476 NORT.If SOMERCOTES. LINpOLNSHIRE. [KEIJ.y's Drewery William Smith, farmer, The Lougheed Waiter Henry B.A., M.B., Snowden Emerson, shoe maker Holmes farm B. Ch. surgeon, & medical officer & Squire .A.Ifred, farmer Dunham Robert & William, fanners public vaccinator, Somercoates dis- Squire Edwin, farmer Dnnham J oseph, tailo()r trict, Lough union & surgeon to Stainton Thomas, carrier Easting & Loughton, grocers, drapers, Donna Nook coastguard station Stainton William E. carrier boot & shoe & patent medicine Loughton Joseph (see Easting & Standaloft William, carrier dealers & agents for Provident Life Loughton), grocer &c. cler~ to the Stephenson Charl~, tailor & County Fire offices, Post office burial board .&; sub-postmaster Stubbs Edwin, grazier Eyre David, farmer Loughton Thomas, shopkeeper Stubbs John Jack, market gardener Eyre George, carrier Lowis William~ farmer Stubbs Thomas, farmer Fletcher Jane (Miss), dress maker ~1errikin Edward, grazier Stubbs Thomas Lill, grazie~ Green John, carrier Sational Lifeboat Institution ('branch) Stubbs William, grazier Grundy Geo. Hy. carrier & blacksmith (Gilbert Houlden, hon. sec) Stubbs Young, farmer Harrison Fred Cook, ~hopkeeper North Edmund,Bricklayers' Arms P.H Sutton George, farmer Hewson Edward, farmer, The Old Hall Osbourne William, farmer, Warren Sutton William Standaloft, fellmonge:r Hew son George, farmer • Paddison John, blacksmith Townend John, farmer, The Common Houlden Gilbert, faxmer, & agent to Parkinson Marshall, farmer W almsley John, carrier & farmer • Lloyd's foreign consuls & other Parkinson Robert, farmer & overseer W alm:,;ley J oseph, farme~ underwriters, hon. sec. Donna Nook Pridgeon Edward, saddler W ebster Leak Lot, fanner Life-boat & Shipwrecked Mariners' Pridgeon Emma (Miss), milliner Wells Thomas, carrier & farmer .Association, & district councillor Proud William, farmer Wells Thomas :Francis, farmer Housham .A.lbert, wheelwright Reading Room (Rev. T. Hill, hon. sec) White J ames, farmer Housman John William, butcher Rimington Thomas Edwin, plumber Willey John Thomas, farmer, South ho Hubbaxd George, farm 'bailiff to Isaac Roberts Eliza (Mrs.), grocer Willey Stephen, warrener Sharpley esq Robinson Wm. & James B. farmers Wilson Henry, farmer, Porter's marsh Hnmberstone Thomas, farmer Rowe Brothers, .A.xe & Cleaver P.H. & "\Vilson 'l'homas, farmer Humberstone William Rays, farmer wheelwrights Button Robert, farmer Rowe Elizabeth Jane (Mrs.), dress ma Youhill Susannah J. (Mrs.), Bay Horse Hutton Wil!iam, farmer, The Common Rowe Robert, carpenter P.H Jacklin John, farmer Sands Edward & Thomas, farmers Young Robert, bricklayer King William, cowkeeper Smith ~atthew Henry, tailor Young William, bricklayer Libell George, shopke{!per ·Smith William, farmer SOUTH SOMERCOTES is a pleasant v]lage and have about £34 yearly from the poor's land, nQticed parish, 3~ miles north-west from Saltfleetby station on in North Somercotes; they have also £z a year from the Louth and East Coast branch of the Great Northern Sir R Christopher's charity, and a. yearly rent-charge railway and 8 north-east-by-north from Louth, in the o~ Ios. left by John Lowrie in 1620. These amounts East L:ndsey division o~ the county, parts of Lindsey, are di·stributed in money at Christmas. .Simon ,Conyers Marsh division of Louth Eske hundred, Louth petty Scrope esq. of Danby Hall, Bedale, iSI lord of the manor, sessional division, union and county court distr:ct, rural with the exception of the hamlet of Scupholme, which deanery of Louth Eske and Ludborough No. 2, arch- belongs to Mrs. Nisbet-Hamilton Ogilvy, of Biel, Preston­ deaconry of Stow and diocese of Linroln. The chur-ch kirk, N.B. and these, with Mr. .A.llison, Mr. Robert of St. Mary, called "Queen of the Marsh," is a build- Huulden and Mr. Cartwrighb are the chief landowners. ing of stone of the Early English, Deco.rated and Per- The soil is loamy, and the subsoil clay. The chief crops pendicular periods, consisting of chancel, nave of five are wheat, ba:rley and turnips. The area. is 2,526 acres ; bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with lofty rateable value, £3,599; the population in 1891 wa.s 415. and taper:ng spire, containing 3 bells, dated 1423, and Scupholme iSI a. hamlet, 1! miles wuth-west. beautifully lettered and enriched with foEated work and J>arish Clerk, Dring Rowe Faulkner. grote~que figures: the spire, the only one in the mal'!Sh Post Oflice.