Somerby (by Brigg)

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

Alternatively, you can use the Glanford Brigg Library as resource, also.

• The parish was in the Caistor 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 Margaret.
   
• The church is a building of stone constructed as early as the 11th century, although most sources list it as 13th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1884-85.
   
• The church seats only 70.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Margaret's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Margaret's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1661.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes for the Haverstoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Caistor 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 is between Bigby and Grasby, about 4 miles east of Brigg and 4.5 northwest from Caistor. The parish is small, covering only 989 acres, primarily of agricultural land.

The village is small enough to escape mention on small scale (large area) maps. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1084 trunk road east out of Brigg. the parish is 4 miles east of Brigg and covers about 1,000 acres.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Somerby (by Brigg) to another place.

• Roman coins and pottery fragments were found here in 1908.
   
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of a Monument to marriage on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.

• Somerby Hall, started in 1660, was the long-time home of the WESTON family.
   
• In 1900, Charles Frederick Weston UNDERWOOD was the resident at Somerby Hall.
   
• In 1919, Frank CHATTERTON was the resident at Somerby Hall.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA066064 (Lat/Lon: 53.543416, -0.392626), Somerby (by Brigg) 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.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Yarborough Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire reports that the parish is in the North Lindsey district of the county.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Brigg petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	58
1831	61
1841	63
1871	127
1881	99
1891	118
1901	101
1911	90

• The children of the parish attended schools at Bigby and Searby.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.