Hannah (Hannah cum Hagnaby)
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth 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 / 636 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2111 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2379 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3399 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2606 |
- In 1175, a Premonstratensian Abbey was founded by Herbert de ORREBY in the hamlet of Hagnaby. All the buildings were gone by the 1800s.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and located in Hannah.
- The church is a small brick building with a wooden belfry.
- The church seats 100.
- There is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
- Here is a photo of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
- The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here prior to 1841 in Hagnaby. For more on researching this chapel and their records, check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Hannah is a parish containing two small hamlets; Hannah and Hagnaby. The parish lies about 4 miles north-east of Alford, 2.5 miles from the North Sea and 15 miles south-east of Louth. The parish covers about 1,000 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- The national grid reference is TF 5079.
- 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.
- The name Hannah appears in many old records as Hannay.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty sessional hearings on alternate Tuesdays.
- Richard BOWIS gave the parish £22 and the overseers used the annual interest to distribute bread to the poor.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
83 |
| 1811 |
84 |
| 1831 |
97 |
| 1841 |
122 |
| 1851 |
114 |
| 1871 |
124 |
| 1891 |
85 |
| 1901 |
83 |
| 1911 |
87 |
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