Bonby or Bondeby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bonby or Bondeby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Ancholme, 3 miles NW of Elsham station on the M.S. & L.R., and 6 N of Brigg, with a post office under Hull; money order office, Worlaby; telegraph office, Elsham (R.S.) Acreage of parish, 2467; population, 341. An alien priory was founded here in the time of King John, and given to the Chartreux House at Beanval in Notts in the time of Henry IV. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £186 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is an ancient building of brick in the Early English style. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Bonby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Bonby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1649-1911 | 1754-1798 | 1649-1911 | 1649-1911 |
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 Bonby or Bondeby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bonby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Bonby or Bondeby 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: