Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes



Parish History
"CARLTON-LE-MOORLANDS (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Newark, Lower division of the wapentake of Boothby-Graffo, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 10 miles (S. W. by W.) from Lincoln; containing 331 inhabitants. The church is a neat plain structure, with a fine tower. There is a place of worship for Baptists."

Carlton-le-Moorland St Mary ia an Ancient Parish with the Elizabethan restoration of an earlier Norman church.

The Lincolnshire Archives refer to Carlton in Moorland for the small village between Newark and Lincoln, the civil parish was formed as Carlton-le Moorland.

A Baptist chapel with burial ground was built in the village also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel and a Society of Friends meeting house.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Bassingham sub-district of Newark registration district

This parish was from 1837 within Newark registration district Following re-organisation of local government historical registration was transferred to Lincolnshire Certificates can be obtained from: Lincolnshire Certificate Applications PO Box 760 Lincoln LN2 5WG Phone: 01522 782244 Email: regist@lincolnshire.gov.uk

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 Carlton le Moorland 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
Newark Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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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