Caenby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Caenby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 8 miles W of Market-Rasen station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Lincoln; money order office, Normanby; telegraph office, Market-Easen. Acreage, 1456; population, 116. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £277 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is a Gothic building of stone. There was a church on the same site anterior to the Conquest.
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 | Caenby St. Nicholas | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Caenby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1712-1911 | 1760-1831 | 1714-1901 | 1712-1819 |
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 Caenby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Caenby (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Caenby 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: