Cawkwell, Lincolnshire Genealogy
Guide to Cawkwell, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Cawkwell, Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Gartree |
| County | Lincolnshire |
| Poor Law Union | Horncastle |
| Registration District | Horncastle |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1683 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1561 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Gartree |
| Diocese | Lincoln |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Lincolnshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CAWKWELL or Calkwell (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, N. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Louth. [1]
Cawkwell St Peter is an Ancient Parish in Lincolnshire.
The parish church is documented as still standing in 1872 but subsequently was lost, material was used in the restoration of Scamblesby, Lincolnshire.
Cawkwell is a hamlet and former civil parish about six miles south east of Louth in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire.
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]
Cawkwell parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Cawkwell 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 | 1538-1837 | |||||
| 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.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. 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]
Horncastle Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 538-542.Date accessed: 12 August 2013.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
