Quarrington, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire



Parish History
Quarrington St Botolph is an Ancient Parish built of local Ancaster stone. The present church replaces the church mentioned in the Domesday survey and was restored in 1887.

There were two churches in this parish; that of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire merged to form the Ecclesisatical parish after the demise of St Giles church in the seventeenth century. It was not until the 1888 reorganisation the Old Sleaford was joined in the civil parish

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
Material deposited at Lincolnshire Archives,

St Rumbold Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AB England

Enquiries: lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk The website enables you to view a PDF file for all records held for each parish as part of continuing efforts to provide an online catalogue.

This parish also incorporates the former ancient parish of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire St Giles which fell into disuse and ruin. The mediaeval church of All Saints preceded St Giles. Quarrington became the parish for the combined parish area upon the demise of St Giles in the 17th century.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Sleaford 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

Web sites
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