Sutton le Marsh, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Sutton le Marsh, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SUTTON-IN-THE-MARSH (St. Clement), a parish, in the union of Spilsby, Marsh division of the hundred of Calceworth, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 6½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Alford.

Sutton on Sea (sometimes called Sutton le Marsh or Sutton in the Marsh) is an Ancient Parish and small seaside village.

The church of St Clement is a grade II listed building designated by English Heritage which was built in 1818-1819 after the sea had inundated swept away part of the village and the church. The church was further rebuilt in 1860.

Two Methodist chapels were built here:

The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1834, the Primitive Methodist chapel dated from 1876.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Alford sub-district of Spilsby 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
Sutton le Marsh 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
Spilsby 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/SuttonleMarsh/