Gedney, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes



Parish History
Gedney St Mary Magdalene is an Ancient parish which includes the chapelry of Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire and Dawsmere, Drove End, Chapelgate, and Clark's Hill.

The church is 13th century in origin and is known as "The Cathedral of the Fens".

In recent years it has lost several windows due to vandalism including a 14th century stained glass window.

The village and civil parish also included two Wesleyan Methodist chapels at Gedney and Gedney Dyke and a Baptist chapel at Gedney Broadgate.

GEDNEY (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Holbeach, wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, 11 miles (N. W.) from Wisbech.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Long Sutton sub-district of 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

The digitisation of parish records for the county now offers images 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 Gedney Drove End Par 1 and Gedney Par 1 will identify available images.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

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.

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