Pepper Gowt Plot, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Pepper Gowt, par., Lincolnshire, in Boston dist.

Additional Information:

The location is approximately that shown for Pepper Gowt in the Boston area enlargement on the 1888 Sanitary Districts Diagram for Lincolnshire. The name has not been located on a topographic map.

Pepper Gowt Plot (also known as Rowlands Marsh} was a tract of land gained by the straightening of the River Witham in the early 19th century. It lies about 2 miles north of the town of Boston, and just south of Antons Gowt. It was briefly a civil parish, between 1858 and 1906, when it was abolished to enlarge the parish of Skirbeck. Skirbeck parish was in turn abolished in 1932, and the area once known as Pepper Gowt Plot or Rowlands marsh, is simply known as Witham Marsh today, and falls within the parish of Fishtoft.

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
Pepper Gowt Plot 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.

Pepper Gowt Plot is an extra parochial place

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census Records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Boston 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