Stragglethorpe
- The parish was in the Claypole sub-district of the Newark 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 / 622 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2482 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2716 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
- The church is a small, stone building combining Early English and Norman styles.
- The church seats about 100 persons.
- A photograph of Saint Michael's is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
- Here is a photo of St. Michael's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The parish register dates from 1701, but the Bishop's transcripts start in 1565.
- The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Loveden Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1701 to 1812 and Marriages from 1701 to 1806.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Claypole sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration starting in July, 1837.
Stragglethorpe is a parish and small village about 8 miles east of Newark on Trent, just south of Brant Broughton parish and east of Beckingham parish. The parish covers about 730 acres.
The village of Stragglethorpe lies just south of the A17 trunk road between Newark and Sleaford. Two branches of the River Brant flow northward on either side of the village. If you are planning a visit:
- Accomodations are available at Stragglethorpe Hall, Tel: 01400 272-308.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- The church contains a monument to Sir Richard EARLE, baronet, dated 13 August 1697. He was the last male descendant of that family.
- Stragglethorpe Old Hall was the ancestral seat of the EARLE family. In the early 1900's it was occupied by the TONGE family, local farmers.
- Check the history of the Wapentake at the Loveden Wapentake website.
- The principal landowner in 1872 was baronet Sir Glynns Earle WELBY-GREGORY, whose ancestors succedded to the manor when the last of the EARLE family died (see History).
- The principal landowners in 1913 were John and Richard TONGE, local farmers.
- The national grid reference is SK 9152.
- 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 Stragglethorpe is of uncertain origin, combining the Old Scandinavian thorp, or "outlying farmstead" with what appears to be a personal name. It first appears in 1242 as Stragerthorp.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
White's 1842 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish:
CHAMBERS, LIEUSLEY and TONGE.
White's 1872 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish:
BONNER, HICKSON, PARKE, SPENCER, STUFFIN and TONGE.
Here are surnames shown in Kelly's 1911 Directory:
BONNER and TONGE.
- This place was an ancient Chapelry in Beckingham parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish at an early date.
- The parish was in the ancient Loveden Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
- For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard at the Spittlegate (Grantham) petty session hearings.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
79 |
| 1841 |
85 |
| 1871 |
85 |
| 1881 |
90 |
| 1891 |
73 |
| 1911 |
74 |
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