Spalding St Mary & St Nicholas, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire

Parish History
Spalding St Mary and St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish and a market town; the chapelry of  Cowbit, Lincolnshire was formed from this parish.

Other places in the parish include: Fulney, Little London, Low Fulney, Wykeham or Wickham, Windsover or Winsover, and Spalding Common.

The church was built around 1284 and was built as a parish church by the Prior of the Benedictine priory found two centuries earlier.

In 1874 the ecclesiastical parish of Spalding St John the Baptist was created from this parish.

In 1876 St Peter's church was built and formed a further ecclesiastical parish.

In 1880 the ecclesisatical parish of Fulney St Paul was created from this parish.

Spalding is famous for the drainage of fenland to form a rich soil which became the centre of flower bulb (and vegetable) growing. The Geest family and others formed close trade links with Holland and Spalding grew to be known as a Tulip growing area. The annual Tulip Parade is nationally famous. In recent years the tulip industry in the town and area has declined.

Civil Registration
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 Friends Meeting house in Double Street Spalding was built in 1805

The Roman Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception and St Norbert was built in Henrietta Street was built.

The Broad Street Methodist Chapel dates from 1887.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Spalding 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

Web sites
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