Little Cawthorpe
- Little Cawthorpe Cemetery is on Top Road.
- The parish was in the Louth 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 / 630 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2111 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2382 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3403 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2608 |
| 1901 |
R.G. 13 / 3084 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
- The church was rebuilt in 1861 of brick and stone.
- It is a small church, seating only about 60.
- The church was declared redundant in April, 1996, by the Diocese of Lincoln.
- Here is a photo of St. Helen's, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1679.
- We have the very beginning of a Parish Register Extract in a text file. It could benefit from your additions and any corrections.
- The National Burial Index lists 267 burials in Little Cawthorpe between 1813 and 1900.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
- A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1848. The Free Methodists built a chapel here in 1872. 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 Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
This village and parish are just 3 miles south-east of Louth. Legbourne parish sits to the north-east and Haugham parish to the south-west. The parish covers about 460 acres and contains several natural springs.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A157 trunk road south-east out of Louth for about two miles. The village is just south of the roadway.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- The Manor House was once the seat of the MOTTRAM family. It was erected in 1673.
- The national grid reference is TF 3585.
- 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.
John READMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on the Geo-graph site, taken in May, 2003.
- Cawthorpe was formerly called Calthorpe or Calkthorpe.
- This place was an ancient parish in the county of Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the ancient Louthesk Hundred.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- The parish had the interest from £10, on deposit in a Louth savings bank, for distribution to the poor.
- After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
98 |
| 1831 |
137 |
| 1841 |
196 |
| 1871 |
204 |
| 1881 |
167 |
| 1891 |
146 |
| 1901 |
140 |
| 1911 |
141 |
| 1921 |
131 |
| 1931 |
111 |
Last updated on 11-April-2015
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