Horsington, Lincolnshire Genealogy
Guide to Horsington, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Horsington, Lincolnshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Gartree |
County | Lincolnshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Horncastle |
Registration District | Horncastle |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1561 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Gartree |
Diocese | Lincoln |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Lincolnshire Archives | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
HORSINGTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 4¾ miles (W.) from Horncastle. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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 Horsington Par 1 will identify available images.
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Horsington
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Horncastle Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire Genealogy
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Horsington/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 553-557. Date accessed: 24 August 2013.