-Samuel Dixon, sub-postmaster. Letters district except Lout,h, serves as a sea mark: the. ancient through Louth arrive ab 9. 15 a. m. & a.re dispatched chancel screen and some Early benches remain : the at + 10 p.m. week days only. Posts! orders are issued tower is Early English and has a westeTn doorway of here, but not. paid. NC)rth 1SC)mercotes is the nearest the Perpendicular period: the ~ont is panelled and carved money order & telegraph office with emblems of the Passion: in 1893 the roof of the nave was renewed and the interior seated with chairs: there Church School (mixed), built in 1846 & enlarged in are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year l$$8. 1871, at a cost of about £zoo; it will now hold 120 The living is a. rectory, average tithe rent-charge £ 412, children; average attendance, 58; & is in part •sup- gro-ss yearly value £.457• including z8! acres of glebe portedl by £zo yearly from the trustees of the poor'& and residence, in tlle patronage Qf the Chancellor of land; the ~hildren of this place have also a. right to the Duchy of LancastRr, and held ,s:nce 1 as6 by the Rev. the benefits of the free li!chool at North Somercotes; Peverel Johnson M. .A.. Qf Brasenose College, Oxford. Miss Mary Bullock, mistress Here is a Wesoleyan chapel, built in 186g, and a Free Carriel'IS to Louth.-Peter Sizer, wed. & fri. & John :Methodist chapel, built in 1854· 'l)le poor of this parish Thompson, every wed. & sat Bancroft Jesse Wil:ows, The Hall 'Freshney Thomas Bennett, fa-rmer,The Palmer Edmund Belasyse, !farmer Johnson Rev. Peverel M. .A.. Rectory Grange Parker Frederick Wil:iam, carpenter North Mrs Glover John, farmer, Fen houses Parsons .Allison, farmer Wells Mrs Glover Witl.iam, farmer Pinder Thomas, farme~ Graves John, farmer, The Ings Reed John George, bricklayer COMMERCIAL. Graves Roobert, farmer Richardson Thomas, farmer Andrew Willi.am, farmer Greenwood Geo. Chatte-rton, grazier Rollinson William, farmer .A.tkin George, grazier Henage .A.:fred, news agent Sands Josep~, insurance agent .A.tkins GeOTge, farmer, Mill lane Houlden Robert, farmer, landowner & Sea·ton 'l'bomas, \farmer Bntch&" John, grazier district council~or, Scupholme Sizer Peter, shopke{!per & carrier Cook Charles, farmer Hoyes John, farmer Smith Thomas, farmer Dixon Samuel, shopkeeper, Post off Hoyes William, farmer Spooncer Thomas, faTmer Drewery Smith, farmer Jenney .A.rthm, Macksmith Stubbs Christopher L. farmer Dunham William, grazier Lacy Edwin, Blue Bell P.H Thompson John, caxrier Faulkner George, blacksmith Laughton George, farmer , Wells Thomas, farmer, The Rookel'y Fox David, shepherd & surveyor of Michael Arthur, farmer Wi:son William, carpenter & registrar highways ~Iichael Jacob, beer retailer of marriages for Louth union Freshney Marwood, farmer, Fen hos Needoom William, farmer SOMERSBY is a oSIIIUlll parish, 7 miles north-eaiSt from style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a low Hornca~Lincolnshire section o-f the Great Northern railway and and containing 2 bells : there are some memorials to 6 west from Spilsby, in the South Lindsey division of the BurtHorncastle small mural brass in the chancel, with kneeling effigy, union, petty sessional division and county court d:.s­ to George Littlebnry, ob. 161::1: in the porch is a stoup: trict1 rural deanery of Hill No. I, archdeaconry of Stow the organ was placed in the church in September, 1895, and diocese of L·ncoln. The church of St. Marga.ret tJt a cost of £7o, as a memorial to .A.lfred, Lord Tennysou, is an ancient building of sandston~ in the Perpendicular poet laureate, who was born a~ Somersby, and baptised