Amcotts, Lincolnshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
AMCOTTS, a chapelry, in the parish of Althorp, union of Thorne, W. division of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 11¾ miles (E. S. E.) from Glandford-Brigg. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Amcotts St Mark was formed as an Ecclsiastical parish in 1850 from a chapelry in Althorpe with Keadby, Lincolnshire Ancient Parish.

Amcotts is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire which is on the River Trent and faces Flixborough, Lincolnshire. The chapel is dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
This parish was part of the Thorne registration district from 1837-1947 when it became part of the Don Valley registration district. registration district

Registers are now held at North Lincolnshire The Register Office 92 Oswald Road Scunthorpe DN15 7PA 01724 843915. registrars@northlincs.gov.uk

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
Amcotts 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.

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 Amcotts Par 1 will identify available images.

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

Census records
Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Thorne Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

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
Amcotts Genuki