Sutton St Mary, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire

Parish History
Sutton St Mary (sometimes Long Sutton) is an Ancient Parish; other places in the parish include: Central Wingland, Sutton in Holland, and Little Sutton.

The Ecclesiatical parishes of Sutton St Edmund, Lincolnshire Sutton St James, Lincolnshire Sutton St Nicholas, Lincolnshire were formed from this parish.

The church dates from the 13th century and has the same lead covered timber spire design the crooked spire at Chesterfield, Derbyshire but here there is no similar effect.

A Congregational church from 1813 and a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built in 1839 together with a Baptist chapel from 1840 are found here.

Civil Registration
This parish was part of the Long Sutton sub-district of the Holbeach 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
Material deposited at Lincolnshire Archives,

St Rumbold Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AB England

Enquiries: 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.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Holbeach 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

Web sites
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