Stainby

The Library at Grantham will prove useful in your research.

Maigheach-gheal has a photograph of St. Peter's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.

• The parish was in the Colsterworth sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• In 1891, the parish became part of the Grantham South sub-district of the Grantham 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 Peter.
   
• The church was thoroghly restored in 1865.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• Brian GREEN has a nice photograph of St. Peter's Church Tower on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2006.
   
• Here is a photo of Saint Peter's Church taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish registers exist from 1653 (some sources say 1561).
   
• Boyd's marriage index covers the period from 1561 - 1837.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Beltisloe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Colsterworth sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• In 1891, the parish became part of the Grantham South sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Stainby is both a small village and a parish south of Grantham and 7 miles west of Corby. It lies between Colsterworth parish to the east and Buckminster parish in neighborhing Leicestershire to the west, with Gunby parish to the south. The parish covers about 1,500 acres.

There is a hamlet of "Stainsby" in Ashby Puerorum parish near Horncastle.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B676 arterial road off of the A1 motorway west out of Colsterworth for about 2 miles.
   
• Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013. It appears they could use your artistic talent and marketing skills to create a more inviting sign.
   
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK910222 (Lat/Lon: 52.789709, -0.652019), Stainby 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.

• Stainby is from Old Scandinavian for "village of Stigandi", and the name appeared as Stigandebi 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 Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Betisloe Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• The parish was also within the Soke of Grantham.
   
• In April, 1931, this Civil Parish was abolished to create a new Civil Parish of "Gunby and Stainby".
   
• For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spittlegate (Grantham) petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1773.
   
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Grantham Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	108
1831	186
1841	189
1851	180
1861	168
1871	163
1891	141
1911	134

• The Public Elementary School was built in 1840 to serve Stainby and Gunby parishes. It could hold 60 children, but average attendance was much less.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Former Shool at Stainby on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2019.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.