Crowle Lincolnshire & Yorkshire Family History Guide

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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: Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists

Adjacent Parishes

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

Bishop’s transcripts for Crowle, 1598-1841 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Crowle (Lincolnshire)

Brace’s transcripts, 1598-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Crowle (Lincolnshire)

Church records for Bourne’s Chapel, Crowle, 1927-1964 Author: Bourne’s Chapel (Crowle, Lincolnshire : Primitive Methodist)

Church records, 1598-1622 Author: Baptist Church (Lincolnshire)

Church registers, 1939-1942 Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church (Fieldside, Crowle, Lincolnshire)

Crowle church wardens accounts 1790-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Crowle (Lincolnshire)

Parish register extracts for the parish church of Crowle (Lincoln), 1561-1804 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Crowle (Lincolnshire)

Parish registers for Crowle, 1561-1973 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Crowle (Lincolnshire)

Record of members, 1845-1861 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Crowle Branch (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