North Owersby

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

Alternatively, you can use the Market Rasen Library as a resource, also.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor 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 Martin.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1746 and partially restored in 1888.
   
• The church seats 138.
   
• There is a popular rhyme sung by children in nearby parishes and villages (origin and date unknown):  

'Owersby parish, wicked people
Sold their bells to build a steeple'

• A photograph of St. Martin's church is at the Wendy Parkinson English Church Photographs site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Martin's church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
   
• The Bishop's Transcripts of the register dates from 1562 through 1845. These are available on microfilm from the Family History Library.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• There is a booklet, apparently published in the 1920s, entitled "Many Thoughts from Many Minds," publisher unreported. Proceeds from the booklet were for Owersby Parish Church Restoration. Pat COOK provides these Lincolnshire names from the booklet.
   
• The Wesleyans had a chapel here, built in 1856, and the Free Methodists built their's in 1881. The Wesleyan chapel was rebuilt in 1908. For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This village and parish are 6 miles northwest of Market Rasen. The parish covers over 3,400 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Visit our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from North Owersby to another place.

• Old Hall was formerly the residence of a branch of the MONSON family.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF060946 (Lat/Lon: 53.437304, -0.40555), North Owersby 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.

• The Owersby War Memorial is within the Church of St. Martin on a carved wooden screen. It is documented at the Memorial-Lincs site.

• North Owersby is also called Long Owersby.

• This place was an ancient township in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey division of the county.
   
• Parish boundaries have varied over the centuries, so check neighboring parishes for your family.
   
• In April, 1936, the Civil Parishes of North Owersby and South Owersby were abolished to create a new Civil Parish of "Owersby".
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
   

• In 1871, the lord of the manor provided £5 as an annual dole for the poor of the parish.
   
• After the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	233
1831	297
1841	356
1871	359
1881	343
1891	390
1901	305
1911	283

• The Free School was founded by Alexander WRAWBY in 1705.
   
• In 1912, The Free School could hold 100 children, but average attendance was 80.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.