South Owersby

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

Alternatively, you can use the Market Rasen Library as a resource, also.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen 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 web page author could find no history of a church in this parish.
   
• Many residents of this parish attended Anglican services in North Owersby parish or in Kirkby-cum-Osgodby parish.

• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen 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 small village and parish are in the north of Lincolnshire about 5 miles north of Market Rasen. The parish covered about 1,440 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Watch for the Village Sign, here photographed by J. HANNAN-BRIGGS in July, 2014.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• You might like the 1906 inch-to-the-mile map of North East Lincolnshire.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF063936 (Lat/Lon: 53.428253, -0.401087), South Owersby 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.

• For centuries, South Owersby was just a township in the larger Owersby parish. It was formed as a separate parish between 1842 and 1881.
   
• The parish was in the West division (and, later, the North division) of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In April, 1936, the Civil Parish was dissolved and all 1,446 acres were amalgamated into a new "Owersby Civil Parish."
   
• The citizens are now served by the Owersby Parish Council, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with Family History searches.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	89
1831	110
1841	124
1871	106
1881	92
1891	71
1901	87
1911	105

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