Searby cum Ownby

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

• 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 at Searby is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
   
• There has been no Anglican church at Owmsby hamlet.
   
• There has been a church at Searby since at least 1441.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1832-33 of white brick with stone dressings.
   
• The church was restored in 1860.
   
• It is a small building and seats only 120.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• A photograph of St. Nicholas church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Nicholas church, taken by (and copyright of) Ron COLE:
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
   
• The Family History Centre in London has the Bishop's Transcripts covering 1562 - 1820.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The parish included a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built prior to 1896. The Methodist Church has a Facebook page and is still active.
   
• Check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
   
• 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.

Searby parish is 4 miles north-west of Caistor and 5 miles south-east of Brigg. Grasby parish lies to the south-east, with North Kelsey parish to the south-west. The parish covers about 2,460 acres and includes the hamlet of Owmby.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1084 north out of Caistor. The road passes just east of the village about four miles from Caistor.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Village Sign on geo-graph, taken in May, 2018.
   
• Check out our touring page.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Searby cum Ownby to another place.

The vicar of the parish built a shelter for residents who were waiting for a wagon or cart to pass thru the village. Richard CROFT has a photograph of this 1866 Waggoners' Rest on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2009.

• There was a Manor House here. In 1881 it was occupied by William H. COATES, a farmer.
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA075056 (Lat/Lon: 53.536023, -0.379543), Searby cum Ownby 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.

• Inside the parish church, underneath a bronze relief of the Last Supper, is a brass table with the names of six men who fell in World War I.

The names from the memorial are:

1. Balding, Charles, pte. 2nd Lincs. regt. Son of Mrs. Thomas BALDING.
2. Balding, John Thomas, pte, 1/5th Lincs. Regt. son of Mr. and Mary Ann BALDING.
3. Brumpton, George, pte. 6th Northamptonshire Regt. Son of George and Fanny BRUMPTON (nee EYRE). George was born in nearby Limber, LIN, circa 1900.
4. King, John Henry, lcpl. 1st/5th Lincs. Regt. Son of John and Fanny KING.
5. Tuplin, William Parish, pte. 1st Lincs. Regt.
6. Vessey, Ernest Luke, pte. 6th Lincs. Regt. bpt. in Walesby, LIN, on 31 Dec 1889, son of Joseph and Mary Ann (nee LACEY).

For a list of names on the war memorial plaques, see the Memorials site.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the south division of the ancient Yarborough Wapentake in the West Lindsey district and parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire reports that the parish, perhaps erroneously, was in the North Lindsey division of the county. Kelly's 1913 edition does the same.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed (or tasked) to assist with family history research.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	244
1831	252
1841	234
1871	261
1881	217
1891	228
1901	214
1911	189

• A school was built here in 1854-55 to hold up to 60 children. The school was closed by 1912 and the children of the parish were attending school in Grasby.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.