Bourne, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire



Parish History
Bourne is an Ancient Parish and a market town; the ecclesiastical parish of Bourne is part of the Beltisloe Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln and is based at the Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, in Church Walk. Several other religious denominations are represented in the town, including the Methodist, Baptist and United Reformed churches, and the Roman catholic church..

Other places in the parish include: South Fens, Tongue End, Twenty, Austerby, North Bourne, Bourn South Fen, Cawthorpe, Dyke, Dyke Fen, and Bourn North Fen.

Bourne was built an an ancient Roman Road and is in the Fens, owing much to the drainage of the fenland to create the expanding town.

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 digitisation of parish records for the county now offers images via the Lincs to the past website (July 2011). Use advanced search terms at Search Lincs to the past to search for available images for parish registers and other records for this parish with images. Advance search terms Bourne Par 1 will identify available images.

Search Family History Library Catalogue

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Bourne 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

Web sites
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