Quernmore, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Quernmore is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1836 from Lancaster St Mary Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Quernmoor, Quernmoore

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1856

Nonconformists include: Quaker, Independent Methodist and Roman Catholic.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

QUERNMOOR, a township-chapelry in Lancaster parish, Lancashire; 3 miles ESE of Lancaster r. station. Post-town, Lancaster. Acres, 6,593. Real property, £5,611. Pop., 563. Houses, 104. Q. Park and most of the land belong to W. J. Garnett, Esq. Escowbeck Hall is the seat of J. Greg, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £170. Patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The church was rebuilt in 1861, at a cost of £3,000; and is in the decorated English style, with a tower. There are a Quakers’ chapel and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Lancashire, Quernmore

England, Lancashire, Quernmoor – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Burials in the burial ground of the Society of Friends at Quernmoore

Monumental inscriptions of Quernmore Methodist church
Author: Lancaster Family History Group

Monumental inscriptions of St Peter’s Church, Quernmore
Author: Lancaster Family History Group

England, Lancashire, Quernmoor – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Quernmore, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lancashire, Quernmoor – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Overton, 1678-1840
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Overton (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Poulton-le-Sands (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Quernmoor (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Skerton (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Stalmine (Lancashire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Lancaster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Amounderness
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Amounderness
  • Poor Law Union: Caton Gilbert Union
  • Hundred: Lonsdale
  • Province: York