Godfrey
32. William Green
33. Joseph Grimley
34. Charles Hallam
35. Frederick Henry Harper
36. Harry Harrop
37. William Harrop
38. Frank Harvey
39. Alfred Hastings
40. Frederick Henson
41. Tom Howarth
42. Joseph William Hull
43. Arthur Albert Huntbach
44. John William Hutchinson
45. Charles Henry Judge
46. Ernest Key
47. Edward Lane
48. Isaac Lang
49. James Albert Lang
50. George William Leadbeater
51. Frank Leaper
52. Frederick Samuel Leaper
53. Harry Leaper
54. Percy Leaper
55. William Herbert Leaper
56. George William Loach
57. Arthur Maddison
58. William Marriott
59. Ernest Musson
60. John William Musson
61. Charles Newcomb
62. Richard Newham
63. Mark Newton
64. Herbert Oakland
65. Joseph Oakland
66. William Osborne
67. Thomas Parnham
68. Albert Henry Parr
69. John George Peake
70. John William Peck
71. Michael Peck
72. William Morton Peck
73. Joseph Perryman
74. Fred Pierpoint
75. J. Robey
76. Charles Frederick Rouse
77. Thomas Arthur Rowlston
78. Samuel Ryalls
79. W. Shaw
80. John Henry Shelton
81. Ralph Shepperson
82. Leslie Sills
83. Harold Simons
84. Charles Stanley
85. Bertie A. Stead
86. Ezra Straw
87. Arthur Swinscoe
88. John Swinscoe
89. Leonard Swinscoe
90. Francis Leonard Terry
91. John William Thorley
92. Joe Alfred Tizzard
93. Samuel Tyler
94. Charles Ulyatt
95. Herbert Ullyatt
96. George Harold Walker
97. Alfred Ward
98. George Cyril Ward
99. William Henry Ward
100. Albert Watson
101. William Arthur Wealthall
102. William Arthur Whitehead
103. John Thomas Whyler
104. John Williams
105. Harry Wollacott
106. Cecil Alfred Woodward
107. Ernest Young
108. Ernest Young

The last two entries are indeed for two separate individuals.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Thurgarton Hundred in the Southern division of the county.
   
• In December, 1866, the Township of Stoke Bardolph was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1935, the Civil Parish was abolished and all the land (1,918 acres) was amalgamated into Carlton Civil Parish.
   
• In 1974, the parish joined the new Gedling Borough Council. You may contact the Gedling Borough Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• The parish purchased a parcel of land for the poor in 1735. In 1904 the land was let out or £27 yearly.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.

Year	Gedling	Carlton	Stoke Bardolph
1801	554	819	157
1841	411	2,014	216
1851	402	2,329	191
1881	506
1901	785	10,386	213

The parish had a Public Elementary School (mixed) to hold 132 children. In 1904, it had an avearage attendance of 130.