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- The parish was in the Burgh 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. |
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1861 | R.G. 9 / 2376 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3393B |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2604 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
- The church was rebuilt in 1870.
- There is a photograph of St. Peter's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site under "more Lincolnshire".
- Here is a photo of the Church of St. Peter taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1724.
- 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 Burgh sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
This small village and parish lie 5 miles east of Spilsby. Candlesby parish lies to the west and Bratoft parish lies to the south. The parish covers only about 675 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the village lies near the intersection of the A158 trunk road out of Skegness and the A1028 trunk road.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Gunby to another place.
- Gunby Hall was built in 1700 of red brick. The MASSINGBERD family has long been associated with the manor and the parish.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF469668 (Lat/Lon: 53.177903, 0.196295), Gunby 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.
General Sir Archibald Armar MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD resided in the parish around 1930. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
- Gunby is from Old Scandinavian for "village of Gunnhildr", and the name appeared as Gunelby in records from 1066 and 1069.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].
- The parish was in the ancient Wold division of the Candleshoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- In Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, the parish is placed, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey district of the county.
- You can contact the local Colsterworth and District Parish Council regarding civic or political issues. They are NOT staffed to assist you with family history questions.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spilsby petty session hearings every other week.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Grantham Poor Law Union in January 1836.
- The children of this parish attended school in Welton le Marsh.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.