Society of Genealogists - England: Lincolnshire Resources

Lincolnshire

Shelf Mark: LI

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-B | C-F | G-K | L-R | S | T-Z

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Lincolnshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2001 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop

National index of parish registers, vol. 6, part 4: Lincolnshire. London: SoG, 1995. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Sources for genealogy 1: deposited parish registers & bishops' transcripts, & 2: peculiar jurisdictions (Lincoln diocese), bishops, & dean & chapter transcripts [Lincolnshire Archives]: Lincolnshire tracts, vol. 2 [LI/G 1A]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at Familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

Genealogical sources Church of England parish registers, banns books, bishops' transcripts, denominational registers index 1801-58: Lincolnshire archives CD-Rom indexes, genealogical resources & Foster library catalogue v2.02 [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet]

Index to Phillimore's parish register series - Lincolnshire, vol. 1-6: Phillimore's parish register index series, vol. 2 - Lincolnshire, vol. 1 [Store A (LI/REG)]

Marriage index of Lincolnshire 1600-99 & 1700-53 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Marriage index of Lincolnshire 1754-1812 [LI/R 70-74]

Marriage index of Lincolnshire : 1813-37 [LI/R 64-65 & 67-68]

Lincolnshire strays 1998 [Microfiche.] [LI/GEN/91944/1-2]

Lincolnshire strays index vols. 1-6 & collection 13 [collections 1-13] [Microfiche.] [LI/GEN/78333/1-7 & LI/GEN/91528/1-7]

Strays from other county records relating to Lincolnshire, 2nd collection, October 1981: Lincolnshire registers, vol. 4 [Typescript.] [LI/R 78]

Obituary & records for the counties of Lincoln, Rutland & Northampton 1800-59 [LI/G 9] & [Microfiche.] [LI/REG/86581/1-2]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Lincolnshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1632-1837 & 1659-68, M 1657-1836 & 1659-68, B 1656-1837 & 1661-72 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3373]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1632-1837, M 1659-1837, B 1651-1837 (includes North Scarle, Eagle, Haxey, Haverholme & Swinderby, Lincs.) [Microfilm.] [Mf 3381]

Quaker marriages in Lincolnshire 1657-1853 [Microfiche.] [LI/REG/78607/1a]

Roman Catholic marriages in Lincolnshire 1657-1853 [Microfiche.] [LI/REG/78607/1]

Marriage licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshopSoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Leicestershire Marriage Licences 1570-1729 - indexes to British Record Society, vol. 38 [Photocopy.] [LE/R 98]

Lincoln marriage licences: an abstract of the allegation books in the Registry of the Bishop of Lincoln, 1598-1628 [LI/R 69]

Lincolnshire marriage bonds & allegations 1628-99 [index & abstracts] [Microfiche.] [ML/LIN/90937/1-6]

Lincolnshire marriage bonds & allegations 1700-53, 1754-73 & 1774-1800 [indexes only] [Microfiche.] [ML/LIN/95282/1-4], [ML/LIN/106954/1-3] & [ML/LIN/120119/1-6]

Lincolnshire references in Nottinghamshire marriage licences 1577-1853 [Microfiche.] [LI/REG/86582/1-2]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Air Force memorials of Lincolnshire. 4th edn. [LI/M 61]

Headstones in Lincolnshire [lists of stonemasons] part 2 [Lincolnshire tracts box]

War graves index nos. 1 & 2: Belgium 1914-19 [The register of the names of members of those who fell in the Great War, of the Lincolnshire Regiment & Lincolnshire soldiers of other regiments & who are buried in Belgium] [Microfiche.] [LI/MI/88151/1] & [LI/MI/100553/1]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Grantham 1831 census

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

LINCOLNSHIRE - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

LINCOLNSHIRE - DIRECTORIES

or LINCOLNSHIRE - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives: Documents on-line

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

LINCOLNSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-B

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue