Gunby St Nicholas, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Gunby St Nicholas is an Ecclesiastical parish created in 1733 from Gunby Ancient Parish and Stainby Ancient parish.

Gunby is a hamlet in south west Lincolnshire of around 30 houses in the district of South Kesteven.

It is located close to the borders with Leicestershire and Rutland, the closest town being Grantham although it is within 15 miles of Oakham, Rutland and Stamford. To the east is North Witham, Lincolnshire, to the north Stainby and to the west  Sewstern, Leicestershire. The closest amenities are in Colsterworth, Lincolnshire,  South Witham, Lincolnshire and Buckminster, Leicestershire.

The village church is dedicated to St Nicholas. The village name is Scandinavian and means village of Gunnhildr. The full name of the village is Gunby St Nicholas.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gunby like this:

GUNBY ST. NICHOLAS, a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln; on the SW verge of the county, 6 miles SW of Corby r. station, and 10 S of Grantham. Posttown, Colsterworth, under Grantham. Acres, 66s. Real property, £1, 669. Pop., 164. Houses, 34. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Stainby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church comprises nave and chancel, with later English tower. Charities, £6. This parish should not be confused with Gunby St Peter, Lincolnshire elsewhere in the county and Diocese of Lincoln.

STAINBY (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Grantham, wapentake of Beltisloe, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 2 miles (W.) from Colsterworth.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Material deposited at Lincolnshire Archives,

St Rumbold Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AB England

Enquiries: lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk The website enables you to view a PDF file for all records held for each parish as part of continuing efforts to provide an online catalogue.

The digitisation of parish records for the county now offers images via the Lincs to the past website (July 2011). Use advanced search terms at Search Lincs to the past to search for available images for parish registers and other records for this parish with images. Advance search terms Gunby St Nicholas Par 1 and Stainby Par 1 will identify available images.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Grantham Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lincolnshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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