Leasingham
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- During the Census, the parish was combined with Roxholme parish (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. |
| 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 Roxholm was pulled down in the 16th century.
- The Anglican parish church of Saint Andrew appears to date from the 15th century or earlier. It was restored in 1863.
- St. Andrew seats about 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 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-northwest of Sleaford. Ruskington parish lies to the northeast. 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 2 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.
- Check out our touring page for resources.
- 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.
- The national grid reference is TF 0548.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #272 map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
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 |
| 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 |
- Locals pronounce the name as "Lezingham". [Simon MEEDS, 2001]
- 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 district 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.
Last updated on 26-November-2015
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