Genealogy Chat

Hi, does anybody know where i can get an old map of lincolnshire so that i can work out where places where in relation to each other.This would help a lot with census searches. Thanks. Chris

Hi Christine There are a few on e-bay Sheila

thanks for that Sheila, never thought to look there, will have a look Chris

Hi Chris, I'm from Lincolnshire so if you tell me which places you're looking for I might be able to help - I can't guarantee it though because Lincs is a big county and I don't know all of it. Michael

Cant you look at their family history society site - most of them have maps.

Many thanks for everyones help. The place names I have are as follows: Limber, Lout, Caister, Mablethorpe, Sloothby, Keelby, Grimsby, Barnetby-le-wold, Navenby and Northcoates. If anyone could confirm that they are all in the same general area it would be appreciated. Chris

taking Louth as the centre point most places seem to be within 15-25 miles, with Navenby being 35 miles away. AA route finder allows you to enter start and end locations and gives you the distance between the 2 points, admitedly using todays roads bot close enough to the distances involved for most of our familys i think. Joan

There are some useful map websites - Multimap & UKstreetmap for a start. OS as well. There's also a historical maps site with C19 OS maps. And there is a company which sells reprints of old OS maps. Christine

ann, Yes I do live in Lincolnshire and I am sure that many of the roads, certinaly where i live have pot holes older than most of my rellies :-).. Pity non of my family started out in this area as i'm sure I'd be walking on the same surfaces they did!! Joan

Hi, also from Lincolnshire. Try the 'genuki ' site, the Linconshire section is particularly good and gives you brief histories, which district places and parishes are in and how to get there now. I am also a memner of the LFHS for the princely sum of £10 a year you get 4 excellent magazines and I have found everyone every helpful with information etc. Jennifer

I've lived in Lincs all my life (apart from having now moved out for uni), but that's only 20 1/4 years so probably not quite as much use. My mum and dad moved there a few years after they married, and Mum remembers Grandma commenting that that was a coincidence because that was Grandpa's mum's family came from (which they didn't know when they moved). When I started out researching the family, I asked her about them and she said she thought they came from Louth or thereabouts. I couldn't find any trace of them there, so I thought that maybe, especially considering it wasn't her own family, it was possible that she'd made a mistake. I expanded my search to the whole county, and found that she had - they weren't, as she had thought, right up at the opposite end of the county from us. They had lived barely twenty miles away, in the villages around Boston. All the placenames were familiar to me, but two in particular stood out: Frieston and Wrangle. The reason that they stood out was that they are the locations of two of the checkpoints along the route of the Boston to Skegness marathon. I've done that marathon five times; each time I was probably passing within a mile or two of where my ancestors lived, without realising it. Wow.