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- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1851 | H.O. 107 / 2111 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2379 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3399 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2606 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Oswald.
- The church was originally built in the 13th century.
- The church was rebuilt in 1857.
- The church chancel was built in 1874.
- The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- The church seats about 161.
- There is a photograph of Saint Oswald's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site, taken by Paul FENWICK.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1845. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Strubby is both a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, about 4 miles north of Alford and 10 miles south-east of Louth. The parish covers just over 2,000 acres and includes the hamlet of >Woodthorpe, nearly two miles south of Strubby village.
The village is in the Lincolnshire Wolds. If you are planning a visit:
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Strubby to another place.
- Woodthorpe Hall, in the hamlet of Woodthorpe, is a large brick Tudor mansion, formerly the seat of the BALLETT (BULLETT) family.
- Woodthorpe Hall is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF453824 (Lat/Lon: 53.318672, 0.179901), Strubby 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.
- This list was contributed by John READMAN of the UK.
- MEN OF STRUBBY WITH WOODTHORPE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 1918
Surname | Given names | Rank | Unit or vessel | Notes |
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BALDOCK | George | Sergeant | 9th Durham Light Infantry | |
BURMAN | Arthur | Private | 2nd Lincs Regiment | |
CRAGG | Stanley P. | Private | 8th Lincs Regiment | Died |
FARROW | Reg. Asher | Private | 9th Durham Light Infantry | |
HOLMES | Chas. Elsom | Private | 9th Lincs Regiment | |
KELK | Julian | Lieut. | Bedfordshire Yeomanry | |
LARDER | Ernest | Private | 3/4 Lincs. Regiment | Died |
PARSONS | Robt. Wm. | Sapper | Royal Engineers | |
SKINN | James | Private | 2nd Leicester Regiment | |
THORNDIKE | Chas. Wm. | Private | West Yorks Regiment | |
VEAR | David Henry | Private | 1st Lincs Regiment | |
WATTAM | Charles | Private | Coldstream Guards | |
WATTAM | George | Gunner | Royal Garrison Artillery | |
WATTAM | James | Private | Sherwood Foresters | |
WATTAM | Tom | Private | 2nd Lincs Regiment | Died |
- You can see these names repeated on the Roll of Honour.
- The name Strubby is from the Old Scandinavian Struthr+by, meaning "village of a man called Struthr". In the 1086 Domesday book, the village is given as Strobi.
A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey district of the county.
- The parish is small enough that it has a Parish Meeting in place of a formal Parish Council to decide civic and politial issues.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- In 1728, Thomas WILLIAMSON left a yearly rent-charge of £2 and 12 shillings out of a farm at Cumberworth to be distributed to the poor in bread.
- The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1840.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish was part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings.
- A parochial school (Public Elementary School) was erected in 1878 to hold up to 40 children.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.