Farnsfield St Michael

List of Incumbents

1466 Thomas Hyll  
The following list is copied from a wooden commemorative board on the south wall of the church:
CURATES and VICARS CHORAL of SOUTHWELL

150?-1502

Thomas Waynwright

1502-15??

William Wylkynson

15??-1524

William Thure

1524-1529

Thomas Roods (?Thomas Rhodes)

VICARS OF FARNSFIELD

1529-1558

William Barray

1533-1538

? 'Dom' James Barra or Barran was first vicar; second was Nicholas Bullivant; in 1536 vicar was William Barra (James Boxe was chaplain)

1558-1559 

William Bonyfante

 

? Bullivant

1559-1560

Thomas Huddlestone

1560-1562 

William Pullen (?pulleyn or bullen - bullen most used)

1562-1568

John Sye (John Gye?)

1568-1573

William Richardson

1579-1599

Thomas Beckingham

1599-1623

Thomas Pawte

1660-1661

Gilbert Allen, MA

1661-1665

Francis Leeke

1665-1669

Joseph Jackson (also curate of Edingley)

1669-1671

William Ferne

1671-1689

Hugh Hill, BA

1689-1720

John Proctor

1720-1725

John Barnard, BA (also vicar of Bleasby, Vicar Choral Southwell Minster)

1725-1760

Samuel Bird, MA (Vicar Choral living in Southwell in 1743)

1760-1775

Charles Fowler, MA (Vicar Choral of Southwell Minster, curate of Kirklington, Morton and Edingley)

1775-1785

John Holmes, MA (also curate of Kirklington)

1785-1815

William Becher

1815-1825

William Barrow

1825-1827

Brooke Boothby

?1826 Thomas Coats Cane, also J. Oliver; also 1827 TC Lane becomes curate (information from parish registers at Mansfield Library)

1827-1830* 

John Thomas Becher

? 1829

John Drake Becher, curate’s licence

1830-1831

John Jarvis Cleaver

1831-1834+

George Wilkins

1834-1849

James Footitt

?1840

RH Fowler, R Goodacre, TL Cursham, C Cursham (curate from 1840-1845)
 
1845 T Oldacre, CL Maltby  
1845 George Wilkins, archdeacon  
1845 JM Wilkins, Rector of Southwell; HR Wilkins, curate (information from parish registers at Mansfield Library)  

1849-1874+

Henry Robert Wilkins

1875-1882

William Whitelegge

?1880

Arthur Fraser MA, curate (also 1882)

1882-1922

Robert Alexander McKee

1922-1946

Henry Massiah

1946-1951

Alfred Mollett Catley

1951-1959

Keith Bertie Frampton

1959-1972

Allan Hargreaves Medforth

1972-1982

Derek Gordon Mills

1983-2001

David John Bartlett

2002-2008

Elizabeth Faith Cully

2009-2010

Leeward Anthony Swaby

2011-

Richard Seymour Whiteley

* 'Rev. John Becher of Southwell' was responsible for The Workhouse in Southwell in 1824.

+ George Wilkins, Archdeacon of Nottingham, died 13th August, 1866. John Murray Wilkins was his son. He succeeded as Rector of Southwell, but was not Archdeacon. It is unclear if this is the same George Wilkins.