New Sleaford, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SLEAFORD, NEW (St. Denis), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 18 miles (S. S. E.) from Lincoln, and 116 (N. by W.) from London. There are places of worship for the Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon, Independents, and Wesleyans.

Additional information:

New Sleaford St Denys or Denis is an Ancient Parish for the market town of Sleaford.

The present church was built in 1271 with a local merchant as patron. The church has undergone restoration in subsequent centuries and the churchyard was enlarged at the end of the 18th century.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Sleaford sub District of Sleaford 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
New Sleaford 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

Genealogy
Turland, Michael. A Victorian Dynasty in the Building and Contracting Industry. History and family tree of William Kirk and wife unknown, with the following surnames; Knight, Chatwin, Parry, Peake, Yerburgh, Angrave, Stanley, Murr, Clay, Lee, Vickers, Patterson, Snow, Heath, Ingoldby, Cottingham, from 1749-1906. Article in Linolnshire Family History Magazine, vol.18.no.2. pages 81-86, FHL Ref. 942.53 D25Lf

Poor Law Unions
Sleaford 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/NewSleaford/