Hannah cum Hagnaby

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth 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 / 636
1851	H.O. 107 / 2111
1861	R.G. 9 / 2379
1871	R.G. 10 / 3399
1891	R.G. 12 / 2606

• In 1175, a Premonstratensian Abbey was founded by Herbert de ORREBY in the hamlet of Hagnaby. All the buildings were gone by the 1800s.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and located in Hannah.
   
• The church is a small brick building with a wooden belfry. It is in the "Early English" style.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Both the Western Methodists and the Primitive Methodists had chapels here.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Hannah is a parish containing two small hamlets; Hannah and Hagnaby. The parish lies about 4 miles north-east of Alford, 2.5 miles from the North Sea and 15 miles south-east of Louth. The parish covers about 1,000 acres.

If you are planning a visit, see:

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hannah cum Hagnaby to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF500791 (Lat/Lon: 53.287846, 0.248995), Hannah cum Hagnaby 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.
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• The name Hannah appears in many old records as Hannay.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty sessional hearings on alternate Tuesdays.
   
• Richard BOWIS gave the parish £22 and the overseers used the annual interest to distribute bread to the poor.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	83
1811	84
1831	97
1841	122
1851	114
1871	124
1891	85
1901	83
1911	87

• The children of this parish attended school in nearby Markby parish.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.