Denton, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes

Parish History
Denton St Andrew is an Ancient Parish and part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbouring parishes of Harston, Leicestershire and Croxton Kerrial, Leicestershire

The village occupies the site of a Roman settlement and local archaeology suggests that it was a site of Beaker culture in the neolithic history of occupation in the county. The village name derives from the Old English dene+tun, meaning "village in a valley," but in Domesday it is written as "Dentune".

"DENTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Grantham, wapentake of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Grantham; containing 626 inhabitants."

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 effforts 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 Denton Par 1 will identify available images.

Search Family History Catalogue

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Grantham 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
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