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St Mary, Evedon, Church of England |
- The parish was in the Heckington sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- In 1891, after a district re-organization, this parish became part of the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
---|---|
1841 | H.O. 107 / 618 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2345 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3352 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2579 |
St Mary, Evedon, Church of England |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church was reduced in size in 1809 by taking down the north aisle.
- The church was restored in 1898.
- The church seats about 70 people.
- The church is kept locked, except for services.
- Here is a photo of St. Mary's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1729 to 1812 and Marriages from 1729 to 1812.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Heckington sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- In 1891, after a district re-organization, this parish became part of the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
Evedon is both a village and a parish, just 2 miles east of Sleaford. Kirkby la Thorpe parish is just to the south. The parish is on a rise above the River Slea and covers just over 1,300 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A17 trunk road east out of Sleaford and turn north at Kirkby la Thorpe.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Evedon to another place.
- See our "Maps" page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF098476 (Lat/Lon: 53.014009, -0.364695), Evedon which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Aswardhurn Wapentake in the North Kesteven division in the parts of Kesteven.
- The parish was moved to the Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven district around 1835.
- In April, 1931, this Civil Parish was abolished and amalgamated into the new Ewerby and Evedon Civil Parish.
- For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
- In 1840, the parish was entitled to send children to Sleaford Grammar School. Two children were allowed to go to Ewerby parish school.
- Later, the children of this parish attended schools in Ewerby and Kirkby-la-Thorpe.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.