Sutton St. Edmund

• The Library at Holbeach may prove useful in your research.
   
• Some Sutton St. Edmund parish records can be found at the Spalding Library.

Evelyn SIMAK has a photograph of St. Edmund's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.

Adrian S. PYE also has a phtograph of Gravestones in Sutton St. Edmund's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.

• The parish was part of the Long Sutton sub-district of the Holbeach Registration District.
   
• In an 1890 re-organization, Sutton St. Edmund became a part of the Gedney Hill sub-district within the Holbeach Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The church is dedicated to Saint Edmund (hence the parish name).
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1798.
   
• Sutton St. Edmund used to be a chapelry of Long Sutton before being formed into its own parish.
   
• There is a bridge over the stream on the southeast corner of the parish, which takes one into Cambridgeshire. Harold's Bridge had a small Methodist chapel on the Cambridge side. (JB)
   
• Here is a photo of St. Edmund's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):

• Parish registers exist from 1706 (some sources give 1700). Bishop's transcripts go back to 1561.
   
• Sutton St. Edmund is in the East Elloe Deanery.
   
• The Baptists and the Free Methodists had chapels here in the 1800's. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was part of the Long Sutton sub-district of the Holbeach Registration District.
   
• In 1891, Sutton St. Edmund became a part of the Gedney Hill sub-district within the Holbeach Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.

Sutton St. Edmund is a parish and a village about 100 miles north of London, 14 miles southeast from Spalding and 5 miles west of the A1101 trunk road that runs between Wisbech and Long Sutton. Gedney Hill parish lies to the west, separated by a cut of the South Holland Main Drain. Cambridgeshire to the south and east, also defined by a drainage cut. The area is typical fenland: marshy and flat, drained by several small canals and the larger South Holland Main Drain.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, consider taking the B1166 arterial road west out of Wisbech. It will take you across the south end of the parish.
   
• There is caravan parking and camping just south of the village, near the B1166 road.
   
• Adrian S. PYE has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of a different Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013. Rather ordinary, eh?
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutton St. Edmund to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF369133 (Lat/Lon: 52.70047, 0.024633), Sutton St. Edmund which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• In the middle of the village is a granite cross, erected to memorialize the men of the parish who perished in World War I.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

• For World War I and World War II, see the Roll of Honour site for a list of those who served.
   
• One lad lost in World War One was George FLOWERS. He and all his crewmates were lost when the HMS Good Hope was sunk at the Battle of Coronel on 1 Nov. 1914.

• The name Sutton St. Edmund is from the Old English suth+tun, or "southern village", with the church name attached.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]

• This parish was formed from Long Sutton civil parish in December, 1866. Prior to that, the area had been a chapelry of Long Sutton.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Elloe Wapentake in the South Holland district in the parts of Holland.
   
• For local parish governance, visit the Sutton St Edmund Parish Council site. Be aware, they are NOT staffed to answer family history questions.
   
• For today's district governance, visit the South Holland District Council site.
   
• In March, 1884. the Hospital Drove portion of this Civil Parish was transfered to Sutton St. Mary Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1934. this Civil Parish gained 82 acres from Parson Drove Civil Parish in Cambridgeshire.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Elloe (Spalding) petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reform in 1834, the parish became part of the Holbeach Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1831	626
1871	734
1881	676
1891	645
1901	600
1911	652
1921	677

• There was a school here, rebuilt in 1856 and enlarged in 1871. In the 1870's it had about 55 students.
   
• Sutton St. Edmund's School was built in 1896 to hold 100 students. It was initially simply called "The Board School".
   
• Southeau School was built in 1898 to hold 70 students.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.

Note: Sections marked (JB) were contributed by John R. G. Bland of Lincolnshire.