Sutton St Edmund, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SUTTON ST. EDMUND'S, a chapelry, in the parish of Long Sutton, union of Holbeach, wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, 10 miles (E. by N.) from Crowland. There are places of worship for Baptists and Primitive Methodists.

Sutton St Edmund is an Ecclesiastical Parish formed in 1744 from a chapelry in Sutton St Mary, Lincolnshire Ancient Parish; other places in the parish include: Sutton St Edmund Commons in Long Sutton.

The southern parish boundary forms part of the County boundary with Cambridgeshire; Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire are neighbouring parishes.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Long Sutton sub-district of Holbeach registration district but in 1890 re-organisation became part of the Gedney Hill 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
Sutton St Edmund 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
Holbeach 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/SuttonStEdmund/