Bolingbroke with Hareby, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes



Parish History
Old Bolingbroke St Peter and St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish for the market town of Old Bolingbroke created in 1739 from the merger of Bolingbroke Ancient Parish and Hareby Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Hareby West Fen, New Bolingbroke, Hareby, West Fen Allotment, East Fen Allotment, and Old Bolingbroke West Fen.

The 13th century church was restored in 1889-1890

The growth of New Bolingbroke necessitated the building of New Bolingbroke St Peter in 1854-1855



A Wesleyan Methodist chapel is referred to in gazeteers prior to 1848. "BOLINGBROKE (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Spilsby, W. division of the soke of Bolingbroke, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 30 miles (E. S. E.) from Lincoln, and 129 (N.) from London."

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Spilsby sub-district of Spilsby 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
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 Old Bolingbroke Par 1, New Bolingbroke Par1 and Hareby Par 1 will identify available images.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection with

Census records
Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Spilsby 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