Boultham
- The parish was in the Home ("Lincoln Home") sub-district of the Lincoln 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 / 615 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2104 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2358 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3369 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2589 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Helen.
- The church was originally built in the 13th century.
- The church was rebuilt in 1864.
- The churchyard was not added until 1868.
- The church seats about 110.
- The church has its own website with information on schedules and other resources.
- A Mission Church was built of iron at New Boultham in 1912. It seats about 150 and was dedicated to St. Matthew.
- The rapid growth of Boultham after the Great War meant that St.Helen's church became too small for the congregation and the new Church of Holy Cross opened in December 1940.
- Matthew SMITH has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.
- Here is a photo of St. Helen's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1716.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Home ("Lincoln Home") sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
This village and parish lie just south-west of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, across the River Witham. Skellingthorpe parish is to the north-west. The parish covers about 1,300 acres of low, well-drained marshland.
The village of Boultham is a suburb of the city of Lincoln. If you are planning a visit:
- Boultham Hall was the manor house here and the seat of Richard ELLISON in 1840. It is a large red brick and stone building.
- The Hall was occupied by Major Richard G. ELLISON in 1881.
- The Hall was unoccupied in 1913.
- The national grid reference is SK 9568.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer 272" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Crimean Memorial in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
- Boultham Hall was used as a military hospital in World War One.
- A photograph of that Sebastopol Memorial is at the Flickr website.
- There is a photograph of the Boultham War Memorial at the Traces of War website.
- And another photograph of the Boultham War Memorial at the Flickriver website.
- In 1882 Lieut.-Colonel Richard ELLISON of Boultham Hall was lord of the manor.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Boothby Graffoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey division of the county, in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Kesteven division of the county.
- Boultham Civil Parish was abolished in 1920.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
73 |
| 1831 |
79 |
| 1841 |
72 |
| 1851 |
74 |
| 1871 |
99 |
| 1881 |
114 |
| 1891 |
527 |
| 1911 |
1,028 |
- A School Board was formed here in October, 1895.
- The children of this parish attended school in Bracebridge parish until 1897.
- A Public Elementary School was built in 1897 and enlarged in 1911.
- An Infants' School was erected in 1907.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 19-November-2015
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