Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire Family History Guide

Old Sleaford is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Lincolnshire.

Alternative names:

• Lafford
• Lafford cum Haldingham
• Old Sleaford

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: None
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Calvinist, and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

• Evedon
• Kirkby Laythorpe with Asgarby
• Quarrington
• New Sleaford
• Silk Willoughby
• Burton Penwardine

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SLEAFORD, a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district, in Lincolnshire.

The town stands on the river Slea, and on the Grantham and Boston railway, near a branch of Ermine-street, 18 miles SSE of Lincoln.

It is supposed, by some antiquaries, to occupy the site of a Roman town; had a palatial castle of the Bishops of Lincoln, in which King John sickened after his losses at the Wash, and which is now represented by only a fragment of wall; had also a house of Lord Hussey, who was beheaded for high treason; gave lodging for a night to Henry VIII., when on his way to York to meet the king of Scotland

It is now a seat of quarter-sessions, petty-sessions, and county courts, and a polling place; publishes a weekly newspaper.

It consists chiefly of four good streets, crossing at right angles; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, three chief inns, a modern town hall in the pointed style, a police station, a corn exchange, a monument of 1850 in form of an Eleanor cross to H. Handley, Esq., a fine church of 1271, restored in 1854, a handsome Wesleyan chapel of 1848, three other dissenting chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £80 a year, an endowed national school with £106, an alms-house hospital for 24 men with £950, other charities £60, and a workhouse with accommodation for 265 inmates. A weekly market is held on Monday; and fairs on Plough-Monday, Easter Monday, Whit-Monday, 12 Aug., and 1 and 20 Oct.

The town’s limits include New S. township, Old S. parish, and part of Quarrington parish. Pop. in 1861, 3,745. Houses, 800.

New S. parish consists of New S. township and Holdingham hamlet, and comprises 3,160 acres. Real property, £12,166; of which £1,280 are in the Slea canal, and £350 in gasworks. Pop., 3,467. Houses, 732. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Bristol.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £216. Patron, the Rev. R. Yerburgh. Old S. parish comprises 1,150 acres. Real property, £2,155. Pop., 372. Houses, 86. The living is a vicarage. Value, not reported. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. There is no church.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Lincolnshire, Old Sleaford – Church records ( 1 )
Births and baptisms, 1814-1840
Author:    Providence Chapel (Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire : Independent)

England, Lincolnshire, Old Sleaford – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Old Sleaford, Lincs., Eng

Parish register printouts of Old Sleaford, Lincoln, England ; christenings, 1561-1776
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

Sleaford-Map-1891-Simplified.svg – Wikimedia Commons

Administration

• County: Lincolnshire
• Civil Registration District: Sleaford
• Probate Court: Pre-1834 – Court of the Peculiar of the Prebendal of Sleaford, Post-1833 – Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Lincoln
• Rural Deanery: Aswardhurn with Lafford
• Poor Law Union: Sleaford
• Hundred: Aswardhurn
• Province: Canterbury