Deeping St James Lincolnshire Family History Guide
Deeping St James is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lincolnshire.
Other places in the parish include: Frognal.
Alternative names: East Deeping, St James Deeping
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1674
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1562
Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Deeping Fen
- Northborough Northamptonshire
- Newborough Northamptonshire
- Market Deeping
- Langtoft
- Crowland
- West Deeping
- Maxey Northamptonshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DEEPING-ST. JAMES, a parish in Bourn district, Lincoln; on the river Welland, at the boundary with Northampton, 1¾ mile from the Peterborough and Boston railway, and 1 mile E of Market-Deeping. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Market-Deeping.
Acres, 6, 470. Real property, £10, 741. Pop., 1, 763. Houses, 411. The property is much subdivided. A Benedictine priory was founded here, in 1139, by Baldwin Wake; was given to Thorney abbey; and passed, at the dissolution, to the Norfolks. There is a mineral spring.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £191. Patron, Sir T. Whichcote, Bart. The church is of the time of Henry III.; has a lofty tower and octangular spire; and was recently repaired.
There are a Calvinist chapel, two Methodist chapels, an endowed school, and charities £211.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Lincolnshire
- Civil Registration District: Bourne
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Ness
- Poor Law Union: Bourne
- Hundred: Ness
- Province: Canterbury