Timberland, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire



Parish History
Timberland St Andrew is an Ancient Parish which included Martin, Martin by Lincoln, Thorpe Tilney, Martin near Kirkstead, Merton, and Martin Dales.

The village of Martin and Timberland Drove, Timberland Dales and Thorpe Tilney Dales are included in the boundary. See Martin by Timberland,Lincolnshire

Thorpe Tilney Hall was used for filming as Longbourn Hall in the 1980 BBC Serial Pride and Prejudice.

"TIMBERLAND (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, First division of the wapentake of Langoe, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 10 miles (N. N. E.) from Sleaford; containing, with the townships of Martin and Thorpe-Tilney, 1649 inhabitants, of whom 597 are in Timberland township. An act was passed in 1839, for the more effectual drainage of the fen and dales of Timberland. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £12. 2. 11.; net income, £216; patron and impropriator, Sir T. Whichcote, Bart. The tithes were commuted for land and annual money payments in 1774 and 1794. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans."

From: 'Tilney - Timworth', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 360-362. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51345 Date accessed: 04 May 2012.

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
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 Timberland Par 1 will identify available images.

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.

Registers begin in 1563

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Reference
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