Barton on Humber

The Barton-on-Humber Library is open at 9:30AM 6 days a week most weeks:

• Barton-on-Humber Library
• Baysgarth Leisure Centre Baysgarth Park
• Brigg Road
• Lincolnshire, DN18 5DT
• +44 1652 632245

Bernard SHARP has a photograph of Providence House on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.

• Barton Cemetery covers about 8.5 acres and is on Barrow Road. It was consecrated in 1867 and had two mortuary chapels. The cemetery was under the control of a Burial Board and, later, the Urban District Council.

• The parish was in the Barton sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
   
• We have a handful of 1901 census surnames in a text file. Your additions are welcome.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There are two ecclesiastical parishes in the civil parish of Barton: St. Mary and St. Peter.
   
• This section is now a separate web page having over 5MB of photographs. Click on Church History.

• We have a handful of entries in our St. Mary parish register extract file. Your additions are welcome.
   
• The Family History Centre has: St. Peter, marriages 1837-1967, burials 1813-1930, on film. There are a few dates skipped.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Yarborough Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• This parish has, at times, been in the Wraggoe rural deanery of the Stow Archdeaconry.
   
• The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Augustine, was erected in 1840 and could seat 90.
   
• Alex MacGREGOR has a photograph of the Jehovah's Witness Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   
• The Baptists built a chapel here as early as 1663. The Wesleyan Methodists built one in 1840. There was a Primitive Methodist chapel, also, which was rebuilt in 1862. For information on researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Barton is both a village, a town and a parish on the south edge of the River Humber, sitting 165 miles north of London, 10 miles northeast of Brigg and 20 miles northwest of Grimsby. Hull lies 6 miles northeast across the River Humber.

If you are planning a visit:

• Take a Virtual Walk first at Barton's homepage.
   
• By automobile, take the A15 trunk road north out of Barnetby le Wold or south out of Hessel in Yorkshire.
   
• Train service came to Barton in March, 1849. There is still a direct route to Cleethorpe.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Barton on Humber to another place.

• Barton was an ancient market town. Market day was Monday.
   
• A hiring for servants was held on the Wednesday before May Day.
   
• Barton had a coastguard station prior to 1882 through at least 1912.
   
• The parish used to extract 35,000 tons of chalkstone annually.
   
• The parish also contained a clay suitable for firing to create tiles and local pottery.
   
• A Temperence Hall was built in 1843.
   
• Barton was the terminus of a railway branch from New Holland.
   
• A Police Station was built in 1847.
   
• The Corn Exchange was built in 1851.
   
• A Drapery business changed hands in 1862 and was recorded in an advertisement in the Hull Time.
   
• The Oddfellows' Hall was built in Queen Street in 1866.
   
• A Literary Institute was formed in 1868, but was not housed in a building until 1874.
   
• Bernard SHARP has a photograph of the 18th century White Swan Hotel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.

• Bardney Hall is the Manor House.
   
• Baysgarth Park was formerly the seat of the NELTHORPE family.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA034219 (Lat/Lon: 53.683335, -0.43589), Barton on Humber 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 parish had the Tuberculosis Dispensary & Orthopaedic Clinic on Holy Dyke. I could find no reference to this place in 1913. There was no requirement for archiving patient records. Miss HINCH was the "health visitor" in 1930.

• I Company of the 1st Lincoln Rifle Volunteers was established in 1859. They practiced shooting on the banks of the Humber River and had their drill hall in the old Corn Exchange building. Walter AUSTIN was the Captain in 1882; H. W. MEGGITT was the Lieut.; Wm. MERSOM was the drill instructor.
   
• William MERSOM, above, was born in Oxfordshire.
   
• In 1900, I Company of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, still had a drill hall in the Market Place. Captain Harold STEPHENSON, commanding; Lieut. A. R. DOVE; Color-Sergt. John BANKS was the drill instructor.
   
• In 1912, E Company of the 5th Territorial Force Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, had a drill hall on Butts Road. Captain H. G. WILSON, commanding; Color-Sergt. Arthur Edward GOODLEY was the drill instructor.
   
• The War Memorial and the name plaques can be seen at the Cemeteries.

From the Barton War Memorial, by John EMERSON (with additional notations). The webpage author has placed these in rough alphabetical order to make them easier to find:

Key to Notes:

1. Not found in CWGC database.
2. Not enough info. to research.
3. "Best guess" given available data.
4. Date of death in CWGC database doesn't match original source.
5. Battle of Jutland

World War 2:

To keep in lasting remembrance the Barton men & women, who in the 1939-1945 war, died that England might live. Their names are here recorded, and three new bells are placed in St. Mary's steeple.

Key to Notes:

1. Not found in CWGC database.
2. Not enough info. to research.

One man who is missing from the memorial:

He was the husband of Jennie Donner, of 19, Priestgate, Barton.

• In the 1086 Domesday book, the village is given as Bereton.
   
• Locals pronounce the name as Bartun on Umber.
   

• The principal newspaper serving the town was the Hull and Lincolnshire Times, published on Saturdays.
   
• The Barton Times, published on Fridays in Grimsby appears to have ceased publication before World War One.
   
• See our Newspapers web page for more on local newspapers.
   

• Both St. Mary's parish and St. Peter's parish were ancient parishes in Lincoln county and became modern Civil Parishes when those were established.
   
• On 25 March, 1887, the two parishes of St. Mary and St. Peter were amalgamated and to be known as Barton-upon-Humber.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Yarborough Wapentake in the Glanford district in the parts of Lindsey.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Barton-on-Humber petty session hearings every other Monday at the police court.
   
• The enclosure of the Common Lands took place here in 1803.
   
• The Town Houses belonged to the poor since time immemorial. They were located at the Ferry.
   
• The parish had a number of small charities which contributed to supporting the parish poor.
   
• In 1669, Thomas HOLLAND left an almshouse for four poor widows.
   
• In 1679, John TRIPP bequeathed some lands here and directed that the proceeds be distributed yearly as blue clothing among poor men and women. (A so-called "Blue Coat" charity.)
   
• In 1701, Christopher BENTON left Chantry House in Barton as an almhouse for the poor, but it was converted into a workhouse in 1749. In 1878 it was sold and the profits applied toward various parish charities.
   
• In 1729, Mrs. Magdalene GEORGE bequeathed some lands here and directed that the proceeds be distributed yearly as grey cloth among poor men and women.
   
• In 1830, Mrs. Alice INGLE left the interest on £300 which was distributed monthly as bread.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.
   
• In 1861, J. Gilby UPPLEBY, of Leeds, left £200 for distribution amongst the poor householders.
   

Where only one figure is given, it is for the entire civil parish.

Year	St. Mary	St. Peter
1801	674	1,035
1811	2,204
1831	1,704	1,529
1871	2,374	1,958
1881	5,319
1891	5,201
1901	5,671
1911	1,602	Unk.
2001	9,485

Ros DUNNING provides a transcript of the will of LEVI, Isaac of Barton on Humber.

• A National School (for boys, girls and infants) was built in 1844-45 in Queen Street and enlarged in 1879.
   
• The Green School (for boys) was formerly the Grammar School.
   
• The Infants School was built near the church in 1895-6.
   
• The Wesleyan School, on Maltby Lane, was built in 1866. The school closed in 1915.
   
• Bernard SHARP has a photograph of the Maltby Lane School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   
• The Catholic School was built in 1878 in Fleetgate.
   
• St. Chad's School, on Waterside Road, opened in 1905.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.