Brauncewell with Dunsby, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Brauncewell with Dunsby, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Brauncewell All Saints is a 13th century church and a listed building which includes a 10th century Saxon grave cover.

The ecclesisatical parish was formed in 1718 when the two Ancient parishes of Brauncewell and Dunsby were united. The parish includes the remains of the deserted mediaeval villages of Brauncewell (to the west of the modern village) and Dunsby to the east and south of the modern Brauncewell.

BRAUNCEWELL (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 4¾ miles (N. N. W.) from Sleaford. The parish is situated on the road from London to Lincoln; and, including the hamlet of Dunsby."

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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Church Records
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Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lincolnshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lincolnshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Brauncewell/