Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes

Parish History
Gedney Hill is a civil parish and the ecclesiasticl parish was formed originally from a chapelry of neighbouring mother parish Gedney, Lincolnshire. Part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire

Gedney Hill is also known as Fen End locally and the Old South Eau Drain canal forms the county boundary.

The Church of Holy Trinity formed a separate ecclesiasatical parish in the sixteenth century; Bishop's Transcripts date from 1563 parish registers from 1693.

A General Baptist chapel was built at Gedney Hill in 1883.

GEDNEY-HILL, or Gedney-Fen, a parish, in the union of Holbeach, wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, 6¾ miles (E.) from Crowland.

Civil Registration
This parish was part of Holbeach sub-district in 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 Hill Par 1 will identify available images.

Link to the FamilySearch 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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