West Burton St Helen

List of Incumbents

1556

John Snaynton

1579

Giles Walker

1687

? Rydial

1591

John Emote

1602

William May (who was accused of serving the cure without a license, and was suspected of adultery. He had a Cambridge BA.)

1608/9

John Beswicke – suspended for performing an illegal marriage.

1610

Richard Ellis

1612

Thomas Proctor

1613/14

Thomas Moulte

1616-19

John Standish

1624-6

John Graunt

1628-9

? Barnes (probably Edward, vicar of Bole)

1630-4

Robert Hodgson

1635-8

Richard Baylye

1641

? Bridges

1642-68

Nicholas Browne

1669

Stephen Masters

1686/7

Leonard Cowley. Also vicar of South Wheatley, died Nov 1705.

1706-13

George Ogle

1714-16

Henry Smith

1717-61

Robert Ayde. Also rector of Treswell

1761

Thomas Mottershaw. Lived at Retford by 1764 and buried there in 1774

1774

John Shaw

1815

George Morton

1819

William Mould

1837

John Mason, also vicar of Hayton

1845

John Lakeland. Living in Beckingham in 1848

1849

William Chapman Mee. Also vicar of Hayton.