Crowle Lincolnshire & Yorkshire Family History Guide
Crowle is an Ancient Parish mostly in Lincolnshire and partly in Yorkshire.
Status: Ancient Parish
Riding: West Riding
Parish church: St. Oswald
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1561
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Nonconformists include:Â Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists
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Adjacent Parishes
- Adlingfleet
- Goole
- Thorne
- Swinefleet
- Althorpe with Keadby
- Belton
- Eastoft
- Epworth
- Hatfield
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CROWLE, a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in the district of Thorne, and county of Lincoln.
The town stands on the old river Don, adjacent to the Stainforth and Keadby canal, the Doncaster and Keadby railway, and the boundary with Yorkshire, 6¾ miles E by S of Thorne; has a station on the railway and a post office under Bawtry; is a seat of petty sessions.
It was formerly a market-town; and now has fairs on every alternate Monday from March till May, on the last Monday of May, and on 22 Nov.
The township includes also Ealand; and bears the name of Crowle-with-Ealand. Real property, £13,575. Pop., 2,648. Houses, 633.
The parish includes likewise the township of Eastoft. Acres, 7,350. Real property, £16,221. Pop., 3,182. Houses, 751. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £850. Patron, the Rev. W. Duncombe. The church is good; and there are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.
A school has £37 from endowment; and other charities £24.
The sub-district includes also Althorpe parish. Acres, 12,810. Pop., 4,498. Houses, 994.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch Historical Records – Lincolnshire
FamilySearch Historical Records – Yorkshire
FamilySearch
Cemeteries
Baptist Church – Crowle : monumental and memorial inscriptions Author: Garner, Stephen R.
Census
Census returns for Crowle, 1841-1891
Church history
Know your parish church : Crowle Author: Ramery, Don
Church Records
Brace’s transcripts, 1598-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Crowle (Lincolnshire)
Church records, 1598-1622 Author: Baptist Church (Lincolnshire)
Church registers, 1939-1942 Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church (Fieldside, Crowle, Lincolnshire)
Computer printout of Crowle, Lincs., Eng
Voting registers
Register of persons entitled to vote … within the Thorne Polling district
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
- Civil Registration District: Thorne
- Probate Court: Pre-1834 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Stow, Post-1833 – Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Manlake
- Poor Law Union: Thorne
- Hundred: Manley
- Province: Yorkshire: York; Lincolnshire: Canterbury