Deeping Fen, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Extra-Parochial History
DEEPING-FEN, was originally an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Peterborough, wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, 6 miles (S. W.) from Spalding.

In 1845 the ecclesisatical parish of Deeping St Nicholas was formed and the civil parish was formed in 1856.

The church of St Nicholas was built in 1845 by Charles Kirk of Sleaford and has been designated a grade II listed building by English Heritage Search listed building

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registration
Prior to 1862 the extra parochial area was in the Bourne registration district; later it was part of the Deeping St Nicholas sub-district of Spalding registration district. Search 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
Deeping Fen is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Deeping St James.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Census Records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Spalding 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/DeepingFen/