Thurlby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Thurlby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 3 miles ESE of Swinderby station on the M.R., and 8½ NE of Newark. Post town, Newark; money order and telegraph office, Bassingham. Acreage, 1847; population, 112. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a small building of stone, and has been well restored.
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 | Thurlby St. German | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Thurlby 1576-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
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 Thurlby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thurlby (St. German))
Maps
Online maps of Thurlby 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
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Northorpe (Thurlby)Obthorpe