Hackthorn, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
"Hackthorn St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish;the church mentioned in the Domesday survey was demolished and rebuilt using the original stonework in 1805. It lies ajacent to Hackthorn Lake and Hall and contains private gallery seating for the owners of the Hall.

The ruined mediaeval village lies some way away across fields. The church is open to visitors as part of the Heritage Lottery funded diocesan "Cascade" scheme for tourism.

The church contains an 1869 Nicholson organ recognised as of national importance which is now converted to electric air pump but which retains the original hand pump and leather bellows. The organ is used for worship and recitals. For a small congregation the installation of such an organ is unusual.

The church also contains a roll of honour folder situated at the rear to commemorate those of the village in both World Wars and for visiting family historians a copy of the Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard surrounding the church. Summer visitors may encounter difficulty in reading inscriptions in the western part of the graveyard due to growth of vegetation, the graves at the entrance are maintained.

The village is small and somewhat isolated, there is a field dedicated to parking a short walk from the church and village hall and adjacent to the lake.

HACKTHORN (St. Michael), a parish, in the E. division of the wapentake of Aslacoe, parts of Lindsey, union and county of Lincoln, 8 miles (N. by E.) from Lincoln."

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Civil Registration
This parish is in the North East sub-district of the Lincoln 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
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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)

Census Records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Lincoln 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/Hackthorne/