Pennington, Lancashire Genealogy

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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

Parish History

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.

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.

Church Records

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.

Census records

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

Ulverston 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, Pennington. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692.

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

FamilySearch