England GenWeb Project - Lincolnshire, South Owersby

South Owersby

The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

The web page author could find no history of a church in this parish.
Many residents of this parish attended Anglican services in either North Owersby parish or in Kirkby-cum-Osgodby parish.

The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This small village and parish are in the north of Lincolnshire about 5 miles north of Market Rasen. The parish covers about 1,440 acres.

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The national grid reference is TF 0693.
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.

For centuries, South Owersby was just a township in the larger Owersby parish. It was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish in Decmber, 1866.
The parish was in the West division (and, later, the North division) of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
In April, 1936, the Civil Parish was dissolved and all 1,446 acres were amalgamated into a new "Owersby Civil Parish."
The citizens are now served by the Owersby Parish Council, which you can contact regarding civic or political issues. They are NOT staffed to help you with family history research.
Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834 , this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.

Year Inhabitants

1801 89

1831 110

1841 124

1871 106

1881 92

1891 71

1901 87

1911 105

Last updated on 26-April-2015
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