Little Coates

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

• Brian CHESTER provides the St. Michael Monument Index as a search aid.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Gateway to the graveyard at St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In 1890, 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 Michael.
   
• The church is built of grey stone.
   
• The church was renovated in 1903.
   
• The church seats only 70.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Michael's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• John BLAKESTON has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Michael's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1726.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In 1890, 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 village and parish are wedged between Great Coates, Grimsby and the North Sea. The parish covers about 1,070 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In the early 1900s, the parish was home of the Peter DIXON and Son Paper Company in the West Marsh area.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA246086 (Lat/Lon: 53.559634, -0.12042), Little 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.

A War Memorial Cross was dedicated in October 1920. It is a Celtic round cross standing on a plinth on a granite base. There are no names inscribed on the memorial.

John Readman provides the following, taken from the Roll of Honour at St. Michael's church. It's for the Great War 1914-1919. It lists all the people from the village who went to war and names those who were killed:

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

• 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.
   
• The parish was within the parliamentary borough of Great Grimsby.
   
• In April, 1923, this Civil Parish was abolished and most of the land amalgamated into Grimsby Civil Parish.
   
• District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty sessional courts.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   
• In 1890, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	52
1831	49
1851	42
1871	66
1881	60
1891	55
1901	83

• The children of this parish attended school at Great Coates.
   
• Little Coates school was opened in Harlow Street in 1973, and is still functioning.
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• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.