Cockerham, Lancashire Genealogy

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Cockerham

Guide to Cockerham, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See a List of Chapelries in Cockerham Parish.

Cockerham, Lancashire
Type	England Jurisdictions
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Lonsdale
County	Lancashire, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union	Lancaster
Registration District	Lancaster
Records begin
Parish registers: 1595
Bishop's Transcripts: 1673
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Amounderness
Diocese	Manchester
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Amounderness
Location of Archive
Lancashire Archives

Parish History

COCKERHAM (St. Michael), a parish, in the unions of Garstang and Lancaster, partly in the hundred of Amounderness, but chiefly in the hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the chapelry of Ellel,and part of the townships of Cleveley, Forton, and Holleth. Other places in the parish include: Cleveley, Forton, Thurnham with Abbey Farm, Crook Farm, Light House and Brow House, Thurnham, and Holleth.

The village of Cockerham is located on the River Cocker, at the estuary of the River Lune and close by Cockersand Abbey, Lancashire Genealogy Cockerham has lain within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the Middle Ages. It formed a township and parish within the hundred of Lonsdale and district of Lancaster. Between 1894 and 1974, Cockerham lay within the Lancaster Rural District. It is now part of the City Of Lancaster.

Resources

Civil Registration

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.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records

Online Records

• 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
• 1603 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

The parish registers for Cockerham Parish have been transcribed and are available online at the following web sites and the specified range of years:

FS = FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project

FMP = findmypast

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

FREG = FreeReg

COCKERHAM ST MICHAEL PARISH (1595) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1595-1885	1595-1657; 1744-1874	None
LOPC	1595-1893	1595-1874	1595-1812
LBMD	None	1837-1972	None
FMP	None	1595-1837	None
AC	1595-1657	1595-1657	1595-1657
DOLPHINHOLME St John the Evangelist Chapelry (1839) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
AC	None	None	None
ELLEL ST JOHN Chapelry (1726) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1726-1830	1724-1744	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1837-1937	1858-1988	1837-1937
SHIRESHEAD Chapelry (1742) Indexes  - partly also in Garstang Parish (see)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1742-1829	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
AC	None	None	None

These parish and chapel registers of baptisms, marriages and burials are held at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston PR1 2RE, UK. Also, microfilmed copies of these same church registers are held at and may be circulated to the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, USA and its over 4,600 familysearch centers worldwide. 

Cockerham- St Michael Parish Registers
Baptisms-1659-1743- MFPR 1011
Baptisms-1744-1893- MFPR 1012
Baptisms Transcript-1595-1658- 929.3272 C14
Burials-1659-1743- MFPR 1011
Burials-1744-1812- MFPR 1012
Burials-1813-1843- MFPR 1013
Burials Transcript-1595-1657- 929.3272 C14
Marriages-1659-1743- MFPR 1011
Marriages-1744-1840- MFPR 1012
Marriages-1841-1874- MFPR 1013
Marriages Transcript-1595-1657- 929.3272 C14

For possible viewing of some of these original registers of the above please also visit The Manchester Room,  at Greater Manchester County Record Office, Manchester Central Library.
Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk  

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Non-Conformist Churches

• 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Poor Law Unions

Lancaster Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

• 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Cockerham. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692. Includes Thurnham.

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

Cockerham on GENUKI