Leasingham with Roxholme, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Parishes

Guide to Leasingham with Roxholme, Lincolnshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Leasingham St Andrew is an Ecclesiastical Parish which was created by amalagamating the Parish of St John the Baptist North Leasingham and this parish in 1726. The parish includes North Leasingham and Roxholme.

St John the Baptist was demolished in the 17th century. There is a Wesleyan Chapel in the village.

Leasingham is one mile north of Sleaford and close by to the west is RAF Cranwell, the Royal Air Force College.

LEASINGHAM, NORTH (St. John The Baptist), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 2¾ miles (N. by W.) from Sleaford; containing, with the hamlet of Roxholme, 472 inhabitants.

Civil Registration
Leasingham is in the Sleaford sub-district of Sleaford 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 Leasingham Par 1 will identify available images.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection with

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/Leasingham/