Healing
- The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- In 1890, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3416 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2620 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul.
- The church is listed as "ancient", but I could find no date of construction.
- The church seats between 80 and 102 people.
- There is a photograph of the Anglican parish church on the Wendy Parkinson Church Photos web site.
- Here is a photo of Saints Peter and Paul's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1571.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a 1641/2 Protestation Return for the Haverstoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1899. For information and assistance in researching this church, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- In 1890, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Healing is both a village and a parish sitting 4 miles west of Grimsby. The parish covers about 2,500 acres, but was much smaller in the 19th century, covering only 1,335 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- The only library service in town is a mobile service which visits once a week. Use the Library in Grimsby for your research.
- The present Healing Manor on Stallingborough road dates back to the early 1700s.
- Healing Manor was the residence of John MAUNSELL-RICHARDSON in 1900.
- See the Healing Manor website for current information.
- The national grid reference is TA 2110.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The name derives from the Old English Haegel+ingas, meaning "settlement of the family or followers of a man named Haegel". It appears as Hegelinga in the 1086 Domesday Book.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district and in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 and 1913 Directories of Lincolnshire report, perhaps erroneously, that the parish is in the North Lindsey division of the county.
- In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was enlarged by 593 acres at the abolition of Great Coates Civil Parish.
- The Healing Parish Council meets at the Village Hall. They will not do family history lookups for you. The council does publish a monthly "Village News" which is distributed to residents of Healing.
- The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1839.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
- In an 1890 reorganisation, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
94 |
| 1831 |
102 |
| 1841 |
90 |
| 1871 |
102 |
| 1881 |
117 |
| 1891 |
118 |
| 1901 |
227 |
| 1911 |
514 |
| 1921 |
746 |
- The children of the parish attended school in Stallingborough and Great Coates.
- A Public Elementary School was built here in 1910 for 102 children.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.
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[Last updated: 20-October-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
