Great Coates

• Brian CHESTER has provided a Monument Inscription lookup feature at his website for St. Nicholas Church.(JB)
• Brian CHESTER has provided an example of his work in this FISKE monument from the graveyard:

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
• In an 1890 re-organization, 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:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas (the spelling is often given as "Nicolas").
• The church tower dates from the 15th century.
• The church chancel was restored in 1865.
• The church seats 200.
• There is a photograph of the Anglican parish church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of the church tower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
• Here is a photo of St. Nicholas Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1653.
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Wesleyan Methodists formed a group here in 1759 with William BUTTRES as leader. John BAGLEY took over in 1849. A 99-year land lease by the Lord of the Manor allowed the Wesleyans to build their chapel in 1881. It opened in August of that year.
• The Primitive Methodists built their chapel in 1895. Check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of one of the Methodist Chapels on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
• In an 1890 re-organization, 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.

This parish and small village are in the north of Lincolnshire, 4 miles from Great Grimsby and 157 miles north of London. The parish borders on the River Humber to the northeast and a stream on the south and south-east called the Freshney. The parish covers about 2,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• David NOCHOLSON provides a report on his ancestors' emigration from Great Coates to Canada. The format is PDF.

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

You can see the administrative areas in which Great Coates has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• In the early 1900s, two-fifths of the parish land was pasturage.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA238103 (Lat/Lon: 53.574977, -0.132179), Great Coates which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• 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.

• "Coats" or "Cotes" is an ancient word for cottages.

• 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 Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, as well as the 1913 edition, places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Lindsey division of the county.
• In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was abolished and most of the land amalgamated into Healing Civil Parish.
• You may contact the Great Coates Village Council regarding civic or political issues, but they will NOT do family history lookups for you.
• District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.

• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
• In an 1890 district re-organization, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty session courts.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	208
1831	235
1841	245
1871	228
1881	245
1891	217
1911	364

• A National School was built here in 1872 to hold 50 children.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.