Walkeringham

Although the Gainsborough Library is closer, the Library at East Retford will prove useful in your research.

• Walkeringham has a Cemetery just outside the village to the south-west, on Mill Lane.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Cemetery gates on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph inside of Walkeringham Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the lych gate on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalen.
   
• The church dates from the 13th century.
   
• The church seats 240.
   
• The church is a Grade I structure with British Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Mary Magdalene Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1605 and is in good condition.
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Bawtry.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1886. This is now a private residence.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here prior to 1912.
   

• The parish was in the Misterton sub-district in the Gainsborough Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Walkeringham is a village and a parish 150 miles north of London, 11 miles north-east of East Retford and 4 miles north-west from Gainsborough. The parish is separated from Lincolnshire by the River Trent.

The Walkeringham Village Hall on Stockwith Road is available to hire for your family re-union.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

On 20 Oct. 1834 Jane SMITH was baptized. She would die in Auckland, NZ, in 1907. She married Henry LEADBEATER in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1861. He, too, died in Auckland, NZ.

• Bricks were made here in the 1800s and early 1900s.
   
• P. L. CHADWICK has a photograph of the Fox and Hounds Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
   
• These are the names associated with the "Fox and Hounds" in various directories:
   

• Walkeringham has been devastated by floods in recent years. The 2007 flooding damaged much of the village.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK771922 (Lat/Lon: 53.420974, -0.841308), Walkeringham which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• 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)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• 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.

A war Memorial plaque was placed inside the St. Mary's church to honor those who died in World War I.

There is one Commonwealth War Grave in the churchyard from World War I:

1. Charles William OTTER, priv., 62nd Btn. Machine Gun Corps, age 26, died 9 Sept. 1918. Son of Bingham and Selina OTTER.

The names listed on the bronze plaque in the middle of the church's north wall are:

1. ----- Name -----        Age    Died
2. W. H. NICHOLSON, 18, 8 Aug. 1915
3. ALBERT H. BRANNICK, 31, 9 Aug. 1915
4. HENRY BURDEN, 24, 16 Nov. 1915
5. THOMAS H. CLARK, 27, 15 Dec. 1915
6. ERNEST BURDEN, 22, 5 June 1916
7. DAVID BRANNICK, 16, 1 July 1916
8. WALTER GRAHAM, 33, 1 July 1916
9. ERNEST VERNON, 19, 29 Oct. 1916
10. REUBEN ATKINSON, 20, 19 Nov. 1916
     
11. THOMAS STYRING, 24, 1 March 1917
12. RALPH FOX, 33, 14 June 1917
13. JOHN ELLIOTT, 26, 15 July 1917
14. HARRY P. SPENCER, 23, 31 July 1917
15. HENRY LOBLEY, 22, 1 Oct. 1917
16. HARRY E. WINFIELD, 19, 23 Oct. 1917
17. JOHN W. HILL, 21, 24 Dec. 1917
     
18. JOSEPH CAVE, 28, 22 March 1918
19. JAMES WALKENSHAW, 43, 31 March 1918
20. FRANCIS MIDDLETON, 31, 22 April 1918
21. ARTHUR LOCKWOOD, 39, 24 April 1918
22. CHARLES W. OTTER, 26, 9 July 1918
23. EDWARD HARRISON, 32, 11 Aug. 1918
24. THOMAS HORBERRY, 20, 6 Sept. 1918
25. ALFRED E. SCRAFIELD, 29, 18 Oct. 1918
26. FRANK WOODHEAD, 19, 18 Oct. 1918
27. SAM SMITH, 19, 5 Nov. 1918

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Walkeringham parish council regarding civic or political matters, but they can NOT assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1802.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	419
1831	529
1841	536
1851	608
1861	683
1881	709
1891	752
1901	718

A Public Elementary School was built here in 1850 by the parish vicar. The school was enlarged in 1914.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Walkeringham Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.