Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire



Parish History
Gedney Hill is a civil parish and the ecclesiasticl parish was formed originally from a chapelry of neighbouring mother parish Gedney, Lincolnshire. Part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire

Gedney Hill is also known as Fen End locally and the Old South Eau Drain canal forms the county boundary.

The Church of Holy Trinity formed a separate ecclesiasatical parish in the sixteenth century; Bishop's Transcripts date from 1563 parish registers from 1693.

A General Baptist chapel was built at Gedney Hill in 1883.

Civil Registration
This parish was part of Holbeach sub-district in Holbeach 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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Census records
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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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