Byard's Leap, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Byard's Leap, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BAYARD LEAP, an extra-parochial tract  in Sleaford district, Lincoln; 5½ miles NW of Sleaford.

Byard's Leap is an extra parochial place and a small hamlet to the west of Cranwell, Lincolnshire and the Royal Air Force College there.

The Lands of Byard's Leap were part of the Knights Templar estate at Temple Bruer which was used both as a source of income and as a military training ground by the order.

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
Byard's Leap 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.

Link to the FamilySearch Cataloguw showing the film numbers in their collection for this extra parochial place

Poor Law Unions
Sleaford 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
Genuki Byards Leap