Rigsby

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish is mentioned in Reginald C. DUDDING's "History of the parish and manors of Alford with Rigsby and Ailby," published by W. K. Morton, 1930, 223 pages.

David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St. James' Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2008.

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby 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 / 642
1851	H.O. 107 / 2110
1861	R.G. 9 / 2378
1871	R.G. 10 / 3395
1891	R.G. 12 / 2605

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James.
   
• The original church structure here was of Norman origin.
   
• The church was rebuilt and reopened in 1863.
   
• There is a photograph of St. James church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of St. James' Church Interior on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012.
   
• Here is a photo of St. James Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1686.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

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

Rigsby is both a village and a parish just over 130 miles north of London and about 1.5 miles west of Alford. Driby parish forms the western border, with Well parish to the south. This parish covers about 1,040 acres and includes the hamlet of Ailby.

If you are planning a visit:

• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2020. You could, perhaps, use your artistic and advertising talents to create a more distinctive sign.
   
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF430755 (Lat/Lon: 53.256947, 0.141706), Rigsby 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 fifteenth century sword and helmet were discovered in a tomb in the churchyard. Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Sword and Helmet on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2008.
   
• The Roll of Honour for World War II for the parish is combined with Alford's and can be seen on Geo-graph as photographed by John Readman.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry of Alford in Lincoln county and it became a traditional parish prior to 1800. By 1830 it was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish.
   
• The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Rigsby is a small enough parish that the citizens can function without a formal Parish Council. The citizens hold a Parish Meeting as needed to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	104
1811	93
1831	99
1841	103
1871	96
1881	112
1891	90
1901	82
1911	72

• The children of this parish attended schools in Alford and Well parishes.
   
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.