Great Coates (Great Cotes)
- Brian CHESTER has provided a Monument Inscription lookup feature at his website for St. Nicholas Church.
- Brian CHESTER has provided an example of his work in this FISKE monument from the graveyard:
- The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- In an 1890 re-organization, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby 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 / 631 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2114 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2391 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3416 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2620 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas (the spelling is often given as "Nicolas").
- The church tower dates from the 15th century.
- The church chancel was restored in 1865.
- The church seats 200.
- There is a photograph of St. Nicholas church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
- David WRIGHT has a photograph of the church tower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
- Here is a photo of St. Nicholas Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1653.
- The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists formed a group here in 1759 with William BUTTRES as leader. John BAGLEY took over in 1849. A 99-year land lease by the Lord of the Manor allowed the Wesleyans to build their chapel in 1881. It opened in August of that year.
- The Primitive Methodists built their chapel in 1895. Check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
- Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of one of the Methodist Chapels on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- In an 1890 re-organization, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
This parish and small village are in the north of Lincolnshire, 4 miles from Great Grimsby and 157 miles north of London. The parish borders on the River Humber to the northeast and a stream on the south and southeast called the Freshney. The parish covers about 2,300 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- In the early 1900s, two-fifths of the parish land was pasturage.
- The national grid reference is TA 2310.
- 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.
- "Coats" or "Cotes" is an ancient word for cottages.
- 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 Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, as well as the 1913 edition, places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Lindsey division of the county.
- In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was abolished and most of the land amalgamated into Healing Civil Parish.
- You may contact the Great Coates Village Council regarding civic or political issues, but they will NOT do family history lookups for you.
- District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
208 |
| 1831 |
235 |
| 1841 |
245 |
| 1871 |
228 |
| 1881 |
245 |
| 1891 |
217 |
| 1911 |
364 |
- A National School (Public Elementary School) was built here in 1872 to hold 50 children.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 11-April-2015
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