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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

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Thonock

Warning: Thonock is NOT an ancient parish of Lincolnshire. It was formed in 1894 or 1895 as a civil parish. It was disolved 80 years later.

Census

• The parish was in the Gainsborough sub-district of the Gainsborough Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Church History

• I have no Church History for Thonock.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes for the Corringham Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Gainsborough sub-district of the Gainsborough Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began, for this parish, in Sept., 1894.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Thonock is a parish about 2 miles north of Gainsborough. The parish covers about 1,040 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Byautomobile, take the A159 arterial north out of Gainsborough. It passes thru the heart of Thonock.
  
  
• There is a Golf Club in Thonock. Tele: 01427 613088.
  
  
• See our touring page for more sources.
  
  

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Manors

• Thonock Hall, the seat of Sir Hickman B. Bacon in 1912, is a plain mansion of brick and stone. It had been a HICKMAN family seat for centuries.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 8292.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The civil parish was created in September, 1895, from part of Gainsborough parish when the hamlet of Thonock was incorporated as a parish.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Well Wapentake (WellHundred) in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• In the 1900s the parish was in the Corringham Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• The civil parish was disolved in 1974.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union when the parish was created.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school at Morton.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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