Quarrington, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
QUARRINGTON (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Ashwardhurn, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 1½ mile (S. W. by S.) from Sleaford.

Additional Information:

Quarrington St Botolph is an Ancient Parish built of local Ancaster stone. The present church replaces the church mentioned in the Domesday survey and was restored in 1887.

There were two churches in this parish; that of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire merged to form the Ecclesisatical parish after the demise of St Giles church in the seventeenth century. It was not until the 1888 reorganisation that the Old Sleaford portion was joined in the civil parish.

The parish registers contain Old Sleaford events from the 17th century onward.

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Civil Registration
The parish was part of the Sleaford sub-district within Sleaford Registration district

The Kesteven County Asylum was built within this parish close to the boundary with South Raunceby part of North Rauceby with South Rauceby, Lincolnshire ecclesiastical parish. The Asylum opened at the end of the 19th century and closed in 1988.

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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lincolnshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lincolnshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Sleaford 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/Quarrington/