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Family History

Our Parish Registers and Birth, Marriage and Death certificates can help solve mysteries or delve further back into family trees.

Parish Registers

Our collection of baptisms, marriages and burials cover the deaneries of Bolingbroke, Calcewaithe and Candleshoe, Corringham, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Haverstoe, Horncastle, Lawres, Louthesk, Manlake, Westwold and Yarborough.

Memorial inscriptions and burial registers are available for Scartho Road, Ainslie Street/Doughty Road, and Cleethorpes Cemeteries. For Scartho Road and Cleethorpes Cemeteries there are maps and keys for how to find a specific plot.

A local Grimsby and Cleethorpes marriage database is also searchable via the Family History computer.

Electoral Registers

Electoral Registers show any and all eligible to vote. For the Grimsby constituency, registers span from 1901 through to present day. For the Cleethorpes constituency, registers span 1918 through to the present day. Whilst the current year’s electoral register is available to view upon request, the electoral registers between 2013 to 2021 (inclusive) are closed records and unavailable.

The 1918 Absent Voters Electoral Roll is very useful – as with all other electoral registers it lists all those who are eligible to vote at each address, but this list also gives the Service, Ship, Regiment Number, Rank, Rating etc. of those away at War. This information can then be used to unlock finding military records.

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Grimsby, Ainslie Street Cemetery Burial Registers 1855-1943 [8/1] (Indexed)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Grimsby, Scartho Road Cemetery Burial Registers, 1889-1970 [8/7/] (Indexed)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Grimsby Cremation Registers 1954-1992 [8/10]

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Cleethorpes Beacon Avenue Cemetery Burial Registers 1877-1954 [59/22]

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Burial registers for some parish cemeteries.

Archives And Local History

Parish Registers (Microfiche)

A collection of baptisms, marriages and burials covering the deaneries of Bolingbroke, Calcewaithe and Candleshoe, Corringham, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Haverstoe, Horncastle, Lawres, Louthesk, Manlake, Westwold and Yarborough.

Parish Registers of Scarthoe (Scartho) 1562-1837 by Rev E C Crake.  Photocopy. [1160/11].

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Landed Estates and Families

Including Parkinson of East Ravendale, Sheffield of Normanby Hall and Winn of Nostell Priory.

North East Lincolnshire Archives

Many other personal papers deposited (indexed)

Archives And Local History

Census Information

The census has been conducted every ten years since 1801 (except for 1941). After one hundred years the forms themselves are made publicly available. The early census returns contain very basic information but more details were included from 1841 onwards including occupations of the householders, ages and place of birth.

Lincs Inspire Libraries subscribe to www.ancestrylibrary.com. You can use this site free of charge at Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham and Waltham branches to access the 1841 – 1911 census returns for England and Wales. You can also use your own device to access, whilst connected to Lincs Inspire Libraries Wi-Fi.

Archives And Local History

Electoral Registers

Cleethorpes 1918 – Date
Grimsby 1901 – Date

Earlier Electoral Registers for Grimsby are available on microfilm 1863 – 1900.

Grimsby Local History Library

General Register Office indexes (GRO)

Indexes to births, marriages and deaths registered in England and Wales from 1837 – 2004 are held on microfiche. The ‘Overseas Series’ include Births, Marriages and Deaths at sea or abroad.

Grimsby Local History Library

Marriage Indexes

1754 – 1837. These are arranged within Deaneries, alphabetically by surname and show the date and place of marriage and maiden name.

Gallery

Harry Cross

Harry Cross

Harry Cross of Cleethorpes with his wife, Florrie, and daughter, Olive. c1917
Edna Moulds

Edna Moulds

Photograph captioned “Taken at a wedding of a girl at work”, 1940s. The woman on the right of the picture is Edna Moulds (born in Grimsby on 26th October 1920).
All Saints-men On Active Service

All Saints-men on active service

All Saints-men on active service

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