Account of baptisms and funerals.

Born 28th November, 1845. Educated at Shrewsbury School. Dublin University BA. (Jun. Mod. Mental and Moral Science). 1875 LL.B. 1879 LL.D. Ordained at Hereford 1873. Curate of Broseley,

1873-75. Math. Tutor, St. Martin’s Training College 1875. Curate of St. Martin’s, York 1876-77. Curate of All Hallows’, York, 1877-81. Vicar Choral and Minor Canon of York Minster 1875-1881. Rector of Treswell 1881-1896.

He married Elizabeth Wilson of York, and had a son Hugh, and two daughters. The eldest, Dorothv, married Rev. R. D. Foster, and the second, Margery, married Dr. Twining of Salcombe, Devon. Mrs. Stott is living at Braeside, Salcombe at the present time.

Dr . Stott had many interests, including music and photography and gardening. He added several rooms to the old Rectory, and enlarged the gardens to their present size in 1897.

Services were held in the Mission Room in Albert Road, and Bishop Ridding was anxious that a new Church should be built in South Retford. Dr. Stott made plans for St. Alban’s Church, and the Chancel was opened for Service on 22nd June, 1903, the cost being nearly £5,000. St. Alban’s Hall was erected in 1902, and used as a temporary Church. The Old Churchyard was closed, and a new part consecrated, in 1906.

Dr. Stott went to Egypt for his health, but unfortunately contracted typhoid fever on his return, and he died on 11th December, 1907, and was buried in Ordsall Churchyard.

On his death he left £3,017.13.9 in his will and the Reredos at St. Alban’s, and the Clock in Ordsall Tower were given in his memory.

Born 30th June, 1869 at Owmbv-cum-Searby, Lincolnshire. A son of John and Priscilla Foster, he had two brothers and two sisters.

Educated at Caistor Grammar School. B.A. London, 1896. Master at King Edward Grammar School, Retford, 1893-1902. Ordained by the Bishop of Southwell, Trinity Sunday 1900. Curate of Ordsall 1900-1908. Married Helen Margaret Dorothy Stott on 22nd April, 1903, and had two sons and a daughter. Rector of Ordsall, 1908—1922. Rector of Boxwell with Leighterton, Gloucestershire 1922-1934. Resigned and now lives at Wayside, Woodchester, near Stroud, in the same County.

The Rector lived after his marriage at Holly Mount, next to St. Alban’s Church, and continued to reside there all the time he was Rector of Ordsall. The old Rectory was let for a few years and sold in 1920.

In 1913 the first part of the Nave of St. Alban’s Church was built at a cost of £2,000, and the Church was consecrated on Whit-Sunday 1913. Ordsall Parish Hall was built in 1922, and the Churchyard extended a second time in 1922. He was Rural Dean of Retford 1918-1922, and exchanged livings with the succeeding Rector in 1922.