Wyville with Hungerton, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire

Parish History
The Ecclesiastical Parish of  Wyville with Hungerton Wyville is a small hamlet, a collection of farm buildings and a 19th century church of St Catherine. A small rivulet runs to the south of the hamlet, toward the Cringle Stream at Stoke Rochford, an early tributary of the River Witham.

Hungerton is a small hamlet set about a half mile northwest of Wyville. Hungerton has been the population centre of the parish in recent centuries.

The modern parish is part of the Harlaxton, Lincolnshire groupin the Grantham Deanery of the diocese of Lincoln.

WYVILL, a parish, in the union of Grantham, wapentake of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 6 miles (N. W.) from Colsterworth; containing, with Hungerton, 137 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, with that of Hungerton united; net income, £35; patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is in ruins, and the inhabitants attend that at Harlaxton.

From A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 703-707. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51435 Date accessed: 20 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Grantham 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.

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Web sites
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