Gunby St Peter, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes

Parish History
Gunby is a hamlet about 1 mile east of Candleby and the civil parish is Candleby with Gunby.

Gunby Hall was built around 1700 for Sir William Massingberd, and was the former seat of the Massingberd family. The last in residence was Field Marshall Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd. Today the hall is owned by the National Trust, and is Grade I listed.

The Ancient Parish church of St Peter is within the Gunby Hall Park and was rebuilt in 1870 to replace the mediaeval predecessor on the same site.

This parish should not be confused with Gunby St Nicholas, Lincolnshire or Stainby with Gunby St Nicholas, Lincolnshire.

GUNBY (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Spilsby, Wold division of the wapentake of Candleshoe, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 5¼ miles (E.) from Spilsby.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Burgh 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
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 Gunby St Peter Par 1 will identify available images.

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

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.

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