Vicars of Arksey

This list of Arksey Rectors and Vicars has been pieced together from a variety of sources (see below), and remains an on-going project. It is not a comprehensive list as yet, and some of the dates are a bit vague, but it is the most comprehensive list available in one place to date.

AC - Acolyte; CHP - Chaplain; CL - Clerk;  D - Deacon; P - Priest;  R - Rector; SUBD - Subdeacon. 

Rectors

1249 - Robert de Newmarch CL

1276 - Tedisius de Camilla CHP

1291 - Peter of Chester R (de Cestria) 

1294 - Roger de Waltham P (also recorded as Roger de Wortham and Roger de Wrotham).

1319 - Richard de la Lee SUBD

1321 - Roger de Stanford P (sometimes recorded as Robert de Stanford)

1322 - Roger de Clipsby P (sometimes recorded as Roger de Clisseby) 

1325 - William de Northwell D (sometimes recorded as William de Northewell)

1329 - Robert de Hillam P
           John Kirtling

1330 -  John de Sandal

1359 - John Playce CHP

1361 - William Wirksworth CHP (sometimes recorded as William de Wirkesworth)

1364 - John Noble CHP

1371 - John Shorton P, R in 1375 (sometimes recorded as John de Shorton) 

1392 - Adam de Eggleston P

1419 - John Baker P (sometimes recorded as John Baker del Clipstone, or del Chipstone)

1420 - John Credelyng (licenced for a year, but no instruction given)

1428 - John Kirteling R (may be same person as John Credelyng above)

1442 - John Shepstawe R*

1446 - Michael Tregorre P 

1446 - William Kinwoldmarsh (sometimes recorded as Kynwolmersh or Kyllingmersh)

1469 - Edward Cresacre AC

Vicars

1504 - Henry Lee CL

1507 - John Knolles

1532 - William Wildbore P (sometimes recorded as William Wilbore)
            Milo Walker (sometimes recorded as Miles Walker) 

1570 - Robert Usher CL (sometimes recorded as Robert Ussher)

1602 - John Halliday

1637 - Isaac Atkinson

1662-1668 - Samuel Burdett

1668-1673 - Stephen Harvey  

1674-1702 - John Mawhood (b, 18 Aug 1634. d. Jan 1703 at Carr House, Doncaster).

1702-1708 - John Lee

1708-1748 - Thomas Rodwell

1748-1771 - Beaumont Whitehead

1771-1782 - George Cooke (vicar of Darfield)

1787-1807 - John Ramsden (also Rector of Crofton)

1807 - Alexander Cooke (also Rector of Warmsworth)

Between 1812 and 1850 Arksey was administered by a staff of curates, officiating at various times. Marriages were conducted by the following clergymen.

1812-1818 - Benjamin Dockray (curate)

1818 - John Sharpe (officiating minister)

1818 - 1829 - Peter Ashworth (curate)

1822 - George Pickering (curate of Doncaster)

1826 - John Sorsby (officiating minister)

1827 - Alexander Cooke

1829 - William Cuthbert (officiating minister) 

1830 - John Lister (officiating minister) 

1829 - 1839 - George Pickering

1839 - 1842 - William J T Dodgson

1843 - 1851 - John Sorsby

1854-1865 - William Stoddart

1866-1892 - Walter A Gray

1892 - 1906 - Thomas Todd

1907 - 1910 - Edward William Jones

1911-1924 - Arthur Rhys James

1924 - 1928 - H Colin Fraser

1929 - 1953 - John Pierce Price

1953 - 1961 - Henry H Naylor

1964 -1969 - T J Hazell

1971-1975 - William Anthony Stratford

1977-1979 - G W T Hossent

1984 - G O Cummings

1986-1998 - Colin J A Hickling (b.1931, d.2007)

1998 - mid 2000's - Joan Ashton

Present - Stephen Paul Dickinson (shared with Saint Philip and St James church, Victoria Road, Bentley).

*Passage relating to John Shepstawe from Fasti Parochiales, vol 1, by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

JOHN SHEPSTAWE. As r[ector] of Erkesey (Arksey) was sued by Nicholas FitzWilliam in Mich[aelmas] term, 1442 for seizing various wagonloads of wheat, barley, beans and peas, at Bentley. The r[ector] said that he took the corn for the tithe due to him. Nicholas said that the place in respect of which the seizure was made was not in Arksey par[ish], but in Doncaster, and that the a[bbot] of St. Mary's York, who was r[ector] of the ch[urch] of Doncaster, had sold him all the tithe corn arising in his par[ish]. The jury found for the plaintiff, and awarded him 80 marks damages (Baildon and the Baildons, i, 369, quoting De Banco 727, m. 603 d). 

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List of Clergy Photo

The photo below shows a list of past clergy of Arksey as displayed inside Arksey church.

Clergy list in Arksey church.
My own photo

Sources:

List inside Arksey church

Notes on the Parish of Arksey - A E Trout

The Clergy Database

Arksey Parish Registers

Census Records (transcriptions available in the tabs on this blog)

Telephone Directory Records (available from Ancestry)  

Church Memorials    

William Bryan Cooke Memorial Book
 
Fasti Parochiales, vol 1, Yorkshire Archaeological Society