Caythorpe, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire   Lincolnshire Parishes



Parish History
"CAYTHORPE (St. Vincent), a parish, in the union of Newark, wapentake of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 9 miles (N. by E.) from Grantham; containing, with the hamlet of Friston, 821 inhabitants. There are a chapel of ease at Friston, and a place of worship for Wesleyans."

The Ancient Parish church of Caythorpe St Vincent dates from the 14th century and has a highly unusual dedicatory name. Following a lightning strike in 1859 when the original tower collapsed into the chancel the church was restored in 1861.

The Hussey family who owned Caythorpe Hall are memorialised within the church.

The parish also includes Friston(sometimes Frieston).

This parish should not be confused with Claythorpe, Lincolnshire or Lowdham with Gunthorpe and Caythorpe, Nottinghamshire parishes

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.

This parish was from 1837 within Newark registration district Following re-organisation of local government historical registration was transferred to Lincolnshire Certificates can be obtained from: Lincolnshire Certificate Applications PO Box 760 Lincoln LN2 5WG Phone: 01522 782244 Email: regist@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Church records
Material deposited at Lincolnshire Archives,

St Rumbold Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AB England

Enquiries: lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk The website enables you to view a PDF file for all records held for each parish as part of continuing efforts to provide an online catalogue.

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 Caythorpe Par 1 will identify available images.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Newark Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

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.

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