Saxby by Owmby, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SAXBY (St. Helen), a parish in the E. division of the wapentake of Aslacoe, parts of Lindsey, union and county of Lincoln, 4 miles (S. E.) from Spittal. The living is a vicarage, with the rectory of Firsby united.

Saxby by Owmby St Helen was built as a mortuary chapel for the Earls of Scarborough (the Lumley Saunderson family) in 1775.

The church was restored in 1869 when the apse window was blocked and plastered over, 1895 and following earthquake damage in 2004.

The village is to the north of Lincoln Owmby, Lincolnshire is to the north and Spridlington, Lincolnshire parish to the south.

The village and civil parish of Saxby includes the neighbouring mediaeval settlements of East and West Firsby about 4 miles north of Lincoln. The mediaeval parish of East Firsby lost its church and the civil parish was abolished in 1936.

This parish should not be confused with Saxby All Saints, Lincolnshire or other Saxby parishes in England.

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Civil Registration
This parish was in the North-East sub district of Lincoln 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
SThe Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lincolnshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lincolnshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Saxby/