Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Gonerby, Great, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, in the Parts of Resteven and petty sessional division of Spittlegate. The village, which stands on the great North Road, near the G.N.R., 2 miles NNW of Grantham, is large and well built, and has a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Grantham. The parish comprises 3943 acres; population, 1053. The manor belongs to Earl Brownlow, who owns about half the soil. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Grantham. The church, dedicated to St Sebastian, is an ancient building of stone in various styles; it is interesting and handsome, consisting of nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, and chancel; it has an embattled tower, with crocketed spire, having three bells and a clock, and contains an altar-tomb of 1500. It was restored in 1875, and in 1890 a handsome organ was erected. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist 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 | Gonerby St. Sebastian | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Great Gonerby 1560-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Great Gonerby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1836 | 1654-1657 | 1560-1837 | 1560-1885 |
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 Great Gonerby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Gonerby, Great (St. Sebastian))
Maps
Online maps of Great Gonerby 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury