Aswardby
Note: This is NOT Aswarby parish. Note the missing "D" in that parish name.
- The parish was in the Spilsby sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 626 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2109 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2375 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3393A |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2603 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
- The church is built of stone and brick.
- The church was repaired in 1884.
- The church seats just 50.
- David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2007.
- Here is a photograph St. Helen's Church supplied by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1754.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1760 to 1811 and Marriages from 1754 to 1812.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
- The church is listed in 1900 as being in the rural deanery of Hill No. 2.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here prior to 1871. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Spilsby sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Aswardby is both a village and a parish, about 4 miles northwest of Spilsby. Sausthorpe parish is to the south. The parish only covers about 744 acres.
- The national grid reference is TF 3770.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- A War Memorial, shared with Sausthorpe parish, was dedicated in January, 1922. The Lincoln Archives have a copy of a document relating to the dedication.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were created.
- The parish was in the ancient Hill Wapentake (Hill Hundred) in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 and 1913 Directories of Lincolnshire put the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey division of the county.
- You may contact the Aswardby Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are Not funded nor staffed to assist you with family history searches.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spilsby petty session hearings every other Monday.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
59 |
| 1831 |
80 |
| 1841 |
92 |
| 1871 |
60 |
| 1881 |
58 |
| 1891 |
89 |
| 1901 |
69 |
| 1911 |
85 |
- The children of this parish attended school at Sausthorpe.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.
Last updated on 5-December-2015
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