Dowsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Dowsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3¼ miles SE by S of Folkingliam, and 1 mile N by W from Rippingale station on the G.N.R., with a post office under Folkingham; money order and telegraph office, Rippingale. Acreage, 1905; population, 171. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; value, £424. The church is old but good, and has an embattled tower. Dowsby Hall is the chief residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Dowsby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Aveland |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Dowsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1731-1911 | 1824-1911 | 1731-1911 | 1732-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Dowsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dowsby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Dowsby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury