Pennington Lancashire Family History Guide

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Pennington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire.

Alternative names: Pennington in Furness, Pennington near Ulverston

Parish church: St Michael and All Angels

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1613
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1689

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PENNINGTON, a parish in Ulverston district, Lancashire; near the Furness railway, 1¾ mile WSW of Ulverston. It has a post-office under Ulverston.

Acres, 2,767. Real property, £18,436; of which £7,500 are in mines, and £2,732 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 489; in 1861, 879. Houses, 163. The increase of pop. arose from extension of mining operations. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Pennington family. Iron ore is very largely mined.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £260. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church was rebuilt in 1825.

There is a parochial school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

St Michael Pennington in Furness Parish Registers 1612 to 1702

St Michael Pennington in Furness Parish Registers 1612 to 1702. Lancashire Parish Register Society : [publications] : Lancashire Parish Register Society : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lancashire, Pennington (near Ulverston) – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Pennington, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lancashire, Pennington (near Ulverston) – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Pennington, near Ulverston, 1689-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Pennington (near Ulverston, Lancashire)

Church records, 1863-1906
Author: Primitive Methodist Church (Barrow, Lancashire)

Furness registers
Author: Lancashire Parish Register Society

Parish register transcripts, 1695-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Pennington (near Ulverston, Lancashire)

The registers of St. Michael’s, Pennington in Furness, in the County of Lancaster
Author: Brierley, Henry, 1846-1933; Arrowsmith, Josiah; Dickinson, Robert; Dickinson, Florence; Turner, Mabs

England, Lancashire, Pennington (near Ulverston) – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish printout of Pennington in Furness, Lancashire, England

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Ulverstone
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Furness
  • Diocese: Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Furness and Cartmel
  • Poor Law Union: Ulverston
  • Hundred: Lonsdale
  • Province: York