Lackford, Suffolk Genealogy

England   Suffolk     Parishes   Lackford

Parish History
Lackford is a small rural village in the Lark River Valley. It is located along the main road (A1101), almost equal distance, between the towns of Bury St. Edmunds and Mildenhall. It once had a school and post office but now has no amenities. There are about 100 houses in Lackford, about half were built after 1970. The older homes, including Lackford Manor are along the main road. The parish church dedicated to St. Lawrence is located on a rise at the edge of the village. Lackford Lakes, a series of small lakes created from former gravel pits, is a nature reserve which attracts a variety of wildfowl year round.

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
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Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Suffolk 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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