Great Coates

The parish had a Reading Room on Station Road and The Avenue sometime in the 1800s.

The Grimsby Library is an excellent resource with both a Local History section and a Family History section.

• Brian CHESTER has provided a Monument Inscription lookup feature at his website for St. Nicholas Church.(JB)
   
• Brian CHESTER has provided an example of his work in this FISKE monument from the graveyard:
   

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In an 1890 re-organization, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas (the spelling is often given as "Nicolas").
   
• The church tower dates from the 15th century.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1865.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• There is a photograph of the Anglican parish church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of the church tower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Nicholas Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1653.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists formed a group here in 1759 with William BUTTRES as leader. John BAGLEY took over in 1849. A 99-year land lease by the Lord of the Manor allowed the Wesleyans to build their chapel in 1881. It opened in August of that year.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built their chapel in 1895. Check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of one of the Methodist Chapels on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In an 1890 re-organization, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This parish and small village are in the north of Lincolnshire, 4 miles from Great Grimsby and 157 miles north of London. The parish borders on the River Humber to the northeast and a stream on the south and south-east called the Freshney. The parish covers about 2,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Passenger rail service came to Great Coates in 1848.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• David NOCHOLSON provides a report on his ancestors' emigration from Great Coates to Canada. The format is PDF.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Great Coates to another place.

• In the early 1900s, two-fifths of the parish land was pasturage.
   
• Ben BROOKSBANK has a photograph of the Great Coates station on Geo-graph, taken in 1997.
   
• Grimsby housing and manufacturing development spilled over into Great Coates after World War Two, making it a suburb of the larger town.
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• Great Coates usually has an annual Scarecrow Weekend in June. Visitors are welcome.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA238103 (Lat/Lon: 53.574977, -0.132179), Great Coates which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Ian S. has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2020. The memorial is mounted on a wall at the Great Coates Village Nursery School. This memorial was unveiled in June 1920 and rededicated in November 1991.

There is also a WWI Memorial in the church which is a brass stand surmounted by a brass lectern in the shape of an eagle with its wings outstretched.

The brass WWI Memorial in the church has the following names (All deceased in WWI):

1. Collingwood, W.
2. Hinch, T.
3. Mackenzie, A. H.
4. Manship, A. H.
5. Ornby, C.
6. Robinson, C.

The War Memorial at the Nursery School is reported by the IWM to have 64 names on it, but only 57 are recorded. The names are:

1. Adams, C. B.
2. Adams, E.
3. Adams, R. A.
4. Atkins, W.
5. Beacock, H.
6. Bolton, C.
7. Boocock, J. C.
8. Bories, F. W.
9. Borrell, H.
10. Brocklebank, F.
11. Brown, J. R.
12. Carbutt, C. W.
13. Clemes, F.
14. Clift, J. H.
15. Collingwood, W.
16. Crawford, C. H.
17. Cruby, R.
18. Dobbs, W.
19. Earoley, E.
20. Farmery, W.
21. Fenwick, W.
22. Fowler, R.
23. Franklin, H. N.
24. Harrison, C.
25. Harrison, T.
26. Hatcliffe, F.
27. Hinch, T.
28. Hollingsworth, H.
29. Hollingsworth, R.
30. Kendall, C.
31. Kirton, J. W.
32. Lawson, A.
33. Leaver, S.
34. Mackenzie, A. S.
35. Manship, A. H.
36. Maskell, T.
37. Moore, C.
38. Pratt, W. P.
39. Proctor, J.
40. Quirk, D.
41. Quirk, R. A.
42. Raithby, J.
43. Raithby, T.
44. Richardson, W. B.
45. Robinson, C.
46. Rodham, R.
47. Sarcent, C.
48. Shreeve, E.
49. Skells, R.
50. Smith, E.
51. Smith, F. H.
52. Smith, W. L. W.
53. Stephens, J. R M.
54. Stockoale, H.
55. Swain, H.
56. Waddingham, E.
57. Waumsley, A. W.

• "Coats" or "Cotes" is an ancient word for cottages.

The Great Coates Village Council publishes a parish magazine about 4 times per year, Recent copies are online at the council site, older issues may be found at the Grimsby Library.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, as well as the 1913 edition, places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Lindsey division of the county.
   
• In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was abolished and most of the land amalgamated into Healing Civil Parish.
   
• A few years later, the parish was reconstituted as a Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the Great Coates Village Council regarding civic or political issues, but they will NOT do family history lookups for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty session courts.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   
• In an 1890 district re-organization, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	208
1831	235
1841	245
1871	228
1881	245
1891	217
1901	294
1911	364

• A National School was built here in 1872 to hold 50 children.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.