Bassingham, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes



Parish History
Bassingham is a village and civil parish about midway between Newark and Lincoln.

Bassingham St Michael is an Ancient Parish; the church parts of which are 10th century had its tower rebuilt twice both in 1782 and 1887. The church was restored in 1860.



The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1839 and chapels for Primitive methodists and Reformed Methodists were also built. A Salvation Army Mission Hall was also within the large village.

BASSINGHAM (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Newark, Lower division of the wapentake of Boothby-Graffo, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 8 miles (E. N. E.) from Newark, and 9 miles (S. W. by S.) from Lincoln. There are two places of worship for Wesleyans, and one for Primitive Methodists.

Civil Registration
fckLRfckLRThis parish was in the eponymous Bassingham sub-district of Newark registration district. fckLRfckLRThis parish was from 1837 within Newark registration district&lt;br&gt;Following re-organisation of local government historical registration was transferred to Lincolnshire&lt;br&gt;Certificates can be obtained from:&lt;br&gt;Lincolnshire&lt;br&gt;Certificate Applications&lt;br&gt;PO Box 760&lt;br&gt;Lincoln&lt;br&gt;LN2 5WG&lt;br&gt;Phone: 01522 782244&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Email: regist@lincolnshire.gov.uk &lt;br&gt; fckLRfckLRBirth, 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. fckLRfckLR==== Church records ====fckLRfckLRMaterial deposited at Lincolnshire Archives, fckLRfckLRSt Rumbold Street&lt;br&gt;Lincoln&lt;br&gt;Lincolnshire&lt;br&gt;LN2 5AB&lt;br&gt;England fckLRfckLREnquiries: 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. fckLRfckLRThe digitisation of parish records for the county now offers images&amp;nbsp; 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 Bassingham Par 1 will identify available images. &lt;br&gt; fckLRfckLRLink to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection fckLRfckLR==== Census records  ====fckLRfckLR&lt;br&gt; fckLRfckLR==== Poor Law Unions  ====fckLRfckLRNewark Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire fckLRfckLR==== Probate records  ====fckLRfckLRRecords 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. fckLRfckLR== Maps and Gazetteers ==fckLRfckLRMaps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.&lt;br&gt; fckLRfckLR*England Jurisdictions 1851 fckLR*Vision of BritainfckLRfckLR== Web sites ==fckLRfckLR fckLRfckLR== References  ==fckLRfckLR fckLRfckLR