Pepper Gowt Plot, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Pepper Gowt, par., Lincolnshire, in Boston dist.

Additional Information:

The location is approximately that shown for Pepper Gowt in the Boston area enlargement on the 1888 Sanitary Districts Diagram for Lincolnshire. The name has not been located on a topographic map.

Pepper Gowt Plot (also known as Rowlands Marsh} was a tract of land gained by the straightening of the River Witham in the early 19th century. It lies about 2 miles north of the town of Boston, and just south of Antons Gowt. It was briefly a civil parish, between 1858 and 1906, when it was abolished to enlarge the parish of Skirbeck. Skirbeck parish was in turn abolished in 1932, and the area once known as Pepper Gowt Plot or Rowlands marsh, is simply known as Witham Marsh today, and falls within the parish of Fishtoft.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lincolnshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lincolnshire ($)
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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
Boston 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.

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