Thurlby

The Library at Newark on Trent will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Bassingham sub-district of the Newark 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 Germain (sometimes given as "St German").
   
• The church is mostly of Norman and Early English architectural styles.
   
• The church underwent partial restorations in 1843 and 1864.
   
• A photograph of the Anglican church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• And Richard CROFT has a photo of the church on Geo-graph taken in September 2005.
   
• Here is a photo of Saint Germain's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The parish register dates from 1575, but Bishop's transcripts go back only to 1602.
   
• The LFHS has published several indexes for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

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

Thurlby is a parish and small village approximately 9 miles SW of Lincoln and 9 miles NE of Newark on Trent. Swinderby parish borders on the west, Norton Disney parish to the south and the River Witham forms the eastern border. The ancient Foss Way, now the A46 trunk road, cuts through the northwest corner of the parish. The Trent River is about four miles to the west and two branches of the River Witham embrace the parish. The parish covers about 1,840 acres, much of which was a large open moor before the 1800's.

The village of Thurlby abuts the Foss Way to the north. If you are planning a visit:

• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Roman pottery and fragments of the old Roman Foss road have been found in the parish.
   
• Sir Edward Ffrench BROMHEAD (1789-1855) was a member of the Analytical Society at Cambridge and later was George GREEN's patron and George BOOLE's friend. He is buried in the churchyard.
   

• Thurlby Hall  is the principle manor in the parish. In 1871, it was the residence of Sir Benjamin Parnell BROMHEAD, baronet, who succeeded his father, the third baronet, in 1870.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK890618 (Lat/Lon: 53.145949, -0.670645), Thurlby 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 name Thurlby is from the Old Scandinavian Thorulfr+by, or "Farmstead of Thorulfr". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Turoluesbi.
  ["A Dictionary of English Place-Names," A. D. MILLS, Oxford University Press, 1991]

• Here is a partial list of surnames found in the parish in 1871: BELCHER, BROMHEAD, CLAYTON, COLLINGHAM, FISHER, HARSTON, JACKSON, METTAM, MORRIS, ROE, ROGERS and TRIMMINGHAM.
   

• 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 Boothby-Graffoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• For today's district governance, contact the North Kesteven District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (South) petty session hearings.
   
• Care of the poor dates back to at least 1692 when Sir Christopher NEVILE donated £90 which was used to purchase land for their benefit.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union in 1837.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	78
1841	154
1851	156
1861	142
1871	139
1881	118
1891	112
1901	109
1911	110
1971	1,454

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