Hawerby cum Beesby, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hawerby cum Beesby St Margaret is an Ancient Parish in Lincolnshire.

Thesmall Norman church is a redundant Anglican church in the grounds of Hawerby Hall. The 12th-13th century church has been designated as a grade II* listed building and was restored in 1846 and declared redundant in 1974; it was used as an art gallery but is now in disrepair. Parishioners transferred to Wold Newton, Lincolnshire parish within the Binbrook St Mary and St Gabriel, Lincolnshire united benifice.

HAWERBY (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Caistor, wapentake of Bradley-Haverstoe, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 9 miles (N. N. W.) from Louth; containing, with the merged parish of Beesby.

Civil Registration
This parish was within the Great Grimsby sub-district of Caistor registration district until the 1890 re-organistion when it became part of the Grimsby sub-district of Grimsby 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
Hawerby cum Beesby 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
Initially part of Caistor Poor Law Union,Lincolnshire until 1890 reorganisation it became part of Grimsby 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/Hawerby/