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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishKirkby St. Andrew 
Poor Law unionCaistor 
WapentakeWalshcroft 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1560-19111773-17741560-19111560-1911

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kirkby with Osgodby from the following:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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