Somerby (Grantham), Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Somerby, near Grantham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles SE from Grantham, which is the nearest railway station. There is a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Ropsley. For civil purposes The parish is now called Old Somerby and New Somerby. Old Somerby has a population of 185, New Somerby about 1700, and is in the borough of Grantham. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 1717. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart. The living is a rectory, embracing New Somerby, in the diocese of Lincoln, in the gift of the Earl of Ancaster. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Early English and Decorated styles, and has a beautiful Norman chancel arch with some other Norman work. It has some ancient brasses, tombs, and monuments. The mission church of St Anne was erected in 1884. The township-chapelry of Humby is noticed separately.
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 | Somerby St. Mary Magdalene | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Winnibriggs and Threo |
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 Somerby By Grantham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1730-1888 | 1756-1806 | 1730-1844 | 1730-1911 |
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 Somerby (Grantham) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Somerby (St. Mary Magdalene))
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: