Toynton St. Peter
- We have a page of surname entries in our Toynton St, Peter 1901 surname extract file. Your additions are welcome.
- The parish was in the Spilsby sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- 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 / 647 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2109 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2374 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3391 & 3393A |
| 1901 |
R.G. 13 / 3075 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter.
- The church was restored in 1876-77.
- The church seats 220.
- There is a photograph of St. Peter's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site under "more Lincolnshire".
- Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1742.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Lincolnshire Archives hold: bapt. 1742-1926; Mar. 1742-1812; Bur. 1742-1837; BTs 1562-1837.
- There was a chapel for Wesleyan Methodists erected in 1844 in the parish. Out on the Fen, the Primitive methodists also had a chapel and day school. For more on researching these chapel records, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Spilsby sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Toynton St. Peter is a village and a parish 2 miles south of Spilsby and east-south-east of Horncastle. Toynton All Saints parish lies to the west and Halton Holgate parish to the east. The parish covers about 1,600 acres.
The village lies just over a mile south of Spilsby. If you are considering a visit to the parish:
- By automobile, take the A16 trunk road south out of Spilsby or north out of Stickford.
- See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
- The national grid reference is TF 4063.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
For a photograph of the Toynton Saint Peter Rolls of Honour and the list of names on them, see the Roll of Honour site.
- The parish was in the Eastern division of the ancient Bolingbroke Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- The parish was also in the Bolingbroke Soke.
- The parish had a fen allotment, but that was transferred to the new parish at Wildmore.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey division of the county, as does the 1913 version.
- You may contact the local Parish Council about civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to answer family history questions.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spilsby petty session hearings held every other Monday.
- Various charities earned £5 and 16 shillings per year (1900), derived from garden allotments, for the poor.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
245 |
| 1831 |
372 |
| 1841 |
439 |
| 1871 |
342 |
| 1881 |
333 |
| 1891 |
262 |
| 1911 |
196 |
Last updated on 17-April-2015
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