Butterwick, Lincolnshire Family History Guide

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Butterwick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lincolnshire.

Other places in the parish include: East Fen Allotment, East Fen, and Butterwick East Fen.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1697
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1561

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

  • Midville
  • Freiston
  • Leverton
  • Benington
  • Boston
  • Leake
  • Sibsey

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUTTERWICK, a parish in Boston district, Lincoln; on the coast, near Boston Deeps, 4¼ miles E of Boston r. station.

It includes an allotment in the East Fen; and has a post-office under Boston. Acres, 4,420; of which 3,050 are water. Real property, £4,660. Pop., 605. Houses, 120.

A large pond, which medical men declared to be highly pestiferous, was recently filled up and planted with vegetables.

The living is a vicarage annexed to the vicarage of Frieston, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church has an early English octagonal font, and a rood turret.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £289 a year, and charities £160.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Butterwick, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Butterwick, 1561-1838 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Butterwick (Lincolnshire)

Church records, 1598-1622 Author: Baptist Church (Lincolnshire)

Church records, 1673-1813 Author: Baptist Church (Epworth, Lincolnshire)

Parish register extracts for the parish church of Butterwick (Lincoln) Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Butterwick (Lincolnshire)

Parish registers for Butterwick, 1697-1876 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Butterwick (Lincolnshire)

Computer printout of Butterwick (Holland), Lincs., Eng

Parish register printouts of Butterwick, Lincoln, England (Holland) ; christenings, 1561-1812 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Butterwick, Lincoln, England ; christenings, 1813-1838 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Butterwick, Lincoln, England ; marriages, 1561-1837 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Messingham, Lincoln, England, christenings, 1599-1812 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Lincolnshire
  • Civil Registration District: Boston
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Holland
  • Poor Law Union: Boston
  • Hundred: Skirbeck
  • Province: Canterbury