Scredington, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Scredington, Lincolnshirefamily history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SCREDINGTON (St. Andrew), a parish in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Aswardhurn, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 4¼ miles (S. E. by S.) from Sleaford. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Screditon St Andrew is an Ancient Parish which includes Hambledon, Northbeck and Highgate within the parish boundary.

The church was built in the fifteenth century and resored in 1869 and is a Grade II listed building by English Heritage. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel dates from 1875.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Aswarby sub-District of Sleaford Registration District but in 1891 re-organisation transferred to Leadenham sub-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
Scredington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Lincolnshire Archives.

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

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