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Roxholme Road, Leasingham, Congregationalist |
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- During the Census, the parish was combined with Roxholme township (just to the north).
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 620 |
1851 | H.O. 107 / 2100 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2342 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3349 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2577 |
- The Anglican church of Saint John the Baptist in North Leasingham was pulled down in the 16th century. By 1841, no trace remained.
- The Anglican parish church of Saint Andrew appears to date from the 15th century or earlier. It was restored in 1863.
- St. Andrew seats 200.
- There is a photograph of St. John's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
- Here is a photo of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register, which includes Roxholme, dates from 1682.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1575 to 1813 and Marriages from 1576 to 1812.
- The Bishop's Transcripts start in 1562.
- Shelley CLACK provides a transcipt of the monuments in Leasingham churchyard in a Portable Document File to help with your search.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
- There was a chapel here for the Wesleyan Reformed Methodists. The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in Roxholm. For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
- There was a chapel in Roxholme for Congregationalists, built in 1871.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Leasingham is a both a parish and a village just north-north-west of Sleaford. Ruskington parish lies to the north-east. The parish is just under 3,000 acres and includes the hamlet of Roxholm (Roxholme).
If you are planning a visit:
- By car, take the A15 trunk road north out of Sleaford for about two miles.
- You should check out the Village Hall as photographed by David HURN on Geo-graph in 2007. Stop in and check the schedule of current events.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Leasingham to another place.
- Roxholm Hall is a modern mansion of brick and stone. In 1891, it was the residence and property of John Albert COLE.
- In 1911, Roxholm Hall was the residence and property of Mrs. BOURN.
- There is an Old Hall mentioned in published directories, but no history was provided.
- See our "Maps" page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF056488 (Lat/Lon: 53.025677, -0.427265), Leasingham 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.
Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken on a December day in 2009.
John EMERSON, who retains the copyright, provides these photographs of the war memorial at Leasingham:
John EMERSON also supplies this list of names off of the memorial:
To the glory of God and in memory of those men from this parish who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914-1918
Rank | Name | Unit | Died | Notes |
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Cpl | C. BANKS | Dragoons | 18-Nov-1919 | |
Lc Cp | C. N. STANYON | N Lincs | 13-Oct-1919 | |
Pte | E. THORPE | York & Lancs | 31-Aug-1919 | |
Pte | A. SIMPSON | ??? | 4-Nov-1919 | |
??? | H. BELLAMY | Lancs | 25-May-1917 | |
Dvr | R. LOVE | R. E. A. | 6-July-1917 | |
Lt. Col. | C. M. WATERLOW | Ryl Eng | 20-July-1917 | |
Pte | W. ANDREWS | W. Yorks | 3-Dec-1917 | |
Dvr | W. DICKINSON | 11-Jul-1918 | ||
Pte | G. LEFFLEY | 2-Sept-1918 | ||
Svc | S. SIMPSON | 20-Oct-1918 | ||
Pte | S. SIMPSON | 13-May-1919 | ||
1939-1945 | ||||
George R. WOODS | 28-Sept-1941 | |||
John E. WOODS | 19-Oct-1943 | |||
Cyril DODSWORTH | ||||
Lc Cpl | Charled E. TUCKER | 12-Dec-1944 | ||
Roger CALE | ||||
John HEPPELL | 22-Oct-1943 | |||
Albert BOURNER | 07-Jan-1942 |
- Leasingham became a modern Civil Parish in late 1726.
- Leasingham civil and eclessiastical parishes are the consolidation of the two parishes of South Leasingham and North Leasingham (also called "Roxholme").
- The parish was in the ancient Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
- You may contact the local Leasingham Parish Council regarding civic or political issues. Be aware that they will not assist with family history research.
- For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings every Monday.
- Leasingham Moor and the Common Lands were enclosed here in 1821.
- After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
- In 1876-84, the Bishop of Nottingham established alsmhouses here for poor widows.
- A Miss WELLS, a former resident of the parish, left the interest from £1,000, part of which was used to maintain a clothing club for widows and widowers.
Year Inhabitants 1801 264 1811 329 1841 472 1851 428 1871 390 1881 368 1891 340 1901 314 1911 319 1921 299 1931 367
- There was a Public Elementary School built here in 1849. The school was enlarged circa 1905 to hold 120 children.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.