Quarrington, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
QUARRINGTON (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Ashwardhurn, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 1½ mile (S. W. by S.) from Sleaford.

Additional Information:

Quarrington St Botolph is an Ancient Parish built of local Ancaster stone. The present church replaces the church mentioned in the Domesday survey and was restored in 1887.

There were two churches in this parish; that of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire merged to form the Ecclesisatical parish after the demise of St Giles church in the seventeenth century. It was not until the 1888 reorganisation that the Old Sleaford portion was joined in the civil parish.

The parish registers contain Old Sleaford events from the 17th century onward.

Civil Registration
The parish was part of the Sleaford sub-district within Sleaford Registration district

The Kesteven County Asylum was built within this parish close to the boundary with South Raunceby part of North Rauceby with South Rauceby, Lincolnshire ecclesiastical parish. The Asylum opened at the end of the 19th century and closed in 1988.

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
Quarrington 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

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/Quarrington/