England GenWeb Project - Lincolnshire, North Ormsby

North Ormsby (Nun Ormsby)

A priory of Gildbertine nuns was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and founded here in the reign of Stephen (giving rise to the "Nun Ormsby" name for the parish).
The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen. Some directories (Kelly's and White's) give the dedication to All Saints, but this is incorrect.
The church was rebuilt in 1848.
The church seats 100 people.
In the churchyard, six graves have been found, reputedly from Saxon burials.
The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in December, 1980. In 1984 it was sold for residential use.
Here is a photo of St. Helen's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

St. Helen's Church

The Anglican parish register dates from 1741.
The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

The parish was in the Binbrook 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 7 miles north-west of Louth. Ludborough parish is to the north. The parish covers about 1,700 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

By automobile, take the A16 trunk road between Louth and Grimsby. The village is south of the A18 interconnect, just west of the A16.
Visit our touring page for more sources.

Chalk was once quarried in the parish.
The ancient village of North Ormsby was abandoned in medieval times.
The ancient village site is preserved as a "Deserted Medieval Village".
Richard CROFT has a photograph of the deserted village area on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.

The national grid reference is TF 2893.
You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
You might like the 1906 inch-to-the-mile map of North East Lincolnshire.
See our Maps page for additional resources.

This parish is also listed as "Nun Ormsby". This may have been because of the Nunnery established here after The Conquest.

This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
The parish was in the ancient Ludborough Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
North Ormsby is small enough that it feels it can manage its civil and political functions via a Parish Meeting called as needed.
For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings.

Year Inhabitants

1801 79

1831 128

1841 132

1871 175

1881 180

1891 183

1901 122

1911 120

Last updated on 8-May-2015
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