Alvingham, Lincolnshire Family History Guide

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Alvingham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lincolnshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1561

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

  • Conisholme
  • North Cockerington
  • Fotherby and Brackenborough
  • Keddington
  • Yarburgh
  • Grainthorpe

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALVINGHAM, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; on the Louth canal, 3¼ miles NE of Louth r. station. Post town, Louth. Acres, 1,940. Real property, £2,802. Pop., 350. Houses, 74. The property is much subdivided.

A Gilbertine priory stood here, dedicated to the Virgin and St. Adelwold; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Clintons.

The living is a vicarage, united with Cockerington, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £170. Patron, the Bishop of L. The church is ancient.

There are three Methodist chapels.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lincolnshire, Alvingham – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Alvingham, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lincolnshire, Alvingham – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Alvingham, 1561-1845
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Alvingham (Lincolnshire)

Marriage transcripts, 1584-1836
Author:    Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Alvingham)

Parish register extracts for the parish church of Alvingham (Lincoln), 1582-1749
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Alvingham (Lincolnshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1538-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Alvingham (Lincolnshire)

Parish registers for Alvingham, 1583-1978
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Alvingham (Lincolnshire)

England, Lincolnshire, Alvingham – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Alvingham, Lincoln, England

Louthesk Deanery : baptisms & burials index 1754-1812
Author:    Lincolnshire Family History Society

England, Lincolnshire, Alvingham – History ( 1 )
Remembrance of things past : sixty years ago in a Lincolnshire village
Author:    Childs, W. M. (William MacBride), 1869-1939

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Lincolnshire
  • Civil Registration District: Louth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Louthesk and Ludborough
  • Poor Law Union: Louth
  • Hundred: Louth Esk Hundred
  • Province: Canterbury