Pennington, Lancashire Genealogy
England 
Lancashire Lancashire Parishes
Guide to Pennington, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Pennington, Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Lonsdale |
| County | Lancashire |
| Poor Law Union | Ulverston |
| Registration District | Ulverstone |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1613 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1689 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Furness and Cartmel |
| Diocese | Chester |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries |
| Location of Archive | |
| Lancashire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
PENNINGTON (St Michael), a parish, in the union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 1½ mile west by southwest of Ulverston. The church was erected in 1826. The modern parish in the Diocese of Carlisle.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Online Records
- 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
Pennington St Michael's parish registers have to a certain extent been transcribed and made accessible online at the following websites and ranges of years:
| AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£) | |||||
| FMP = findmypast (£) | |||||
| FREG = FreeReg | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
| LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk | |||||
| LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk |
| PENNINGTON ST MICHAEL PARISH (1612) iNDEXES | |||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
| FS | 1613-1867 | 1616-1866 | 1814-1838 | ||
| LOPC | None | None | None | ||
| LBMD | None | 1837-1955 | None | ||
| FMP | None | 1616-1837 | None | ||
| FREG | 1612-1702 | 1612-1702 | 1612-1702 | ||
| PENNINGTON CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry (1854) Indexes | |||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
| FS | None | None | None | ||
| LOPC | None | None | None | ||
| LBMD | None | 1855-1950 | None | ||
| FMP | None | None | None | ||
Original Records
The original Pennington St Michael's parish registers and the chapelry registers of Christ Church are housed at the Cumbria Record Office, 140 Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness LA 14 1XW.
Copies of original parish registers and Bishop's transcripts along with other church records for Pennington St Michael's are available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. and its satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide.
Non Conformist Records[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
- 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[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. 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
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Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire
Probate records
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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[edit | edit source]
- 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Pennington. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692.
Maps and Gazetteers
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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., [A Topographical Dictionary of England] (1848), pp. 545-549. Adapted. Date accessed: 1 October 2013.
