Hawkshead, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Hawkshead, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Hawkshead, Lancashire
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Lonsdale
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Ulverston
Registration District	Ulverstone
Records begin
Parish registers: 1568
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

HAWKSHEAD (St Michael), a market-town and a parish, in the union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 28 miles north by northwest of Lancaster, comprising the townships of Claife, Hawkshead, and Monk-Coniston with Skelwith, and the chapelry of Satterthwaite. Other places in the parish include: Borwick, Claife, Dale Park, Field Head, Gallowbarrow, Upper Claife, Grizedale, Hawkeshead with Monk Coniston and Skelwith, Henakin, Lower Claife, Monk Coniston and Skelwith, and Graythwaite. In the hamlet of Hawkshead Hill is a small place of worship for Baptists which began in 1709. Methodists also have a chapel, built around 1862, and Quakers by the year 1658 in Colthouse, 3-4 miles away.

Here is a list of chapelries or chapels of ease built within the boundary of Hawkshead St Michael's Parish (as of 1848; see "Church Records" below for others):

• Brathay - 1837
• Finsthwaite - 1726
• Satterthwaite - 1766

To view a further historical summary of this ancient parish, visit The Ancient Church of St Michael and All Saints page (also see the footnote below).

Records Resources

Cemeteries

The Family History Library's British collection has monumental transcriptions of Hawkshead parish and for the Society of Friends old burial ground.

Census

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.

Civil Registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths - 1837 to the Present

Read about England Civil Registration (vital records) of birth, marriages and deaths on the England main page.

Online Indexes

There are two separate (free) indexes available for Lancashire civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. One index covers all registrations nation-wide, and one index covers the copies of the local registration district office's certificate copies for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, as follows:

• FreeBMD - an online (free) index to the certificates held at the General Registrar's Office, formerly in London, now in Solihull, Merseyside, UK. The years currently covered in this index include July, 1837 to at least 1940.
• LancashireBMD - an online index (free) to the local superintendant's registrar of births, marriages and deaths for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, for the following range of years and their events: births 1837-1974; marriages 1837-2010; deaths 1837-1975.
• Lancashire-OPC.org.uk provides numerous parish and chapel transcriptions online (free) for the post-1837 to 1910 period.

Indexes

FamilySearch's Family History Library British collections holds the quarterly indexes of births, marriages and deaths from July, 1837 to 1983 in microform media.

Church Records

Online Records

• 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index

Hawkeshead parish registers have been mostly transcribed and/or indexed and published online at the following web sites:

AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)

FMP = findmypast (£)

FREG = FreeReg

FS = FamilySearch.org

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

HAWKSHEAD ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS PARISH (1568) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1568-1901	1568-1706; 1754-1899	None
LOPC	1568-1864	1568-1974	1568-1864
LBMD	None	None	None
FMP	None	1568-1837	None
AC	1568-1837	1568-1837	1568-1837
FREG	1569-1662, 1705-1837	1568-1837	1568-1837
SATTERTHWAITE ALL SAINTS Chapelry (1776) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1776-1899	None	1867-1905
LOPC	1766-1903	None	1867-1905
AC	Various Yrs	Various Yrs	Var. Yrs
BRATHAY HOLY TRINITY Chapelry (1837) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1837-1885	1856 (only)	1838-1884
LOPC	1837-1884	1856 (only)	1837-1884
AC	None	None	None
FINSTHWAITE Chapelry (1776) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1726-1882	1727-1901	None
LOPC	1726-1840	1727-1839	None
AC	Various Yrs	Various Yrs	Various Yrs
LOW WRAY ST MARGARET Chapelry (1856) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1742-1829	1866;1873-1901	None
LOPC	None	1866-1977	None
AC	None	None	None
SAWREY ST PETER Chapelry (1870) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1870-1902	1873-1900	None
LOPC	1870-1943	1873-1978	None
AC	None	None	None

 

FamilySearch has microfilm copies of the original Bishop's transcripts and/or parish registers for all three churches (above).

Poor Law Unions

Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate records with indexes are available for Hawkshead Parish

Go to the Lancashire Probate Records and follow the step by step instructions to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction and search the records.

Taxation

• 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Hawkshead. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692. Also includes Graythwaite.

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