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.

See A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 703-707.

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
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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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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