Forum: Lincolnshire county-wide forum

the Lincoln Family History Society have produced a web site with extracts from Lincolnshire newspaper, there's some marriages, and wedding anniversaries, and a great story of two women from Waddington, who had a boxing fight for the affection of a boy.... what a great story!!!!!! See it with this...

Hi Does anyone know where to find parish records for Burwell Lincolnshire? Or is anyone researching the name Blackwell in the same place? Thank You Zeb

I know I've asked this before but can't find the thread. FreeBMD has Marriages Dec 1889 DRAYTON William Fred Glanford B 7a 1365 But there are only 2 males and 1 female recorded. I have his wife as Mary Ann

Hi, Browsing the Thaxted, Essex PRs I came across the stray below. From the Essex Records Office online SEAX system, reference # D/P 16/1/3 image # 17. Thomas son of William and Jane Turner baptised 12 Jul 1724. "The place of settlement of ye above mentioned is at Wikingham in ye...

Don't panic - it's not forever! - just not enough space to add 'until 13 December 2011' in the heading. :smile5: You have till the end of September to rush and do any last-minute searching, though the Archives car park will be closed from Monday 5 September. Brief details, with a link to...

Any clues how to find Annie Smith in Maplethorpe in 1947/48 please? I've tried the phone books- no luck. She would have been an elderly lady by then. She had the odd lodger to generate a bit of extra income. How big would Maplethorpe have been in the late 40's. Thanks Janet (who's lost her...

Can anyone help? I have been informed that my 5th great grandparents came from Waddington before moving to Lancashire. The info I have is as follows: Richard BLACKBURN (born 1781 at Waddington) married Elizabeth STAPLES (born 1785 at Waddington) on 22nd October 1806 at Boultham. Can...

Can anyone help me to trace this address. St. Michaels Lane, Lincoln City. It was within the Parish of St. Michaels which I believe is within the location of the castles. My Great great Grandfather, Phillip Hooseman was employed as a Black Smith at number 22 St. Michaels Lane in the 1891 census,...

Is any one researching these families from 1800 Lincoln/ Scotton/ Aisthorpe and then into 1870's Beverley Yorkshire? Particularly Mary Tebb who married William Simpson and then George William Simpson: christened her son by her second husband Robert Emmingham Simpson b1878. Her marriage witness to...

I am trying to find the parents and ancestry of my 2nd. great grandfather, John Jenkinson (AKA Jinkinson) who according to the 1841 and 1851 censuses was born abt. 1800 or 1801at Nocton Lincolnshire, In 1827 he married Mary Staples at Thorney in Nottinghamshire and then went to live in Saxilby...

Could someone kindly look at the 1861 census for me Ref RG9 1255 30 17. Address - Yard, Pilot Street, St Margaret, Kings Lynn. The first name on the page is John Bailey my 2 x gt grandfather but I am unable to identify where he was born. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi all, I am trying to locate the houses in Tealby where my great Grand parents lived. Within the census returns they lived in prospect Street but I recall seeing something that indicated to me that it has been renamed Front Street. Can anyone confirm this for me. My Greatgrand father was...

Hi I am looking William Creasey b about 1758 maybe in Sibsey. He married Ann? and had 2 children Joseph b 1783 Sibsey d 1856 Friskney and Nancy b c 1788 (Chr 1 Jan 1788 Sibsey) bur 18 Jan 1788 Sibsey, ann bur 15 Jan 1788 Sibsey. William then married Hannah/Anna Carr 22 May 1794 Boston and had 5...

Hi, I am trying to find more info on this couple. I know they married 18 Mar 1849 St.Mary Nottingham, Louisa is 13 Mar 1826 Grantham her father is Charles mother Eliza? I am interested in finding out more on this family also. Thank you Diane NH USA

The only reference I can find to my 3g-grandmother, Sarah Pughsbee, is to her marriage to Joseph Cook in Metheringham Lincs. on 12/10/1824, no other Pughsbee seems to exist. I have tried variations to no avail, even a google search for Pughsbee yields no results! Anyone heard the name, or have any...

The Nag’s Head, Great Hale, Lincolnshire I have recently been given some information that my 3 x Great Grandfather Anthony Creasey Taylor may have been the owner of the above inn for a period of time in the later 1840’s or 50’s. I understand that before this ‘purchase’, the Inn belonged to his...