Little Cawthorpe

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

• Little Cawthorpe Cemetery is on Top Road.

J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of gravestones in St. Helen's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.

• The civil parish was in the Louth 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 / 630
1851	H.O. 107 / 2111
1861	R.G. 9 / 2382
1871	R.G. 10 / 3403
1891	R.G. 12 / 2608
1901	R.G. 13 / 3084

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1861 of brick and stone.
   
• It is a small church, seating only 60.
   
• The church is suffering from Subsidence.
   
• The church was declared redundant in April, 1996, by the Diocese of Lincoln.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Helen's, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1679.
   
• We have the very beginning of a Parish Register Extract in a text file. It could benefit from your additions and any corrections.
   
• The National Burial Index lists 267 burials in Little Cawthorpe between 1813 and 1900.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1848. The Free Methodists built a chapel here in 1872.
   
• For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This village and parish are just 3 miles south-east of Louth, on the eastern side of the Wolds. Legbourne parish sits to the north-east and Haugham parish to the south-west. The parish covers about 460 acres and contains several natural springs.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A157 trunk road south-east out of Louth for about two miles. The village is just south of the roadway.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• John WALTON has a photograph of the Ford at Watery Lane on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010. Drive slowly - you don't want to hit the water going too fast.
   
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Peter Church has a photograph of the 17th century Royal Oak on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.

• The Manor House was once the seat of the MOTTRAM family. It was erected in 1673.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Little Crawley Manor on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2007.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF357840 (Lat/Lon: 53.335793, 0.037165), Little Cawthorpe 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.

John READMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on the Geo-graph site, taken in May, 2003.

• Cawthorpe was formerly called Calthorpe or Calkthorpe.

• This place was an ancient parish in the county of Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Some directories of the 1900s place the parish was in the ancient Louthesk Hundred.
   
• You mary contact the local Parish Coucil regarding civic and political matters, but they can NOT assist you with family history searches.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• The parish had the interest from £10, on deposit in a Louth savings bank, for distribution to the poor.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	98
1831	137
1841	196
1871	204
1881	167
1891	146
1901	140
1911	141
1921	131
1931	111

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