Dembleby
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford 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 / 617 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2100 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2343 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3350 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2579 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lucia (St. Lucy).
- The old church was taken down in 1867. The new church was built upon a better site in the Norman style. The vestry in the new church was transported from the old church.
- The new church was consecrated in January, 1868.
- The church seats 60.
- A photograph of Saint Lucia Church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of Saint Lucia Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
- Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish registers date from 1553.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1763 to 1812 and Marriages from 1767 to 1811.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Dembleby is both a village and a parish, 9 miles northeast of Grantham and just west of the A15 trunk road. The parish covers about 1,100 acres.
The village is listed as "ancient" in an 1842 White's Directory. A small rivulet runs through the village coming down from Aunsby. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take either the A15 south from Sleaford or the A52 east out of Grantham.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- Although a sparsely populated parish, Dembleby was the source of excellent limestone from a quarry in the parish.
- The national grid reference is TF 0437.
- An Ordnance Survey Explorer map will show detail of 2.5 inches to 1 mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Aswardhurn Wapentake in the North Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire lists the parish as being in the ancient Aveland Wapentake in the North Kesteven district.
- In April, 1931, this Civil Parish was abolished and amalgamated into the new Aunsby and Dembleby Civil Parish.
- For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings every Monday.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
50 |
| 1841 |
58 |
| 1851 |
84 |
| 1871 |
78 |
| 1881 |
72 |
| 1891 |
55 |
| 1901 |
51 |
| 1911 |
73 |
| 1921 |
52 |
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