Can anyone please tell me what newspaper would have been most likely to carry news about North Owersby during the period 1835 - 1901 and Usselby after that? Happy hunting! Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) Now in Rochester, NY, USA

Start here for the UK as a whole. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/news/newsplan/newsplan.html For Lincolnshire, scroll down and click East Midlands. Click search the list. For North Owersby and Usselby (for where the nearest large town seems - just! - to be Market Rasen), in the 'town/county' type Market Rasen. Check the dates - it's no good clicking on the Standard as that didn't begin publishing until 1983. <g> Click on a title, and you then get a list of the libraries which hold copies of that paper, the years held, and the format in which they're held (original or film). I suspect that other counties' libraries links are more efficient than Lincolnshire's which at the moment consist of giving you details of every mobile library in the county - I can't even get the details for Lincoln Central Library unless I type the name into the search box, which is a stupid state of affairs. Market Rasen library http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/OrganisationDetails.aspx?orgcode=319407 Lincoln Central Library http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/OrganisationDetails.aspx?orgcode=319374 I would email Market Rasen library just to confirm that events in those villages were more likely to be reported in the Market Rasen newspaper than one published in Caister. Pam Proud to be a member of Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/ On 05/12/2011 01:35, Diana Robinson wrote: > Can anyone please tell me what newspaper would have been most likely to > carry news about North Owersby during the period 1835 - 1901 and Usselby > after that? > > Happy hunting! > > Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) > Now in Rochester, NY, USA > > > ------------------------------- >

I have found this site to be very helpful both for the US and UK. Norm http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

Are folk forgetting that many (but not all) of the '19th Century British Library Newspapers' are available online for free via the Gale Group who have made them available to participating UK county council public libraries using an individual's library card number to access same. For those UK and non UK residents who don't have access to a library card I feel sure that in the past this mailing list has posted details of one UK county council library service that offered a online virtual library card giving free access to the online newspapers - was it Lancashire or a library in that county? Regarding 'which newspaper to seek out for a particular place'. Don't forget a lot of the news of the day was syndicated. For example I have interests in north Lincolnshire and have found out-of-county papers such as 'The Hull Packet' and 'York Herald' carry Lincolnshire items. Indeed searching for 'North Owersby' produced the following piece appearing in the The Morning Post (London, England) edition of Monday, 5th December 1842 which had been previously reported in the York Herald...... 'A Wife Killed by Her Husband - On Sunday last, a tragic event took place at North Gullum Farm, in the parish of North Owersby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire....'<snip> The report goes on to state that a labourer named BRITCLIFFE assaulted his pregnant wife during a heated argument resulting in her death a few hours later - a coroners inquest later held at Caistor returned a verdict of 'Manslaughter' - BRITCLIFFE being committed the Castle, Lincoln pending trial at the next assizes. The newspaper report concludes with the following observation.... 'A family of nine children are left to mourn the loss of a mother and a father'. The Lincs. Fam. Hist. Society Inquests CD1 identies this couple as John and Sarah BRITCIFFE. The 1841 census for North Owersby (HO107; Piece 641; Book: 16; Civil Parish: Owersby; County: Lincolnshire; Enumeration District: 11; Folio: 8; Page: 11) lists the following all born in Lincs; John BRITLIFFE . 40 . Ag Lab Sarah do . 40 Elizabeth do . 14 George do . 13 Robert do . 10 Ann do . 7 Mary do . 5 William do . 4 Jane do . 2 Joseph do . 7 mths William FISH . 2 I have no family connection with this family. David Meredith - Nottingham -----Original Message----- From: Diana Robinson Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 1:35 AM To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [LIN] Newspapers covering North Owersby Can anyone please tell me what newspaper would have been most likely to carry news about North Owersby during the period 1835 - 1901 and Usselby after that? Happy hunting! Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) Now in Rochester, NY, USA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Remember, too, that Lincolnshire newspapers are listed at: http://ww.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/papers.html It's also hard to keep current with all the mergers, closings, rebrandings, etc. in the industry, so if you find any information that is out of date on that web page, let me know.     Lou ________________________________ From: David Meredith <david.meredith@live.co.uk> To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Newspapers covering North Owersby Are folk forgetting that many (but not all) of the '19th Century British Library Newspapers' are available online for free via the Gale Group who have made them available to participating UK county council public libraries using an individual's library card number to access same. -snip-