Great Casterton with Pickworth, Rutland Genealogy

Guide to Great Casterton with Pickworth, Rutland ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CASTERTON, GREAT (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Stamford, hundred of East, county of Rutland, 2¼ miles NW by W from Stamford.

Additional information:

The Victoria County History of Great Casterton (1935) is available. It includes a history of the manor, church, advowson, and charities.

The Victoria County History of Pickworth (1935) is also available. It includes a history of the manor, church, advowson, and charities.

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

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

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

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 Rutland 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