Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STOKE-SOUTH, a township and a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln. The township lies on the river Witham, 2 miles SSW of Great Ponton r. station, and 6 S of Grantham; is sometimes called Stoke-Rochford; and has a post-office, of that name, under Grantham. The parish contains also North Stoke and Easton townships. Stoke Rochford is part of the civil parish of Stoke Rochford and Easton.

STOKE, SOUTH (St. Andrew and St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Grantham, wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Colsterworth.

Additional information:

North Stoke and South with Easton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lincolnshire, created in 1776 from North Stoke Ancient Parish and South Stoke Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Easton

North Stoke a village referred to in the Domesday Book was cleared in 1841 to create the park at Stoke Rochford.

The ecclesiastical parish is known by the same name, and is part of The Colsterworth Group in the Deanery of Beltisloe, Diocese of Lincoln. The parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and Saint Mary, and also serves as the parish church for Easton.

Civil Registration
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
Stoke Rochford 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
Grantham 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/Stoke/