Lincoln Bishop's Palace, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Lincoln Bishop's Palace, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
The Bishop's Palace was built by the cathedral builder later canonised bishop Hugh of Lincoln and was the administrative centre of the diocese. Built in the twelfth century when the diocese extended to cover the later lands of the Diocese of Ely and the sees of Oxford and Peterborough.

The diocese had more monasteries than the rest of England prior to their Dissolution and the the lands attached made the administration complex.

Lincoln Bishop's Palace is one of seven Extra-Parochial Places and lies within the boundary of Lincoln the Virgin Mary Cathedral (Ancient Parish).

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
Lincoln Bishop's Palace 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.

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Lincoln 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/Lincoln/