Bitchfield, Lincolnshire Genealogy
Guide to Bitchfield, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Bitchfield, Lincolnshire | |
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St+Mary+Magdalene Bitchfield Lincolnshire | |
Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Beltisloe |
County | Lincolnshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Grantham |
Registration District | Grantham |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1574 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1561 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Beltisloe |
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]
BITCHFIELD (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Grantham, wapentake of Beltisloe, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 3¼ miles (N. by W.) from Corby, and 8 (S. E. by S.) from Grantham. It is an ancient parish which nowadays forms part of the Beltisloe group of parishes in the civil parish of Bitchfield Bassingthorpe and Westby.[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]
Bitchfield parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Bitchfield Online Parish Records | ||||||
Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FS PRs | 1538-1990 | 1538-1990 | 1538-1990 | |||
FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
FREG | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
FMP | 1538-1911 | 1537-1911 | 1537-1970 | |||
FMP Banns | 1647-1911 | |||||
FMP Marr Index | 1700-1837 | |||||
FMP Marr | 1628-1837 | |||||
JOIN | 1813-1835 | |||||
NBI | 1754-2002 | |||||
IGI | ||||||
FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
FS Catalog BTs |
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Lincolnshire Archives.
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 effforts to provide an online catalogue.
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 Bitchfield Par 1 will identify available images.
Search FamilySearch Catalogue Bitchfield
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]
Grantham 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://genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Bitchfield/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 267-270. Date accessed: 09 August 2013.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk