Firsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Firsby, a village, and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the G.N.R.,4 miles SSW of Burgh, and 5 SE of Spilsby, with a station on the railway at the junction of the Spilsby and Skegness branches. Post town and money order office, Spilsby; telegraph office, Firsby railway station. Acreage, 1107; population of the civil parish, 228; of the ecclesiastical, with Great Steeping, 453. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Great Steeping, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £264 with residence. The church, a small building of stone in the Early English style, was rebuilt in 1856. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Bishop War-burton was rector from 1730 to 1756.
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 | Firsby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby | |
Wapentake | Candleshoe |
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 Firsby By Spilsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1704-1812 | 1770-1770 | 1717-1837 | 1717-1812 |
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 Firsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Firsby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Firsby 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: