Crowle, Lincolnshire Genealogy

England   Lincolnshire

Parish History
Crowle is a small town and civil parish on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire.

Crowle St Oswald is an Ancient Parish which is extensive and includes part of the neighbouring West Riding of Yorkshire within its boundary. The parish includes the eponymous market town and Ealand, Tetley, Haxey and Fieldside.

Eastoft, Lincolnshire is a former chapelry of the parish.

The church is believed to have replaced an earlier wooden Saxon church which stood on the site and the dedication to Oswald (slain in 642) suggests that the Saxon church was ancient. The present church retains some Saxon features and is a Norman church which was restored in 1884 by A.S.Ellis of London.

St Oswald church has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage (see web site below)

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Crowle sub-district of Thorne registration district.

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
The digitisation of parish records for the county now offers images via the Lincs to the past website (July 2011). Use advanced search terms at Search Lincs to the past to search for available images for parish registers and other records for this parish with images. Advance search terms Crowle Par 1 will identify available images.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Thorne Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lincolnshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.

listing for St Oswald