Kirkby with Osgodby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Kirkby-with-Osgodby, a parish in Lincolnshire, in which are the two villages of Kirkby and Osgodby, about 2 miles from Usselby station on the M.S. & L.R., and 3½ NW of Market Rasen. There is a post office at Osgodby, under Market Rasen; money order office, Claxby; telegraph office, Market Rasen. Acreage, 1761; population of the civil parish, 353; of the ecclesiastical, with Owersby, 814. The manor belongs to the Hewett family. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Owersby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £320 with residence. The church, an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, has some interesting memorials of the Wild-bere family. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and there is a Roman Catholic chapel at Osgodby.
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 | Kirkby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Walshcroft |
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 Kirkby Cum Osgodby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1911 | 1773-1774 | 1560-1911 | 1560-1911 |
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 Kirkby with Osgodby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kirkby (St. Andrew))
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: