Worlaby by Brigg, Lincolnshire Genealogy

Guide to Worlaby by Brigg, Lincolnshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
"WORLABY (St. Clement), a parish in the union of Glandford-Brigg, N. division of the wapentake of Yarborough, parts of Lindsay, county of Lincoln, 5½ miles (N. by E.) from Glandford-Brigg. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Worlaby by Brigg St Clement is an Ancient Parish.

Worlaby is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire and is six miles south of Barton on Humber. It is one of five "Low Villages" South Ferriby, Lincolnshire Horkstow, Lincolnshire Saxby All Saints, Lincolnshire Bonby, Lincolnshire being the others which are between Brigg, Lincolnshire and the Humber estuary.

Civil Registration
This parish was in the Brigg sub-district of Glanford Brigg registration district. Glanford Brigg 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 Worlaby by Brigg Par 1 will identify available images.

Material deposited at Lincolnshire Archives, St Rumbold Street,Lincoln,Lincolnshire,LN2 5AB,England Enquiries: lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk The website enables you to view a PDF file for all records held for each parish as part of continuing efforts to provide an online catalogue

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Lincolnshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union, Lincolnshire

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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Worlaby/