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.