Stamford Baron St Martin, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Stamford Baron St Martin, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MARTIN'S, ST., Stamford-Baron, a parish, in the borough and union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, ½ a mile (S. E.) from Stamford. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style, erected by a bishop of Lincoln in the fifteenth century.

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
Stamford St Martin or Stamford Baron is in the county of Northamptonshire and the Diocese of Peterborough, although it is located within the Borough of Stamford. The parish records are therefore deposited at Northamptonshire Record Office.

Lincolnshire Archives has purchased microfiche copies of the parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for Stamford St Martin covering the following dates: Baptisms 1572-1902 Marriages 1582-1957 Burials 1572-1860 These microfiche are kept in the 'Miscellaneous Fiche' cabinet in the Search Room, together with a detailed list of the microfiche.

Lincolnshire Archives, St Rumbold Street,Lincoln,Lincolnshire,LN2 5AB,England Enquiries: lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Stamford Baron (St. Martins) Baptisms 1572-1902 Marriages1572-1957 Burials 1572-1860 are deposited registers at Northampton Records Office, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton,NN4 8BQ Sarah Bridges, County Archivist and Heritage Services Manager: archivist@northamptonshire.gov.uk

 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Stamford 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
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Stamford/