Southorpe, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes

Parish History
The lost mediaeval village of Southorpe is now a small hamlet and civil parish but is an extra parochial place in ecclesiastical terms.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Southorpe like this:

SOUTHORPE, an extra-parochial township in Gainsborough district, Lincoln; 7 miles NE of Gainsborough. Acres, 590. Pop., 44. Houses, 7.

In 1994 Heritage Lincolnshire published "The Deserted medieval village of Southorpe"

SOUTHORPE, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Gainsborough, wapentake of Corringham, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 7 miles (N. E.) from Gainsborough.

Civil Registration
This place was in the Scotter sub=district of Gainsborough 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
Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Southorpe is an extra parochial place

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Gainsborough 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