Holbeach, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Holbeach, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Market-Town and Parish History
Holbeach All Saints is a 14th century church in the Ancient Parish of Holbeach. The parish includes Fox's Low, Holbeach Bank, Holbeach Clough, Penny Hill, Holbeach Hurn, Holbeach Marsh, and Holbeach Drove.

Holbeach is a market town with a market charter dating from 1252.

From this parish the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holbeach Fen St John was formed in 1840; a mission church was also established at Holbeach Drove. This church was without dedication.

From this parish the Ecclesisatical Parish of Holbeach Marsh St Mark was formed in 1869. Holbeach Marsh Ecclesisatical Parish also had the chapel of ease of Holbeach March St Matthew which dates from 1869.

From this parish the Ecclesisastical parish of Holbeach Hurn St Luke was formed in 1870.

HOLBEACH (All Saints), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, 12 miles (S.) from Boston, 42 (S. E.) from Lincoln, and 106 (N. by E.) from London.

Civil Registration
This parish was within the Holbeach sub-district of Holbeach registration district.

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
Holbeach parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Lincolnshire Archives.

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 Holbeach All Saints Par 1, Holbeach Hurn Par 1 Holbeach Marsh Par 1 Holbeach St John Par 1 will identify available images.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Holbeach 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Holbeach/