Spalding St Mary & St Nicholas, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Spalding St Mary &amp; St Nicholas, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SPALDING (St. Mary and St. Nicholas), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, 44 miles (S. E. by S.) from Lincoln, and 100 (N.) from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans.

Spalding St Mary and St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish and a market town; the chapelry of Cowbit, Lincolnshire was formed from this parish.

Other places in the parish include: Fulney, Little London, Low Fulney, Wykeham or Wickham, Windsover or Winsover, and Spalding Common.

The church was built around 1284 and was built as a parish church by the Prior of the Benedictine priory found two centuries earlier.

In 1874 the ecclesiastical parish of Spalding St John, Lincolnshire was created from this parish.

In 1876 St Peter's church was built and formed a further ecclesiastical parish.

In 1880 the ecclesiastical parish of Fulney St Paul was created from this parish.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Spalding sub-district of Spalding registration district Search registration district

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
Spalding St Mary & St Nicholas 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.

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Spalding 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/Spalding/