Butterwick

Note: The are an East Butterwick and a West Butterwick in Lincolnshire, also. The first is a township in Messingham parish, the second is a township in Owston parish, just south of Scunthorpe.

Census

• The parish was the heart of the Benington sub-district of the Boston Registration District.
  
  
• We have a handful of 1901 census surnames in a text file. Your additions are welcome.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
  
  
• Parts of the church are considered quite ancient, but it has been remodeled and rebuilt several times.
  
  
• The church seats about 220.
  
  
• Here are two photographs of St. Andrew's church. Both were taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1697.
  
  
• The LFHS has published several indexes for the Holland East Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The Wesleyans had a small chapel here, originally built in 1815 and enlarged in 1863. The Free (United) Methodists built their's in 1862. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Benington sub-district of the Boston Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Butterwick is both a village and a parish in Lincolnshire near the seashore, 4 miles east by north of Boston. It covers about 1,500 acres of low, well-drained Fenland.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A52 north and east out of Boston. It passes Butterwick after only about a mile.
  
  
• You may wish to use bus or train service or hire a car. See our Transport page for these options.
  
  
• See our touring page for visitor services.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 3844.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #261 map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Military Records

From the War Memorial, by John EMERSON (with additional notations):

Erected by the inhabitants of Butterwick to the Glory of God and in the memory of the men from this village who gave their lives in the Great War (1914-1918)

Notes:

1. Not found in Commonwealth War Grave Com. database.
2. Not enough info. to fully research. (Too many matches.)
3. In CWGC database as "John Roland Edwards".

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Skirbeck Wapentake in the Borough of Boston in the parts of Holland.
  
  
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT funded to provide support for family history searches.
  
  
• For today's district governance, visit the local Boston Borough Council.
  
  
• In 1880, a detached portion of this parish, with 95 inhabitants, was transfered to Leake.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Kirton and Skirbeck petty session hearings.
  
  
• The following individuals left the income from land for the poor of the parish: Edmund DOCKING, Peter PISHEY (in 1669), William PISHEY, Peter DOCKING, Simon CLARK (in 1603), Alexander HOLLAND (in 1694), Robert FARROW (in 1612), John HARLAND (in 1685), William SWIFT (in 1669), Simon GUY (in 1656) and John PINCHBECK. Most of the charity lands were exchanged over time for larger plots, particularly when the Fens were drained and open fields enclosed.
  
  
• The parish had four cttages, rebuilt in 1828, that were occupied rent-free by poor parishioners. These were given by Richard HILL in 1662.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Boston Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	229
1831	504
1871	619
1881	533
1891	473
1911	523

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Schools

• A Free School was founded here in 1665 by Anthony PINCHBECK, who endowed it with land in Freiston, Leverton, Friskney, Fishtoft and Butterwick parishes (about 122 acres in all). Students were allowed from surrounding parishes. Several building were built in 1878 to house the school, then called Pinchbeck's Endowed School for Boys. By 1913, both boys and girls were attending.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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