Coroners' Records

CORONERS' RECORDS AT LINCOLNSHIRE ARCHIVES - SUMMARY

18th to 19th Centuries

LINCOLNSHIRE (whole county): inquests 1753-1774 (ref INQ; these records have been listed and indexed - ask Search Room staff for details)

CAISTOR: registers of inquests 1837-1880, and other miscellaneous records (ref LAMB 4)

KIRTON (LINDSEY): inquests and depositions 1869-1911 (ref CORONER/KIRTON + date + name)

SPALDING: inquests, 1810-1873 (some years missing). Includes, for the earlier years, a few inquests held in Kesteven by the Spalding coroner, Samuel Edwards. Edwards had previously been a coroner in Huntingdonshire, and this deposit consequently also includes a small bundle of Huntingdonshire (Farcet, Yaxley, Stanground area) inquests, 1802-1806

STAMFORD & SOUTH RUTLAND: inquests 1894-1909 (listed)

20th century

Coroners' records are subject to closure periods of 30 years for registers of deaths and routine administrative papers, and 75 years for individual inquest files/death reports. Requests to view closed material will be passed on to the appropriate coroner by Lincolnshire Archives staff.

* Denotes district no longer in existence

1. BOSTON*

Inquests & depositions c.1910-1929, 1942-1947, 1957-1983

2. BOSTON & SPALDING JOINT

Inquests 1984-1998

3. CAISTOR*

Correspondence files 1945-1948; death reports & inquest files 1959-1974

4. GRANTHAM

Registers of deaths 1967-1998; inquest files, post-mortem reports, etc. 1980s-2000

5. KIRTON (LINDSEY)*

Inquests, depositions, etc 1942-1973; registers 1921-1973, but these give no details other than name, and date of inquest; (also inquests 1900-1911 - see above)

6. LINCOLN CITY*

Inquests, depositions, etc 1911-1930; 1944-1973. Returns 1936-1971

7. LINCOLN NORTH*

A few depositions & papers 1901-1916. Inquests, depositions, reports, etc, 1965-1974.

8. LINCOLN DISTRICT

Inquests 1974-2000

9. LOUTH

Inquests 1946-1971; depositions, reports 1943-1962; notebook 1944-1946

10. NORTH KESTEVEN*

Registers of deaths 1952-1974; inquests 1971-1974; correspondence 1954-1974

11. SLEAFORD

Registers of deaths 1938-1987; inquests 1950-1954 & 1958-2001

12. SPALDING*

Inquests 1971-1983; "general" files 1954-1983; register of deaths 1953-1967; daily record registers 1964-1984

13. SPILSBY

Inquests 1900-1987 (some gaps)

14. STAMFORD

Inquests 1984-1993; death by natural causes files 1977-1993; (also inquests 1900-1909 - see above)

15. WEST KESTEVEN*

Inquests 1959-1974; registers of reported deaths 1954-1974