Great Coates (Great Cotes)

Cemeteries

• Brian Chester has provided a Monument Inscription lookup feature at his website for St. Nicholas Church.
  
  
• Brian Chester has provided an example of his work in this FISKE monument from the graveyard:
  
  

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Census

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
  
  
• In an 1890 re-organization, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas (the spelling is often given as "Nicolas").
  
  
• The church tower dates from the 15th century.
  
  
• The church chancel was restored in 1865.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  
  
• There is a photograph of St. Nicholas church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
  
  
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of the church tower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
  
  
• Here is a photo of St. Nicholas Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1653.
  
  
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1881, and the Primitive Methodists built their chapel in 1895. Check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
  
  
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of one of the Methodist Chapels on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
  
  
• In an 1890 re-organization, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This parish and small village are in the north of Lincolnshire, 4 miles from Great Grimsby and 157 miles north of London. The parish borders on the River Humber to the northeast and a stream on the south and southeast called the Freshney. The parish covers about 2,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.
  
  

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History

• In the early 1900s, two-fifths of the parish land was pasturage.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TA 2310.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• "Coats" or "Cotes" is an ancient word for cottages.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, as well as the 1913 edition, places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Lindsey division of the county.
  
  
• In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was abolished and most of the land amalgamated into Healing Civil Parish.
  
  
• You may contact the Great Coates Village Council regarding civic or political issues, but they will NOT do family history lookups for you.
  
  
• District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
  
  
• In an 1890 district re-organization, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty session hearings.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	208
1831	235
1841	245
1871	228
1881	245
1891	217
1911	364

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Schools

• A National School (Public Elementary School) was built here in 1872 to hold 50 children.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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