Aswarby with Swarby, Lincolnshire Genealogy
England 
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Parishes
Guide to Aswarby with Swarby, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Aswarby with Swarby, Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Aswarby St Denis Lincolnshire | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Aswardhurn |
| County | Lincolnshire |
| Poor Law Union | Sleaford |
| Registration District | Sleaford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1713; Separate registers exist for Swarby beginning 1754 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1561; Separate records exist for Swarby beginning 1562 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Aswardhurn with Lafford |
| Diocese | Lincoln |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Lincolnshire Record Office | |
Parish History
Aswarby (pronounced locally as "as-r-bee") St Denis is the ecclesiastical parish formed in 1850 from the two Ancient Parishes of Asarby and Swarby. The civil parish of Asarby and Swarby also includes Crofton.
The Church of St Denis was restored in 1840-1850
The parish should not be confused with Aswardby, Lincolnshire ASWARBY (St. Denis), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Aswardhurn, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Folkingham. [1]
Resources
Civil Registration
This parish is in the eponymous Aswarby sub-district of Sleaford registration district.
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records
Material deposited at Lincolnshire Archives,
St Rumbold Street
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN2 5AB
England
Enquiries: lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk The website enables you to view a PDF file for all records held for each parish as part of continuing efforts to provide an online catalogue.
Aswarby parish registers date from 1715 but Bishop's transcripts from 1561.
The digitisation of parish records for the county now offers images via the Lincs to the past website (July 2011). Use advanced search terms at Search Lincs to the past to search for available images for parish registers and other records for this parish with images. Advance search terms Aswarby Par 1 will identify available images.
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Aswarby with Swarby
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Poor Law Unions
Sleaford Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lincolnshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Aswarby/
References
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 108-112. Date accessed: 07 August 2013.