Hougham, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hougham All Saints is an Ancient Parish. The chapelry of Marston, Lincolnshire was formed from this parish. The church was founded in 1562.

The church is built in the Norman style and contains a monument to Sir Hugh de Bussey thought to be a senior in the Knights Templar. There is also a large tomb dedicated to Arthur William Thorold.

The church is alongsdie the River Witahm and slightly concealed from the village.

HOUGHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Newark, wapentake of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 6¼ miles (N. N. W.) from the town of Grantham.

Civil Registration
The parish was in the Claypole sub-district of Newark registration district.

This parish was from 1837 within Newark registration district Following re-organisation of local government historical registration was transferred to Lincolnshire Certificates can be obtained from: Lincolnshire Certificate Applications PO Box 760 Lincoln LN2 5WG Phone: 01522 782244 Email: regist@lincolnshire.gov.uk

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
Hougham 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 Hougham Par 1 will identify available images.

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

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Newark Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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
www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Hougham/