England GenWeb Project - Lincolnshire, Thonock

Thonock

Warning: Thonock is NOT an ancient parish of Lincolnshire. It was formed in 1895 as a civil parish. It was dissolved 80 years later.

The parish was in the Gainsborough sub-district of the Gainsborough Registration District.
Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.

Residents of this parish used either the churches at Gainsborough or the church at Morton.
The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes for the Corringham Deanery to make your search easier.
Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

The parish was in the Gainsborough sub-district of the Gainsborough Registration District.
Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began, for this parish, in Sept., 1894.

Thonock was a parish about 2 miles north of Gainsborough. The parish covered about 1,040 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

By automobile, take the A159 arterial north out of Gainsborough. It passes through the heart of Thonock.
Jonathan BILLINGER has a photograph of the A159 through Thonock on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
There is a Golf Club in Thonock. Tele: 01427 613088.
See our touring page for more sources.

Thonock Hall, the seat of Sir Hickman B. Bacon in 1912, was a plain mansion of brick and stone. It had been a HICKMAN family seat for centuries.
The Hall was demolished a few years ago and the grounds incorporated into a golf park.

The national grid reference is SK 8292.
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 civil parish was created in September, 1895, from part of Gainsborough parish when the hamlet of Thonock was incorporated as a parish.
The parish was in the ancient Well Wapentake (Well Hundred) in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
In the 1900s the parish was in the Corringham Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
The civil parish was disolved in 1974.
The district governance was provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union when the parish was created.
Bastardy cases would be heard in the Gainsborough petty session hearings.

Year Inhabitants

1891 96

1901 80

1911 82

1921 114

1931 70

1951 64

Last updated on 15-January-2014
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