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- 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 is a parish about 2 miles north of Gainsborough. The parish covers about 1,040 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- Byautomobile, take the A159 arterial north out of Gainsborough. It passes thru 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.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thonock to another place.
- Thonock Hall, the seat of Sir Hickman B. Bacon in 1912, is a plain mansion of brick and stone. It had been a HICKMAN family seat for centuries.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK828928 (Lat/Lon: 53.425338, -0.75531), Thonock 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 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 (WellHundred) 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 abolished in 1974.
- Today's district governance is 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.
- The children of this parish attended school at Morton.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.